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[Ratticis]

Howdy.
As some of you may know, I've had an illiostomy pretty much ever since gimpdom. While, after 2 1/2 years, 5 surgeries on it, multiple blockages resulting in puking and feeling crappy, and minus 18" of my small intestine, I've finally found a computent doctor that I have some faith in that wants to reverse the damn thing. Right now the plan is I go under the knife for the 11th time on March 16.
So I'm wondering, what am I in for afterwards? I've never had to do any sort of bowel routine before and am not really sure what to expect. So please, enlighten me.

[greybeard]

Ratticis, on Mar 7 2010, 07:08 AM, said:

Howdy.
As some of you may know, I've had an illiostomy pretty much ever since gimpdom. While, after 2 1/2 years, 5 surgeries on it, multiple blockages resulting in puking and feeling crappy, and minus 18" of my small intestine, I've finally found a computent doctor that I have some faith in that wants to reverse the damn thing. Right now the plan is I go under the knife for the 11th time on March 16.
So I'm wondering, what am I in for afterwards? I've never had to do any sort of bowel routine before and am not really sure what to expect. So please, enlighten me.

Hi Ratty,


Can't help with advice, but wish you all the best, mate.

[Edinburgh Colin]

Good luck and I hope it makes your life better. Keep the faith

[ems]

if you do have it reversed you may be able to use the coloplast peristeen system which mas made life a lot easier for me and quite a few others

[allis53ca]

im sorry ya gotta deal with this, but i cant help either..i dont have an ileostomy but ive got a colost and never had a prob with it..are your probs caused by diet or what ?...i just did some reading on them, and they found most patients probs are direct result of diet..11% of ileostomy patients in fact

[Ratticis]

Hard to say with all the damn hospital food, but those jackasses at the RAH botched the original surgery (twice) and almost killed me, then this asshole jams his finger in up to the knuckle and tears part of my intestine

[ADP-10-08-63]

keep your chin and stay positive

find a top quality medical barrister and sue the living daylights out of those doctors who have made your life the way it is

wishing you all best on the 18th and a successfull recovery

your with many thanks

[guido]

Hey Ratticis

Haven't had an illiostomy, so can't say, but if you come back to a standard SCI bowel routine (does such a things exist?!) then it's like everything else, it will take a bit of getting used to. You'll learn to regulate it with diet, water intake, exercise / standing, and maybe meds / suppositories. Anything sounds better than what you're going through. Some have it easy and others find it a bugger. Glad you have found a doctor you have confidence in anyway.

Best of luck. Re-find this thread and report back afterwards.

[Ratticis]

Surgery Monday!

[mellowgator]

Ratticis, on Mar 13 2010, 12:34 AM, said:

Surgery Monday!

i know your life has been a living hell one set back after another. at least you are still here. if you end up like the rest of us doing a standard bowell routine isn't bad at all. my routine takes 15 minutes tops. it's nothing compared to all you've been through. i'll keep you in my prayers.

[Trinity]

Hey Ratfink

Good luck with the surgery, you really don't know how much I hope it works for you..

Wishing you the speediest of recoveries

All my love n good luck/will wishes
Txxxx

[Tetracyclone]

Rattis-

Gee, all weekend to be nervous. With the rest I pray for a good outcome for you.

Pat

[Ratticis]

I'm not nervous at all, I'm anxious and excited. I have faith in this doctor. Excelent guy, plus he says I remind him of his son, so i hope he gets along with his kid

[kiwiquad]

I'm rooting for you quietly in the background Ratticis...the best of luck.
Jo'

[Ratticis]

So in less than 12 hours I should be on the operating table. The prep is brutal, but nothing compared to what i've already had to endure, and knowing there's an end in site makes it bareable.
Thanks so much for all the support and I'll be sure to let everyone know how things go. Thanks again!

[Texas Angel Ang]

Thinking about you and praying that your doctor gets along with his son

seriously... I hope this all works out for you!! You're in my prayers and thoughts.

[ClaraTaylor]

Everything crossed for you.

[Ratticis]

So in less than 3 hours I'll be cut open yet again. In the ambulance right now. Can't wait till it's over

[Ratticis]

Well vermilion doesn't know what the hell's going on (as usual). No surgery today, but they still screwed up my weekend with unnecessary prep. Probably gunna do it tommorow or Wednesday

[Ratticis]

well, what a f*@king gong show. In an ambulance going back to vermilion now. Decided that he doesn't wanna do it now until the sores on my ass heal and my bowel is a little healthier. Was sure nice of then to duck up my week though

[edlee]

WTF!!!! That's a (if you'll pardon the expression) sh*tty thing for them to do. Don't those a**holes talk to each other?

Does this guy f**k with his son's head, too?

Sorry ratso,, didn't mean to go off like that,,, but sometimes these guys piss me off. They seem completely unaware that the people they are treating have lives, too.

I guess we all have our own horror stories,,, just hate to see you going thru one, now.

By the way,,, how were you posting while in the ambulance?
ed

[E-DOG]

YO YO YO
I'm thinking of getting a colostomy.
Is this what rat-boy had?

Those who have had them say colostomy's are great.
Any opinions?

E

[Ratticis]

It wasn't the surgeon, it was the morons here giving me prep that was never ordered. My doctor here is NEVER around, always chasing his whore of a wife. The retards here just pull things out of the air again, just like when I was "nauseous" and had no upper body strength and couldn't transfer myself! All I said was my arm strength wasn't where I'd like it. Morons!
And I was posting from my BlackBerry, same as i've been doing for the last several months.

I has an illiostomy, not collostomy. Small intestine, not large. Probably easier to deal with as things would be more digested. 90% of my output is liquid! Plus they keep f*@king it up! Goddamn royal Alex 'experts'

[pistol_pete]

Jeez mate! It never seems to end for you does it.
I totally admire your ability to keep up a wicked sense of humour through all this. It's what will get you through.

Good luck with evrything Rat

[Texas Angel Ang]

so sorry you're going through all of this... your doctor is NEVER there?????

[E-DOG]

Ratticis, on Mar 15 2010, 03:20 PM, said:

My doctor here is NEVER around, always chasing his whore of a wife.

Rat-bone, yer doc's wife, is she attractive?
Would she perhaps do a beat up old paraplegic a small favor?
I really could use a little action here. But do to a paucity of funds I'm finding it rather difficult to attract the right kind of woman. Maybe if you were to have a lil' talk with her?

Thanx,
E

[Ratticis]

E, is the 'right kind of woman' the kind that leaves afterwards? Cus that's a hooker. Anyways, I doubt that bitch would do anyone a favor. She wouldn't give a dying man a BJ.

The last time I even saw my doc was 2 weeks ago and that was in the hallway when I was on the way to the shower. Haven't talked to him in 3 weeks.

[Texas Angel Ang]

Wow -- you can't change doctors????

[mellowgator]

Ratticis, on Mar 17 2010, 10:04 PM, said:

E, is the 'right kind of woman' the kind that leaves afterwards? Cus that's a hooker. Anyways, I doubt that bitch would do anyone a favor. She wouldn't give a dying man a BJ.

The last time I even saw my doc was 2 weeks ago and that was in the hallway when I was on the way to the shower. Haven't talked to him in 3 weeks.

what the heck. canada healthcare seems really lame and you seem to be falling thru the cracks. i hope you can get help. you doctor seems like a total quack.

[Ratticis]

When his head's in the game, he's good. Unfortunitly, lately it's not. The surgeon in camrose is excelent though. Apparently his soon became gimped when he was about my age. He was supposed to go to the gimplympics 4 years ago but got sick and missed out. Pretty confident HE won't abandon me.
But there are a lot of useless doctors here with a god complex (in their mind, they are all knowing). The good to shitty doctor ratio is something like 1:30