I'm scheduled for surgery on November 5th..no longer on steroids and have been able to gain a little weight back since my hospitalization in August. I went in to my consultation with the surgeon thinking I would for sure be able to do the surgery in 2 steps but she strongly urged me to consider 3. Her reasoning was that the time between step 1 and 2 in in a 3 stage surgery allows the inflammation in the rectal area to go down which makes it easier to stitch the j-pouch into the cuff and thus results in easier healing and less chance of a leak. Also my albumin levels have been low which she said is in indication of how well/not well my wounds would heal. I trust her and see her points...but am really wanting to only have two surgeries. I'm just wondering if anyone can provide some insight as to why they may have had 2 or 3 surgeries (non-emergent situations since it's pretty much always a 3 stage surgery is you are hospitalized at the time of step 1).
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