All this year I've been seeing a specialist because my spinal nerves have deteriorated to the extent that my bowel is hardly working anymore. I have jumped through loads of hoops, and finally been cleared for edgecutting electrical implant not for pain relief, but to avoid having a colostomy. Not very many have been done, My GP has never even heard of this procedure, but then, I went and got another prolapse, quite a serious one, and must have this dealt with before I can move any further forward with implant. So in the next week or the week after, I am going into hospital for a open abdominal resection of the lower part of my bowel. He is going to cut a bit off, sew the ends together, sew me up, and hope for the best. I hope I dont leak, because if I were to, and that is the one fear, then he would have to do some kind of colostomy or ileostomy, and thats what I'm trying to avoid! I'll be about a week away, and 6 weeks convalescing Funny but this time last year I was away also. There cant be much more to go wrong can there?
Keep smiling.