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I'm down to just a tiny little section of my former stoma site on my abdomen now that needs to close. It's otherwise all fully healed up.

It's kind of weird now to think how I regularly shat into a bag for about 15 months whilst I had my stoma.

I've got entirely used to going to the loo via the regular method again. I don't even think about it much now.

#stoma #colostomy #colectomy #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #FormerStomaHaver #StomaReversal

I'm down to just a tiny little section of my former stoma site on my abdomen now that needs to close. It's otherwise all fully healed up.

It's kind of weird now to think how I regularly shat into a bag for about 15 months whilst I had my stoma.

I've got entirely used to going to the loo via the regular method again. I don't even think about it much now.

#stoma #colostomy #colectomy #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #FormerStomaHaver #StomaReversal

I'm down to just a tiny little section of my former stoma site on my abdomen now that needs to close. It's otherwise all fully healed up.

It's kind of weird now to think how I regularly shat into a bag for about 15 months whilst I had my stoma.

I've got entirely used to going to the loo via the regular method again. I don't even think about it much now.

#stoma #colostomy #colectomy #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #FormerStomaHaver #StomaReversal

I'm down to just a tiny little section of my former stoma site on my abdomen now that needs to close. It's otherwise all fully healed up.

It's kind of weird now to think how I regularly shat into a bag for about 15 months whilst I had my stoma.

I've got entirely used to going to the loo via the regular method again. I don't even think about it much now.

#stoma #colostomy #colectomy #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #FormerStomaHaver #StomaReversal

I'm down to just a tiny little section of my former stoma site on my abdomen now that needs to close. It's otherwise all fully healed up.

It's kind of weird now to think how I regularly shat into a bag for about 15 months whilst I had my stoma.

I've got entirely used to going to the loo via the regular method again. I don't even think about it much now.

#stoma #colostomy #colectomy #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #FormerStomaHaver #StomaReversal

For anyone interested, I'm almost entirely recovered from my stoma reversal (reversal of Hartmann's procedure, aka proctosigmoidectomy reversal) on 2023-12-27 🏥

The last thing remaining is my former stoma site.

It started off as 7 cm wide by 4 cm tall by 3 cm deep.

There's now just a tiny area that has yet to heal over.

#stoma #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #HartmannsProcedure #colostomy #colectomy

For anyone interested, I'm almost entirely recovered from my stoma reversal (reversal of Hartmann's procedure, aka proctosigmoidectomy reversal) on 2023-12-27 🏥

The last thing remaining is my former stoma site.

It started off as 7 cm wide by 4 cm tall by 3 cm deep.

There's now just a tiny area that has yet to heal over.

#stoma #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #HartmannsProcedure #colostomy #colectomy

For anyone interested, I'm almost entirely recovered from my stoma reversal (reversal of Hartmann's procedure, aka proctosigmoidectomy reversal) on 2023-12-27 🏥

The last thing remaining is my former stoma site.

It started off as 7 cm wide by 4 cm tall by 3 cm deep.

There's now just a tiny area that has yet to heal over.

#stoma #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #HartmannsProcedure #colostomy #colectomy

For anyone interested, I'm almost entirely recovered from my stoma reversal (reversal of Hartmann's procedure, aka proctosigmoidectomy reversal) on 2023-12-27 🏥

The last thing remaining is my former stoma site.

It started off as 7 cm wide by 4 cm tall by 3 cm deep.

There's now just a tiny area that has yet to heal over.

#stoma #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #HartmannsProcedure #colostomy #colectomy

For anyone interested, I'm almost entirely recovered from my stoma reversal (reversal of Hartmann's procedure, aka proctosigmoidectomy reversal) on 2023-12-27 🏥

The last thing remaining is my former stoma site.

It started off as 7 cm wide by 4 cm tall by 3 cm deep.

There's now just a tiny area that has yet to heal over.

#stoma #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #HartmannsProcedure #colostomy #colectomy

Received a letter today from the NHS surgeon who did my recent operation to reverse my stoma.

"In the course of the reversal of your Hartmann's, I removed your appendix and am pleased to say the histopathology report has shown no sinister features."

This is the first I've heard that they removed my appendix!

I guess at least I can't get appendicitis now 🤣

#ProctoSigmoidEctomy #HartmannsProcedure #stoma

Received a letter today from the NHS surgeon who did my recent operation to reverse my stoma.

"In the course of the reversal of your Hartmann's, I removed your appendix and am pleased to say the histopathology report has shown no sinister features."

This is the first I've heard that they removed my appendix!

I guess at least I can't get appendicitis now 🤣

#ProctoSigmoidEctomy #HartmannsProcedure #stoma

Received a letter today from the NHS surgeon who did my recent operation to reverse my stoma.

"In the course of the reversal of your Hartmann's, I removed your appendix and am pleased to say the histopathology report has shown no sinister features."

This is the first I've heard that they removed my appendix!

I guess at least I can't get appendicitis now 🤣

#ProctoSigmoidEctomy #HartmannsProcedure #stoma

Received a letter today from the NHS surgeon who did my recent operation to reverse my stoma.

"In the course of the reversal of your Hartmann's, I removed your appendix and am pleased to say the histopathology report has shown no sinister features."

This is the first I've heard that they removed my appendix!

I guess at least I can't get appendicitis now 🤣

#ProctoSigmoidEctomy #HartmannsProcedure #stoma

Received a letter today from the NHS surgeon who did my recent operation to reverse my stoma.

"In the course of the reversal of your Hartmann's, I removed your appendix and am pleased to say the histopathology report has shown no sinister features."

This is the first I've heard that they removed my appendix!

I guess at least I can't get appendicitis now 🤣

#ProctoSigmoidEctomy #HartmannsProcedure #stoma

My recovery is continuing to go really well.

I've still got the dressing over the drain site and over the former stoma site (open wound that needs to close naturally), but I no longer need a dressing where the abdomen incision was made, as it's entirely knitted.

I'd honestly forgotten the joy of not having a stoma, as I can now fully pull up knickers, leggings, tights etc. without causing issues to a stoma bag 🥰

#stoma #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #colectomy #colostomy

My recovery is continuing to go really well.

I've still got the dressing over the drain site and over the former stoma site (open wound that needs to close naturally), but I no longer need a dressing where the abdomen incision was made, as it's entirely knitted.

I'd honestly forgotten the joy of not having a stoma, as I can now fully pull up knickers, leggings, tights etc. without causing issues to a stoma bag 🥰

#stoma #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #colectomy #colostomy

My recovery is continuing to go really well.

I've still got the dressing over the drain site and over the former stoma site (open wound that needs to close naturally), but I no longer need a dressing where the abdomen incision was made, as it's entirely knitted.

I'd honestly forgotten the joy of not having a stoma, as I can now fully pull up knickers, leggings, tights etc. without causing issues to a stoma bag 🥰

#stoma #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #colectomy #colostomy

My recovery is continuing to go really well.

I've still got the dressing over the drain site and over the former stoma site (open wound that needs to close naturally), but I no longer need a dressing where the abdomen incision was made, as it's entirely knitted.

I'd honestly forgotten the joy of not having a stoma, as I can now fully pull up knickers, leggings, tights etc. without causing issues to a stoma bag 🥰

#stoma #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #colectomy #colostomy

My recovery is continuing to go really well.

I've still got the dressing over the drain site and over the former stoma site (open wound that needs to close naturally), but I no longer need a dressing where the abdomen incision was made, as it's entirely knitted.

I'd honestly forgotten the joy of not having a stoma, as I can now fully pull up knickers, leggings, tights etc. without causing issues to a stoma bag 🥰

#stoma #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #colectomy #colostomy

I'm probably going to be posting regular updates about my recovery from my stoma reversal surgery (reversal of Hartmann's procedure / proctosigmoidectomy) for a while, but I'll keep it all behind content warnings.

Please do ask me anything whatsoever about it, whether you have a stoma or not 💖

#stoma #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #surgery #HartmannsProcedure #recovery #NHS #NHSEngland

I'm probably going to be posting regular updates about my recovery from my stoma reversal surgery (reversal of Hartmann's procedure / proctosigmoidectomy) for a while, but I'll keep it all behind content warnings.

Please do ask me anything whatsoever about it, whether you have a stoma or not 💖

#stoma #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #surgery #HartmannsProcedure #recovery #NHS #NHSEngland

I'm probably going to be posting regular updates about my recovery from my stoma reversal surgery (reversal of Hartmann's procedure / proctosigmoidectomy) for a while, but I'll keep it all behind content warnings.

Please do ask me anything whatsoever about it, whether you have a stoma or not 💖

#stoma #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #surgery #HartmannsProcedure #recovery #NHS #NHSEngland

I'm probably going to be posting regular updates about my recovery from my stoma reversal surgery (reversal of Hartmann's procedure / proctosigmoidectomy) for a while, but I'll keep it all behind content warnings.

Please do ask me anything whatsoever about it, whether you have a stoma or not 💖

#stoma #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #surgery #HartmannsProcedure #recovery #NHS #NHSEngland

I'm probably going to be posting regular updates about my recovery from my stoma reversal surgery (reversal of Hartmann's procedure / proctosigmoidectomy) for a while, but I'll keep it all behind content warnings.

Please do ask me anything whatsoever about it, whether you have a stoma or not 💖

#stoma #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #surgery #HartmannsProcedure #recovery #NHS #NHSEngland

For those who don't already know, I had to have an emergency proctosigmoidectomy (Hartmann's procedure) in September 2022.

I was meant to be offered a reversal surgery this September, but due to NHS waiting lists, all I was told was that it wouldn't be this year 😔

I chased them up politely and have been advised that tenuously I *might* be offered a reversal surgery sometime in January to March 2024 🥺🤞

#stoma #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #NHS #NHSEngland #colostomy #colectomy

However delicious it looks, do not consume roasted cauliflower, broccoli and onion altogether in one meal.

It is very much a trap, albeit a delicious one 😅

Very much nearly blew out my bag overnight from the gas alone, and it filled up entirely with gas and very liquidy waste this morning once I got up.

#stoma #colostomy #colectomy #ProctoSigmoidEctomy

It's still weird to my brain to remember that my poop goes into a bag attached to my lower left abdomen.

What's perhaps weirder is how quickly I adjusted to it, especially the feeling of pooping into the bag.

Still hoping that maybe, just maybe, the NHS will give me a date for a reversal attempt early in 2024, rather than keeping me waiting indefinitely.

#stoma #ostomy #ProctoSigmoidEctomy

While recovering from the emergency #proctosigmoidectomy that gave me my #stoma, I was advised that I would still pass goo / mucus balls "occasionally".

I think the doctors underestimated just how much mucus my body produces 😅

I squeeze mucus out of my rectal pouch daily, sometimes even a couple of times in a day.

On the plus side, if the NHS ever actually gets around to reversing this for me, I won't have forgotten how to use my poop muscles 🤣

#colostomy #colectomy

That feeling when your stoma is starting to prolapse, but you're not sure if it's finished pooping yet, so you're unsure whether to put on your ostomy belt yet today 😅

Put it on too late & you've got a dangly stoma that you've got to squeeze back inside.

Put it on too early & you'll possibly blow out the bag if poop gets stuck around the top of the ostomy bag.

Fun times all round 🙃

#stoma #ostomy #colostomy #colectomy #ProctoSigmoidEctomy

Such joy when your ostomy bag fails at birth bottom edges in the night, letting poop juice slowly seep through on to you & the bed sheets 😮‍💨

Love this for me 🙃

[Massive implied sarcasm, by the by.]

Fortunately this is a very, very rare occurrence, usually due to a quality control issue with a single ostomy bag in a box.

#stoma #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #colostomy #colectomy

NGL: I love that the skorts I got can be pulled up high enough to cover my ostomy bag entirely without causing any issue or discomfort 🥰

I'm not at all ashamed of my stoma in the slightest, but I realise that most folks don't exactly feel comfortable seeing a my poop bag & a bit of my gut hanging out 😅

#ostomy #stoma #colostomy #colectomy #ProctoSigmoidEctomy

CW for image: tummy & you can see the tip of my tummy scar

So, I woke up this morning with a nearly full ostomy bag. It would have been too difficult to squeeze all the contents out, so I changed the bag.

My stoma (named "Lil Bitch") has just now half-filled the new bag with "soft serve", which is difficult to get out of a bag, even if you've added some baby oil.

*shakes fist at Lil Bitch*

#ostomy #OstomyBag #colostomy #stoma #ProctoSigmoidEctomy

Still waiting to hear back from my local hospital shortly about getting booked in for a surgery to attempt reversal 🤞

While replacing my ostomy bag today, I thought I'd take a couple of quick photos from different angles to show others what it my stoma & scar look like.

#ostomy #colonostomy #ProctoSigmoidEctomy #stoma

Me: *changes my full ostomy bag*

My stoma (Lil Bitch): "That's a lovely fresh bag you've got there. It would be a shame if someone were to immediately soil it."

Me: "Fuck you, Lil Bitch!!!"

#stoma #ostomy #colostomy #HartmannsProcedure #proctosigmoidectomy