HealingWell
Search Close Search
☰

Surgery - Great decision I made.

Support Forums
>
Ulcerative Colitis
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply
1 2
❬ ❬ Previous Thread |Next Thread ❭ ❭
Posted 8/15/2012 11:08 PM (GMT 0)
Brain,

I am so glad that you are recovering. It should only get better.

I have told this story before but I remember an evening about a month post Dillon's colectomy and his friends came to collect him to go out on a Saturday night. As they were all walking down the street I could hear him laughing and laughing. I sat there crying....it had been so long since he had been in that place that laughter was coming so easily to him.

Since then it has just gotten better and better.

I am so happy for you.

Cathy
Posted 8/16/2012 1:25 AM (GMT 0)

Collicat said...
Brain,

I am so glad that you are recovering. It should only get better.

I have told this story before but I remember an evening about a month post Dillon's colectomy and his friends came to collect him to go out on a Saturday night. As they were all walking down the street I could hear him laughing and laughing. I sat there crying....it had been so long since he had been in that place that laughter was coming so easily to him.

Since then it has just gotten better and better.

I am so happy for you.

Cathy

Love that story! So happy for him. How old was he?
Posted 8/16/2012 12:38 PM (GMT 0)
He was 18 at the time. 21 now
Posted 8/16/2012 4:04 PM (GMT 0)
Somedude, the difference is I can eat the mikkshake in the car! :)
Posted 8/16/2012 7:59 PM (GMT 0)

Collicat said...
He was 18 at the time. 21 now


Same age.. Hope I have similar results to him.
Posted 8/16/2012 8:14 PM (GMT 0)

ssarow said...
Congrats! Very good to hear.

Is it bad that the possibility of surgery is now looming in my head just so I can have a milkshake.........

But I am definitely jealous of the milkshake. I haven't had burger, pizza, chocolate, ice cream or anything for over half a year now...gah

Please keep us updated after your takedown. It's always good to get feedback from the surgeries.

You would be surprised how big a role the potential to eat those foods played in my decision to have the surgery. I didn't want to be restricting myself for the rest of my life.
Posted 8/16/2012 8:20 PM (GMT 0)
Ssarow, no its not bad! It makes perfect sense. If you stop and think of all the things that UC has taken from you, just this week, you may realize just how much you have given up for the disease.
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply
12