J-pouch Life » recovery 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 I suck at being sick http://www.jpouch.net/2010/09/12/suck-sick/ http://www.jpouch.net/2010/09/12/suck-sick/#comments Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:03:25 +0000 Jackie Z. http://www.jpouch.net/?p=2534 Omg you guys, I’m dying. Ok I’m not dying its a tad dramatic but I’m not recovery very gracefully. First of all, you should go read about my disaster of a surgery #2. Long story short….I didn’t get it, what I did get was the 6-8 weeks of recovery. Awesome. Also what i have gotten in the last day is CRAZY back pain, and also narcotics withdrawal. Yea.  So lets talk about that. I seriously felt like I was in the Basket Ball Diaries last night. Ok that was dramatic. But I was a mess of excessive burning up and freezing cold at the same time. How is that even possible. I had uncontrollable arm spasms, and crazy insomnia. Dude I even chugged some cough syrup to try to catch some Zzzs but it didn’t happen. Withdrawal trumps NyQuil?  I have been chowin down my pain pills like woa because this one has been super sucky in the pain department.  Normally as the pain subsides I taper my own pain pills, this time all of a sudden yesterday morning I work up and it just stopped. Like amazing. So like a moron, I didn’t think and just went on with my day….no pills. Jesus did I pay for it. Last night was easily one of the worse nights of my life…Has anyone else done this? Or am I the only sucky drug addict?

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]]> http://www.jpouch.net/2010/09/12/suck-sick/feed/ 24 Happy Thoughts 101 http://www.jpouch.net/2009/07/23/happy-thoughts-101/ http://www.jpouch.net/2009/07/23/happy-thoughts-101/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:58:26 +0000 Brevin http://www.jpouch.net/?p=2097 This is really cool. 10 days post takedown-surgery. 5 days post hospital-discharge. Hiking a 3 mile trail with no bathroom in sight.

trailThis blows my mind, since I could not have done this prior to having a J-Pouch. My current level of energy is amazing. I don’t feel drained and exhausted anymore, so I’m pretty excited about feeling a quality of life I’ve long since forgotten.

Thank you everyone for your amazing support and I feel so blessed for being able to share this huge overhaul in my life. I can’t wait to see what I’m capable of when I’m done with recovery.

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]]> http://www.jpouch.net/2009/07/23/happy-thoughts-101/feed/ 15 This time last year http://www.jpouch.net/2008/05/23/testing-2/ http://www.jpouch.net/2008/05/23/testing-2/#comments Fri, 23 May 2008 00:28:03 +0000 Mark http://ucstory.wordpress.com/?p=67 This time Megan was preparing for a conference presentation at a yearly conference for her work.  At the same time, we were preparing to go and visit the GI, to make the final decision for surgery.  My last chance medicine had failed, Humira, and I was either to live unhealthy and predinsone dependent or agree to the surgery. 

This time this year, we are going to the same conference just one year later. We are going to Mexico for the conference, she is preparing for presentation, and I am going with her. After she is done with work, we are taking a vacation and spending 3 days relaxing on the beach in Mexico. 

How good things have changed!

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