While cleaning out the attic, we found the booklet I was given at the Mayo Clinic in 1979 when I had the first Kock due to non responsive UC...The copyright was 1977 and this was the second edition Forty patients were surveyed and their responses were used to write this very imformative (and it is) booklet. Jasmine remember getting it?
I thought I'd share some passages;

"Not every patient had the choice you did....Perhaps, in the future, many other patients will be able to have the internal pouch like yours. But for the present you are one of a small minority"

"Often nothing is more encouraging to patients than sharing their concerns with someone who has been down the same road and has learned to adapt..."

".....you are still having trouble passing the catheter into the pouch, the chances are that you're tense. Your ileal pouch knows it and has tightened up"

This booklet has great drawings of how the pouch and valve are constructed.

Anyone knows when Cleveland Clinic started doing Kocks?

Yes I do remember the book given to me. That is where I got the Continent Ileostomy foods list from, that I posted down below.

I just e-mailed Dr. Tremaine today, and asked him to Please reconsider doing the Kock Pouch again at the Mayo Clinic. So I am waiting for his response, he is the doctor I saw in 2001 for a check up. I was getting very ill from x workplace discrimination, harassment and retaliation. I can't go into it anymore than that. I am in litigation now infact.