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A colectomy

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 […]

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At first

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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