Hi! š Here I am, gearing up for yet another big surgery next week. I had easily put it out of my mind, but now itās only a few days away Iām starting to unravel a bit. Iāll be fine though! Itās just always a lot. Iām too busy and too full of energy for the downtime, but I have to do it.
Iām heading to Sydney next week to have my stoma re-done. If youāve been following me for a bit youāll know something changed with it around Christmas time and Iāve been struggling with it since then. A hernia the size of a tennis ball is behind it, and itās prolapsed. As in, itās now just lazy and I have to use heat packs and long showers to help it work.
The reason it took so long to get sorted is the amount of doctors/surgeons that discussed whether they would fix it, or move it to the other side, went on for months. Anyway, finally itās getting fixed. Itās actually quite common – to have this happen around the 5 year mark of having a stoma. And I was pretty much bang on. I wasnāt aware of this in the beginning though! So the doc says hospital for 7 days, I say 5! Weāll see how I go.
Then can it happen again? Maybe? But I now have a belt Iāll have to wear whenever Iām doing anything physical. Like in the garden, making copious beds at the Airbnb, paintingā¦ But thatās ok! I still have to live my life.
And my Crohnās is good and settled at the moment so Iām grateful Iām not unwell at the same time.
Iāll share in my Instagram stories next week if youāre interested.
