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These harships we endure suck but it so nice to hear you are getting well Pops. As for the digestive issues...my surgery was nine months ago and I still take colace daily. Good luck Pops!!!!

Mashed potatoes and butter is a girl's best friend - who'd a thought? After you progress from liquids - keep eating the soft foods for a LONG time..your bowels need about eight (8)weeks to heal minimum (not "a few" sorry doc) in the meanwhile...Mashed potatoes are my heroine for weight gain ...

Thanks Leithcote for clarifying...I started out lararoscopically an then went laparotomy. Sorry for that oversight.

The compression garment keeps your abdominal tissue in place against your abdominal wall and your abdominal muscles in place symetrically. The first 3 to 4 weeks of healing is crucial when everything is healing and finding its home after it was cut and seperated. Otherwise...your abs and skin...

Hey Kimmie...I've had many epidurals (back issues and surgery). I'd take an epidural any day over morphine. I had Morphine after my resection and it is great for pain relief but after a few days of it you will bloat like an elephant. I retained 16 pounds of water:) Aweful! It came off in a...

Hi Kate, Make sure your doctor gives you a corsett..."compression garment" that you MUST wear for 3 to 4 weeks!!!! This will make your abdominal tissue adhere to the abdomen uniformly. If you don't....well you'll be seeing a plastic surgeon like me. I don't know how to explain it but my...

lyses Thanks for the welcome. Lyses..My small bowels were matted with adhesions and had to be cut/seperated ..."lysed." It's laproscopic procedure that was done before the doctor's decided to cut me open.

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Ileum and B12 The ileum is where B12 is absorbed!! If your husband is taking a "pill" form - you are wasting some money as the ileum absorbs liquids-not solids and most of the pill will pass un-utilized. Take a liquid form of B12. My proximal ileum was resected and I take the liquid 3x a...

Not Crohns, not DVT, rather a badly ruptured appendix NOT diagnosed by my primary after two visits! On the 12th day of vomiting I went to the ER after a CT scan revealed a blockage, abdominal abcess, and a collapsed colon. With open surgery I had a small bowel resection - 20cm of the proximal...