Growing up I remember the adults in the family talking about their health ailments and bills and healthcare and taxes and finances and how this doctor is better than that doctor. I never was interested in it much, and chalked it up to adulthood. I, my friends, am finally an adult! I’ve recently used adult terms like “peri-wound […]
Read more "Adult Stuff, Timing & Experimentation"It has been five days since my last surgery. By “last” I mean “most recent in time”, and “coming after all others”. As I have mentioned before, the only cure for Ulcerative Colitis is a colectomy. I had a total colectomy which means my entire large intestine was removed. Terminologica Anatomica defines the large intestine as the combination […]
Read more "Foolishly Cocky, and the Lasts."After spending October 15th – 22nd in the hospital, I was being admitted again Monday October 27th. It took my body nearly five days to show me it wasn’t quite ready to be healthy again. It told me I needed IV steroids, not pill-form Prednisone in order to run properly. The hospital door is a revolving one. <cue […]
Read more "Hospitalization 2014 Pt. 2"Proctocolectomy (aka: Laparoscopic Total Proctocolectomy; J-Pouch Surgery). This topic had come up a couple of times in the past 8 years, but it was supposed to have been the very last angle of pursuit; the last action I would take to extinguish this terrible condition. That was the plan at least. The thought of permanently removing a functioning […]
Read more "A colectomy"The Flexible Sigmoidoscopy can be a rather unpleasant event depending on your comfort level with a device entering a part of your body where things usually exit. Additionally, unlike a colonoscopy, you are awake for this procedure – no anesthesia. Here is a nifty, little explanation from the Mayo Clinic. The doctor who performed my first […]
Read more "Sigmoidoscopy and Diagnosis"I was 26 years old in 2006 when I first spotted blood in my stool. In an effort to minimize the impact such a discovery could have on one’s mental state, I – as any healthy guy would do – chalked it up to “a big cookie ruptured something a bit.” I told no one, and carried on. Such […]
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