Done and done! The take down was yesterday and it was amazing! Thid time around the surgery was super fast, only took an hour, as opposed to 7 for the last one. And. I was up and coherent pretty quickly this time around too, part of that might be attributed to the fact that this was a. Morning surgery, and not in the middle of the night ;). So i started walking later that day, still npo but I have all the ice chips and Popsicles my little heart desires.
So like i said they put the stoma back inside my body but turns out they didn't actually sew me up. Well not really anyway. They did sew up the muscles, but the skin layer is still an open wound and it will just have to heal and close on it's own. The nurse explained it's because stool was passing through there, and even though the stoma was stitched in place it's just asking for an infection if they were to sew it up. So right now it's packed with a sponge and covered with gauze.
Other than that i really feel pretty great. This is the first time I've been in the hospital and I'm not sick. It's almost like I'm just here for observation, for them to see how my body does. Once i pass gas i can start eating food, once i start eating and if I'm handling food well, then i get to go home. Oh man I am happy!
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