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Reply to "Cured? No. Disabled? I think so."

UC is an autoimmune disease. You may get rid of a part it affects. But you still have the disease. That never goes away. And it shows it's ugly head in other forms 

Some consider what has been done a cure but the cure is individual.  I feel having my colon out definitely cured me of the problem of uc because I just flat out don't have it anymore. And comparing my life now to when I had uc I think it was "my" cure.  That's my view. As for it being a disability on its own. No way. No matter how many trips to the can (I counted 40 one day at work. 8 hours).  That was a bad day. As for an ileostomy being in the disability range. Nope. It's not. If it works and works well no Dr or surgeon will ever say you are disabled. At least mine wouldn't. I asked her just for the heck of it. She said no. 

Autoimmune disease is for life. We have to learn to live with it. The best we can. 

I've had the temporary ileo. The j pouch. (which was two years of hell) Did not work in my case. And now I have an end ileo. This is where I need to be. It's "my cure" . I don't feel disabled. I feel abled for the first time in decades.

R. 

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