What will hopefully be my last surgery will be performed in three days.  The surgeon will be reversing my ileostomy, and I can’t stress enough how ready I am to rid myself of this bag.  I know folks live with these; however, they live with a properly-placed stoma.  During the first surgery my stoma was placed right smack dab in the middle of the only crease that runs across my abdomen.  This creates headaches for me, my wife and the Wound Care team we visit from time to time when we run out of ideas on how to resolve certain bag and gasket issues.

Anyways, New Years Eve I will have a steak dinner and not partake in any partying or drinking.  Just me, the wife and the dog.  I wasn’t advised I couldn’t drink, but since the surgeon said he needs me as healthy as possible, I figure I should simply refrain from it altogether.  Speaking of pleasing the surgeon, since December 27th I have been drinking vanilla flavored Impact – a calorie and vitamin loaded drink that comes in a juice box.  Each little juice box contains 340 calories.  The surgeon instructed me to purchase these from the hospital’s cafeteria and drink three of them a day in addition to my normal daily meals.  Hopefully, he is not fattening me up for a kill.

After weeks of recuperating indoors, and probably fattening up, I decided to return to the office with a limited capacity.  This quickly became no limits, but it was nice to knock the rust off and do some work.

Tomorrow is my last day in the office until I return from this upcoming surgery.  I will post again afterwards to share my experience – apologies in advance for any spelling errors or psychedelic ramblings.  Dilaudid is a helluva drug.  I guess I’ll sit around listening to Europe’s “The Final Countdown” until then.