Takedown complete!

did anything move yet?

You are making progress with drinking so the gas will hopefully resolve itself next. I'm sorry it hurts. Some of us have these terrible gas pains and some of us have other problems. They (the doctors) never said this entire process was more than a compromise to make in the face of getting murdered by our colons. I still believe that the jpouch, in end effect and in the long run, will make for a much better life than having UC flares.
BTW a friend just brought me calmoseptine from the States. I don't know if you can get it in the UK, but if not you will need a similar product. (nothing exists that you can't find in boots).
Wishing you a painless night..

Thanks B'D! It's ok I'm starting to feel better and the main thing is I know my pouch works.

Something amazing just happened!! I just farted for the first time in 7 months! And there was no consequence!!!

Ha ha Not just me then!!

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I think it would be fantastic to be back in the workd of A-S's, if only the numbers would decrease more quickly. Yesterday was a bit hefty for me and I had to get up 3 times in the night and then early in the morning.

I am trying to decide if I use the note the doctor gave me and stay home this week or if I brave it, pack supplies, and upload all the work stress into my head again. I am considering writing my boss an email tonight and present him with a home work plan for the week. I do 't know how to tell him that I can't do an hour on the train with no bathroom nearby and I am pretty sure he does not want to know about it. He has no right to ask and I am not required to say, and we both know that. Still I feel weird taking off all this time when Friday is a deadline I gave other people to submit articles and I have to "ghost-write" two things for other people as well. And another thing has to be re-written and I have done absolute bupkis-nada and no one could possibly understand that I've been 100% occupied with my own bottom and all that work stuff is like on a different planet.

Well I know how happy you must be feeling about not "being pregnant" anymore. Progress is great, everyday it gets better. You can't predict the little glitches like gas. They don't count as complications. I hope you are not in any more pain, that's the worst.

The real work after take-down, I think, is figureing out all these new body feelings, when it's a tiny bit full, when it is really full, when you could wait, when it's jusst gas, when it is both, etc. I am not sure what the empty feeling is. My real goal is to get to the point where I never think about it, the last time I never thought about it was the first half of 2009. I got sick in August-September 2009 and am just now ending that phase of my life. No more UC, so I can focus a bit more on diet and exercise goals.

Hey you are really luck with the incision wound being tiny. All hte pictures I've seen are tiny. Mine is big and makes a scooped-out shape of my stomache, completely different than the other side. The surgeon said that was necessary because the danger so intestinal bacteria. I am not happy about it.
You probably will go home very soon, maybe today, because everthing is going the way it should. That is the best news you could hope for. How many times per day?
Today I went to the pelvic floor center at another hospital. With a bit of perseverance,, I got an appointment tomorrow morning. At first the woman said they had nothing open until July.... and then it turned out tht the surgeons upstairs are also in charge of incontinence treatment, and they could see me tomorrow and talk about physical therapy for the sphincters. Made me feel better.
Yes, I'm taking plenty of immodium, like 6 or 7 a day, plus tincture of opium.
Today I left the house at 8 after 2 bm's, and for the next 3 hours was in the hospital, walked around, had breakfast and window shopped because nothing was open. There were 2 or 3 more bm's and plenty of toilets around. No leaks thankfully, but that is because i got myself to bathrooms even just to check. I know exactly what will happen on an hour-log train ride.
I hope you're at home now. Take it easy. It was a tiny op but still you need resting and at least 2 weeks at home to adopt to it and it to you. I was logging all the bm's and should probably do that again. Basically, I think it's normal if you don't have too much else on your mind, with all these poos all day long, makes it kind of hard to see this time as vacation. I hope you are not having any leaks.

Fantastic, isnt' it!
What are your parents feeding you? I've been mainly living on toast and matzah and tea. Once I had spaghetti with cottage cheese, another time scrambled eggs, once lamb roast and potatoes, and sushi but asdie from that, toast. Oh right, and a bowl of mixed yoghurt, applesauce, banana and psyllium husk - I really recommend the last one. Don't rush the appetite, that's what I mean that if I only feel like toast than that's all I eat. A glass of red wine hasn't hurt at all either.

Are you going to dress renaissance too? So the food is basically big meat and drinking? It sounds like fun and good music.

That really sounds like fun!

Why question a good thing?
Sorry about a scary thing happening with the bleeding wound but sounds like it is under control and will be fine.
I envy you, you are making amaying progress in just one week! How many times do you get up in the night? Is it getting thick with immodim?
It might just be that today you didn't have to go a lot and tomorrow will be more, and it all averages out to some number which is what will decrease.
I have gone 8 times already today. Good thing is, yesterday and today I walked to the clinic and back and there were no leakages.
I have six appointments for butt physio therapy and today this other doctor confirmed that my muscle is fine.

Some of us have it sooooooooooo easy! (you)