Reply to "Take down in a week, what does life after the stoma take down look like?"

ANDRINA-

Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I hope that mine goes as well as yours. Anxiety has become my new normal, not knowing what to expect and random attack’s. This was not anything I have experienced before.

I cannot wait to get rid of the stoma bags, they have been the hardest to deal with this past surgery. I know that the take down will at least fix that but I am hoping for no complications. I am 38 and though I am told by doctors that I am young I have had many complications.

Can I ask you how long you healed before takedown? My doctor game me six weeks, hope that is enough time, but I am feeling pressure and going to the bathroom from down there, although it’s not stool it is an off white peach like liquid.

I hope two days is all I need to stay at the hospital my normal after every surgery has been 7 days. I guess I am a slow healer, ugh so anxious to get this over with it has been absolute hell.

Jpouchinseattle

6/23/195:14 PM

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