It was a relief to me the day that I felt well enough to attempt to finish college. Seven years of battling Crohn’s Disease, a chronic inflammatory disease of the digestive tract, had literally thrown me to the floor writhing in pain enough times to brand my record with an academic dismissal, yet I brushed ...
These three words bring up frightening images and dread in many people who know very little about them. I hope I can give you a little new information on this subject that will help you understand what an ostomy is and why it may be needed. An ostomy is a surgical opening that is created ...
What Are Ostomies? An ostomy is a surgically made opening into the body to create a stoma. Someone that has an ostomy may have one because they were born with a birth defect or they may have one due to an illness that necessitated the removal of an organ such as the colon, parts of ...
The relief Sarah, 25, felt after a surgeon removed her colon and she began to recover from the devastating effects of ulcerative colitis turned out to be short-lived. Not quite a year later, she developed pouchitis. She began to experience many of the symptoms she’d had before surgery. Overview According to Chicago’s Rush University Medical ...
Writing this is very difficult for me emotionally. But I want to share my story with you because I felt that I would never be able to lead a normal life after I was told that I had Ulcerative Colitis. I want to share this story so that others who suffer from these diseases know ...
Sometimes treatment for Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and familial adenomatous polyposis involves removing all or part of the intestines. Ostomy surgery has actually been around since the 1700’s and has been greatly improved upon. When the intestines have to be removed, the body needs a new way for stool or feces to leave the body, ...
