Congratulations! I hope this is how it is from now until forever.

kathy

I may be sort of blubbery today but your blog made me a little teary-eyed. You just jumped back in with both feet, both arms and all your heart. And you're now a biker chick to boot! I love that new bike. And the new beau. You're a poster gal for this surgery, even after the horrendous complications you went through. Thank you for blogging about the very most excellent outcome (ahem)!

kathy

Congrats!!! Sleep is def. not over rated! I wake up once a night down from about 3 so feel good about that too. Just hate that I have to do so much, use bidet etc... and then bam wide awake!

PS I just read your update on your blog!!! Thanks for sharing, very inspiring. I have the same scars! Thankful for laparoscopic surgery.

oh boot, you're my most favorite j-poucher... Step 2 in five days and feeling a lot less nervous now Yay for sleeping through the night!!

Congratulations. You're one up on me

Congrats! I'm still trying to achieve that one. Between having two kids, then dealing with UC, then a jpouch, I haven't slept through the night in 12 years!

I have to agree with the others, your blog is so inspiring! I hope you continue to have great success (I've been following your story a bit from HW's UC forum. I'm glad you've left the evil disease behind you).

Congratulations! I loved reading your Blog and am so happy for you.

Everyone should read it as you've really been through the ringer and now everything is terrific!

Really happy for you bootstrap! And, love your new bike. I can't wait for the day when even I can sleep through the night!!

Glad to hear you're doing well. You had one heck of a battle with takedown!

I'm going on 10 months as of Friday since my
first surgery. I did a four day ride on my MC
(Yamaha WR250R) two weeks ago down to the
southern Sierras into the Sequoia Ntl Forest
and back to Santa Cruz with no problems.

Next week a ride up to Rio Nido on the Russian
river for two days.

Just focus on the good!

Did you already have surgery two as well, or are you still in between steps? When you were talking about your rides, I got excited that maybe you were a local for a second, and then I saw how far away Santa Cruz is. (I'm on the exact opposite end of the bay area.) Yeah I'm really stoked about going on some shorter trips with my new bike but have to replace the tires first.

I think both of you had surgery with Dr. Varma. You're both great advertisements for her skill. Very awesome.

kathy

Yeah, Dr. Varma certainly knows what she's doing.

I had my 2nd step done back on Aug 28th last
year. In and out of UCSF in four days. I was
back on the bike again and riding by the end
of October.

Things have returned to normal so much that I
hardly even think about it any more. I can
get out and do more now than I could attempt
with UC.

Yeah! I've been sleeping through the night for some time now, too. It's so wonderful to finally hit that point. Enjoy! I also echo Srf1's sentiments...hardly know I've been through what I've been through at this point. I have my routine with fiber capsules and pepto. Life IS good!

Lol, maybe reading this post a week ago gave me some good luck. I have slept through the night the past 5 nights! First time since takedown 2.5 years ago! I hope it lasts....I haven't done anything different!

Oh Marianne, that's so great! I hope it sticks!!

Srf1, that's awesome. If your name is referring to surfing, that's something I've been wanting to do for a long time, too. Hoping to learn this summer!

Thanks for all the support and kind words, everyone. You are all so sweet. I knew you'd understand.

Kathy, thanks for always being so supportive - it was you and Marianne that helped get me through it.

Liz, glad to hear you're hanging in there.

Congratulations Marianne!

You guys are all great examples for everybody! Things we use to take for granted, like sleeping for example, are appreciated now.