J-pouch Life » Family http://www.jpouch.net Stories: Ostomy, Ileostomy, Jpouch, Colitis, Crohn's, Surgery and Support Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:31:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Colston Thomas Mills http://www.jpouch.net/2010/03/27/colston-thomas-mills/ http://www.jpouch.net/2010/03/27/colston-thomas-mills/#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:30:10 +0000 Eric http://www.jpouch.net/?p=2405 Dear fellow Jpouch.net readers, hello and how are you? I know you don’t know my full story and I apologize. It’s mainly because I’m too lazy to type it all up that you haven’t seen a complete posting from me. If you’ve stuck around long enough, you’ve seen my hernia (which is still there), you know that I keep track of numbers, that I’m healthy again and like to ride bikes, and that I’m the guy behind the pouchoscopy entry on Wikipedia. But you don’t know that I spent most of 2008 in the hospital (or at least it felt like that) or the specific circumstances surrounding my bout with Ulcerative Colitis. I promise to write that all up for you soon. In the meantime, drumroll…

I’m a father!

So welcome to world baby Mills. His name is Colston Thomas Mills, born on 3/6/2010, he was 8 pounds 7 ounces (big!) and he’s perfect. Like Mark and Megan’s joke about the bowels, I have a bit of concern for the future of his colon. But, just in case you’re wondering, it’s working really well right now, and he has some fantastic pressure in both ends of his plumbing!

There was a time when I couldn’t lay on my left side because it aggravated my Colitis too much. 4, count them, FOUR years of my life I couldn’t sleep on my left side. Take that, Colitis! Here I am asleep with the little guy. Sleeping with him (on my left side!) is my new favorite activity.

I promise a full story of my Colitis, waiting too long to get it treated, surgery, and recovery. For now, though, please join me in welcoming our baby to the world.

You see, it gets better, I promise.

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]]> http://www.jpouch.net/2010/03/27/colston-thomas-mills/feed/ 4 It’s a girl! http://www.jpouch.net/2010/02/02/2323/ http://www.jpouch.net/2010/02/02/2323/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:24:25 +0000 Megan http://www.jpouch.net/?p=2323 Mark and I are thrilled to announce we are expecting a baby girl this summer!  Mark had his surgeries 2 years ago, and we wanted to share this news that after surgery life does go on. We are so excited to have Mark healthy to enjoy the birth of first child.  And for those jpoucher’s curious, we were able to conceive naturally without infertility issues (Mark is 34 years old).  Below is our ultrasound at 18 Wks that shows us a healthy girl 6″ long and she weighs 1/2 pound.  We joked at the ultrasound that it was okay if she didn’t have her colon to just get it out of the way. Oddly enough the doctor didn’t find our humor as funny! Then we explained that Mark doesn’t have his colon, blah, blah, blah and we realized how uncommon it is to not have a colon and that colon humor is just not the funny other than to likes of us!

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