Hey everybody, not to gross anybody out (as if we can be anymore?), but has anyone ever tried to keep their colon after surgery?! I know some people get to keep their kidney stones or gallstones, so when the time comes for me I would really like to keep this crazy colon in a jar so I can say "thanks for the memories" now and then. (Well the poor bugger isn't really to blame, it's my immune system that's wacko.) But I figure for liability reasons or whatever they'll never let me.

Christopher

Some where once I seen a picture of a guy holding his colon in a big jar . But if you had long standing IBD the colon is sent to pathology to look for any signs of cancer, and after the pathologist get done running it thru the boloney slicer there isn’t much left of it.

I didn't do that, but I was told that in my drugged stupor after having my wisdom teeth removed about five years ago, I demanded to have them back from the dentist.
My colon was sent to pathology after my surgery...might have been cool to take a quick look though.

My surgeon gave me a colored picture of mine that I proudly framed and keep in my office. My office does double at times as a guest bedroom and then I put it away. My family is used to it but well, guests do not quite understand. In fact, after my surgery my daughter wanted to make thank you cards out of the picture for me but when my friends and relatives heard about it I started getting please don't send my a card calls.
Susan

hilarious. my Mom was here for my colectomy (after sitting in the H with me for a month while the medicine team was trying their luck) and she was NUTS about seeing the damn colon! She kept saying, "ask the Dr. if there's a picture!" I thought she was crazy. But then, I was a little preoccupied with the bit of small intestine now protruding from my belly.

I meant to ask for a picture or a colon in a jar, but it slipped my mind. Oh well.

It sure would have been a cool keepsake.

That's so funny!!! Keeping it in a jar?!! I think my hubby would freak out. My parents were offered my tonsils when I had them taken out in Laos, aged 2. Mum declined....
I'd have liked to see just how bad my colon was, out of morbid curiosity. Hehehe, like the boloney slicer image

Some of us here know a person that has his colon in a jar. We met him in Vegas at UOA convention. His was name was TED. Haven't heard from him for a long time, but funny that this came up because I saw he was logged in yesterday. He did bring it to Vegas and showed it to us. Janna said she didn't want to see it. She turned around and he had it held up right if front of her face. We all thought she was going to faint.

BUDMAN

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That would be very cool. I don't know if I actually would want the colon in a jar, but now after the fact, I would have loved to have seen it - and maybe had a picture. I had my husband take pictures of me before, during and after a picture of the diseased colon would make my colection complete!