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hi! just caught your post in the other thread and wanted to come see what your story was! man that sucks, i would not be happy waking up to an ostomy. it took me years to accept the idea of the surgery. but like the others said, there are many treatment options for crohns which hopefully will...

aw guys, you are all so damn kind! thanks for bringing me smiles at 3 am hahah! :)

a few weeks after my surgery i crapped out a few little metal staples. from my butt end, not my stoma end. i wasnt really sure if they were supposed to come out or what so i stuck one between some tape and took it to my nxt surgeon check in. i held it up in the air and was like "this came out my...

oh god i have done that before!!! you spend 902485209 hours typing out a killer post and then you do something totally dumb like hit the back button. at least thats how it goes down in my world.... anyways, glad you still posted though! hmm ok well the weakness and fatuige and such may be...

LOLOLOL hahahah i totally cracked at that!!!! HAHAhahah :D

yeah i definitly hear you on this. cant say i ALWAYS remember this, i def have my pessimistic moments...or weeks...or months...LOL but really the way i see it negative always has an equally positive impact somewhere else. the neg is necessary. otherwise we would never have good OR bad and...

HAHAHAHA!!!! LOL i am cracking up!! thats hilarious.... "attacked by an earthworm" would be fabulous too. or "my goldfish got out of his tank while i was sleeping...."

yep you are totally correct about that, that having poo leak on the wound is not helpful! however there is really not too much i or the docs can do about it you know? for a while i was going all over the place trying to find somebody who could tell me how to pouch this thing. to a)dress the...

hi dusty! eh it is going ok. atm its just kind of hanging in there, not really healing but not getting worse really either? it is just at sort of a weird standstill. painwise its not too much of a bother though, so thats good. still sometimes it hurts like hell but at least its not all the time...

HAH i cracked up at the 'nam vet one, THAt would be hilarious. when people see pics of my stomach on my facebook and are like "omg what happened?!?!!?" my answer is usually shark bite or mauled by a tiger or something like that :D then they go "really?!?!" and i love it. god i love screwing...

hello wife!! :) thats awesome that your hubby is doing so well what treatment is he on? and good job to you for seeking out support for him and you as you try to help him! not all family members are so supportive and really, i always feel it is quite something when a loved one of a crohnie...

not sleepy you mean, just tired? tired of life. been there for sure. for a very long time i cried tears of exhaustion. someone would ask whats wrong and it was always "im so tired". but its the kind of tired that no amount of sleep in the world can fix, sleep just makes you more able to deal...

jerr youre amazing. your avatar, the phoenix....your experience could not be a better representation of that truth. literally, out of death comes a new life. all the love to you <3

hey! i gave the SCD a go a couple years ago and it wasnt too successful for me sorry to say. i ended up losing a massive amount of weight and jsut getting sicker, but i dont think it was all the diets fault. i think i was goin down anyway and the limited calorie intake did not help things...

whatever you decide to do, whether you offer him assistance or not. be sure to show your love for him clearly. that if he were dead, it would break his sister's heart. be SURE he knows that and feels that. its far easier to be ok with hurting yourself and/or ending your life then it is to be ok...

im pretty sure the terms "colostomy" and "ileostomy" only refer to the formation of a stoma. the "ostomy" part of that means stoma, same as in tracheostomy and urostomy. the prefix "colo" or "ileo" refers to what part of the intestinal tract the stoma is made from. the ileostomy is formed by...

but ding.....if i remember correctly....your lips are a brilliant shade of coral-y orange yes? :D

love: i LOL'd when i was changing my app today cuz i realized how much my stoma resembles Jabba the Hud. hate: my swimsuit from last year doesnt fit to well anymore (though thats a good thing) and its being a super hassle to find a new one. this thread is fun!

hey there! yeah perianal/rectal abcesses suck big time. what was the outcome of the surgery? did they drain the abcess completely? is he on antibiotics now? and is he on any other drugs for his crohns itself? it sounds like he needs them, but at the same time any sort of immunosuppresant would...

aw merr, im glad you are still with us. yeah i mean i agree that human evolution and ingenuity IS natural. but i gues i feel there has to be a line somewhere or something. something we are doing is not jiving with the rest of the planet, its not balanced and we caused that. balance IS...