I am so hopeful that you'll be scheduled soon! Large bowel obstructions aren't as common or understood, so it is certainly a little more unique of a process. I know I learned to take it day by day after having the ileostomy. Best of luck and healing in your recovery ❤

Thanks so much for your comments Robin, they made my day. :) I hope you are doing well in your own journey (assuming you're also on the ileostomy journey). xx

Did you have your reversal? How are you? Where was your hernia?

@auntieanna5144 hi hope is all well with you. So I had my reversal surgery Oct 5th hernia was on the top of the stoma area. Believe me it's been a long journey trying to get the bowels back up and running on a schedule. Not easy considering I haven't used them for over 2 years. I'm sure it will happen soon. Still not getting a full 8 hours of straight sleep and can't sleep on my side yet. Go for my check up next Monday hopefully he won't find anything else. Hopefully you are on the right track. Did you have an illiostamy done? Thinking of you. 🫂🙏

@@nancykorczynski5653 thanks for the deets ❤️! Sounds like you're making good progress. Any tips? What condition landed you the bag? I have a colostomy (perforated bowel from Chrons) with a hernia below it. It's been year. I had fluid retention (ascites) after the surgery, but they never could find a cause, though they keep looking. But at this point, it seems it has resolved because I'm almost off the meds and it's not returning. I think I conflated some diastasis recti with the fluid. So yay, I think I'll be getting my reversal 🥳. 🙏💪🙌💜💙💚💛🧡❤

@milkhoneyco.4481 so hopefully you will get to experience your reversal soon. It means freedom. Freedom from leaks and worrying about if you have enough supplies when you are out or on vacation. Infections and all kinds of other things. It means sleeping through the night. It does take awhile to get back into the real world again but I've heard it's worth it if everything goes smoothly. So back in 2018 I got really sick. No one could figure it out. Was on a couple of antibiotics which helped and then stopped working. So then I started to leak out poop in both areas which got the doctors attention. Went for CT SCAN and MRI and they found that I had a fistula and diverticulitis. So I went had it fixed or atleast I thought it was. Started to happen again . Doctor went in blind sighted and found that I had mesh put in 20 years ago when I had my hysterectomy and bladder lift. So the mesh was taken out and I ended up with an illiostamy bag so that everything could heal up. 6 months turned into 2 1/2 years with it. Nothing but problems with it from the get go. Just glad that it's finally gone. So I'm hoping that you will find relief when yours is finally done. When do you think you will get yours done? Was it put in place for something real painful ? Hope everything goes smoothly for you 🙏. My thoughts are with you..😃

your comment had me in tears. I'm so very sorry to hear about what you've gone through. There is definitely a mental toll around the ostomy, really with all aspects of it. The grief I feel is more ambiguous about what I went through, but I can only imagine the mental toll it took to go through all of that on top of losing your family. My bowel obstruction was a complication after an emergent c-section where I almost died and my baby almost didn't make it as well. I already felt like an emotional mess after, but I don't know how I would have gotten through it if my baby didn't make it. ...I'm just so sorry to hear about what you went through, my heart goes out to you. sending so much love. also re: the diarrhea - I have bouts where I have this too for days on end. I have been taking immodium in the mornings when I am not at home just so I don't run into any issues. Not sure if you're doing the same already, but it's been a life saver. xxxx

@@jessicastressica thank you so much . I so happy you and your family made it . I have been taking a probiotic and Imodium in the morning also another one in the afternoon.

Hi! I had about 7 inches resected total. 2 inches of my colon (basically my entire cecum) and 5 inches of my small intestine (terminal ileum). I was lucky to go into emergency surgery when I did, otherwise I may have lost more. Thanks for watching the video, hope it was helpful in some way!