Following both step one and step two I dealt with 3 exhausting weeks of ileus, my digestive system just would not start up, NG tube, belly swelled, it was very frightening. I've spoken with a top surgeon who made clear that there was no way to know if the long ileus would happen again when repairing the hernia at the stoma site. Frankly I'm 15 years older and I don't know if I could survive another bout. I'm wondering if it might make more sense to leave the hernia alone, there's no pain, it's just a baseball size bulge in my belly.
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