A few post surgery ?'s

Hi all, it's needy lil me again =) I have a few questions that I hope are not foolish......
A quick update on my girl, she seen her specialist Wednesday. He agreed that she should stay out of school for another 7-10 days then see him for a follow up on the 11th. However, as I said before she is very anxious to get back to her life and was able to talk him into letting her start half days on Monday, as tolerated. If that goes well she can resume full days on the 12th after seeing him the 11th. In the mean time, he said she needs to use a wheelchair at school due to the amount of walking. The blood loss is a bigger concern, I guess. Cross your fingers that her first day will go well. His final count was 1 & 1/2 ft they removed. As I said before her blood work didn't show active disease.

So my question's are:

-How do they differentiate between active and inactive disease? Does that mean she is in remission?

-She has been having bowel movements again and it's diarrhea, does that ever subside or is it from surgery and will get better?

-She should continue avoiding foods that bothered her before, right? And those that are harder to digest?

Hope everyone's doing as well as they can!

Hi lil- Momma The blood tells if the body is going into a fighting mode I guess is one way to put it. Alot of people have D at first until things get improved .I'd go easy on the digestive track for awhile and still do,I stay away from foods that bother me. See Sierra is going back to school .Wishing her all the best on her first day back . lol gail

Yes it is normal to have D after surgery for a while, how long will depend on Sierra and how her healing goes and what she eats. I too would recommend she stay away from foods that bothered her in the past for a while. Gradually, as she feels better, she can try a small amount of something and see how it goes. I would do this on maybe a Friday afternoon, when the ramifications won't cause too much disruption to her school work, if you know what I mean. I have been known to have a salad on a Friday night when I was really craving one, knowing that I would pay for it on Saturday, but I didn't have any place I had to go, so it was worth it to me to satisfy my craving. If her blood work is looking good then most likely she doesn't have active disease going on. This is something that as she gets older she will be able to get more of a handle on herself. Basically. just knowing when things don't feel "right".

I'm so glad that she is on the mend and on her way to feeling better.