Thanks phoenix08 - throughout the years I've become used to the feeling of being - let's say "unwanted" - by my local doctors, including my original surgeon and GIs. I believe it's just a matter of them not knowing what to do with a jpouch patient. We will see how the NP works out, however, when I was working with the scheduler and mentioned my jpouch, they didn't know what one was. Granted, it was just the scheduler, but did not make me feel very confident.
I will be going in with an open mind, and will update this post when the time comes.