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I had to wait over ten month's before I could get a reversal, I had gained a lot of weght waiting also. I wont ever say the reversal surgery was easy but it was nothing compared to what I went through getting the stoma and living with the bag. I missed my life with my youngest son and my daughter had recently died before this surgery. I spent a lot of time in the hospital with the first surgery as I got Sepsis and thank God my husband took me to a better hospital. I met a surgeon who promised me he would reverse this but told me I would have to wait until Christmas, but he did the reversal in October and gave me instructions on how to live a normal life. I have had no trouble with BM as I take stool softeners everyday and will the rest of my life. I also learned to cleanse my liver by putting a half of a lemon in a glass every morning and mixing the lemon with water and it is better if it is warm, but you can also do it cold and add stevia or what I use is Truvia and it taste really good. I never had any accidents not even in the hospital after surgery, everything worked fine, I just had to make myself get up and walk and the more I walked the easier my life got. I will never say any of this was easy as I wanted to give up several time's but I have one adopted child I Pray to God that I can live to raise so therfore I wanted all the answers to live as normal of a life as I can. I am slowly working on buliding my stomach muscles back as close as I can get them to normal as anyone with this surgery is high risk for a hernia. I found for me that taking Phillips every day helps me live a better life and it caues no pain to take it. I Just have to fight the mental battle of making myself walk and doing the other things seems normal now and I dont feel sick anymore and I am even planning a White Water Rafting and skiline vacation for the summer. I already bought the tickets as no way did I go through all of this and then say I give up when I really feel good. Plus for me the bag was something I didnt want to live with, it was killing me emotionally and I will keep fighting and it does get easier every day I fight. I can eat anything I want too, but I did cut out all red meat and I do eat chicken, turkey and ground turkey for Chili or whateve and fish, fruit, Yogurt and plenty of vegies everyday and oatmeal is another food I eat, I just try and stay away from sugar's and carbs the best I can and I know by this summer I will be a close to how I use to feel as no way will I give up after this long fight. I wish any one of you all the best and I also heard the same stories about not getting a Reversal but I didnt have cancer and it was Diverticulitus. I hope anyone out there that has had what I did follows there Doctors instructions as I had the best surgeon to do this reversal in Atlanta. So I feel so very Blessed. I wish you all the best of luck. Love JennyW