AllyKat,
I'm sorry you are in the hospital and so ill. I hope whatever they are doing for your nausea is working by now. I'll look up your other post under pouchitis. Sending good thoughts your way.
Sharon, That sounds like a positive way to think of our pouches. I just refer to it as my j-pouch and didn't name it or my stoma. I referred to divorcing it above as it sounds like a quick way of explaining all of the surgeries possibly. Like, there could be a trial separation which would be to go to a temp/perm ileo and letting our pouch rest - or getting a quick divorce with removing it. There could always be some sort of counselling when it undergoes a pouch advancement to fix it. You are right - none of this is funny but sometimes I think of it and other things in my life the same way. For example, I have divorced all the narcissistic people in my life and will never consider a reconciliation. Tried that and found out they never want to get better. I'm sure there are narcissitic people out there somewhere that do really change and some that change enough. I had some hard core narcissists sucking out my emotional energy. 