I'm feeling pretty good overall.
Pros:
No anxiety leaving the house worrying about bathroom locations.
Able to hold BM for hours if need be.
Won't die from colon cancer.
No bloody BMs
Cons:
Gas (causes urgency which is one of the things I was trying to get rid of. If I just wait, it gurgles back into the small intestine.)
Getting up in the middle of the night for a BM.
Can't eat anything I want.
After thought, I'm still not at the place where I would recommend this surgery to someone else. That was a rough 18 months!!
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