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Wow. I'm really sorry to hear about your health problems. I hope you make a full and speedy recovery. :cheers:
 
Zags, if it's not too intrusive, how does one live normally without a colon? I've known people with colitis, but never this severe. I really hope you're feeling better.
 
More like a Nolan Ryan 100 MPH curve ball AND a wicked Phil Niekro knuckler.

Sounds like the prognosis is good, which is great news.
 
Just be glad you're not a Christian Science flock member.
 
To lazy to GOOGLE, what does a colon do? And sorry ZAGS, you know me......... do you now have a semi-colon? GET IT?
 
Get well bro. You have youth on your side.
 
HCP said:
To lazy to GOOGLE, what does a colon do? And sorry ZAGS, you know me......... do you now have a semi-colon? GET IT?
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The colon is a pretty important piece of one's anatomy...


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Good luck, zags. Try to imagine how it could be worse, so that it isn't so bad. You could be 80, your spouse just died, you're waiting to die, then this happens. It's better to have a major health problem when you're young enough to endure it, as long as it doesn't go on the rest of your life. Well, I'm just trying to give you something positive to think about. You have a future.
 
Well, the time has come.

I go in for surgery Tuesday morning for my 4th and final surgery and I will soon be shitting like the rest of you. Its definitely been a long road and really tough year, but I feel 100%, have gained all my weight back and some. I'm anxious to get back in the gym and get back to work. Surgery should be fairly simple 1 hour surgery where they take my small intestine and hook it up to a J pouch and through the anus, so I shit like everybody else, except I go a few more times a day.

I may be an off the wall asshole around here sometimes, but I really appreciate the best wishes.

I'll have to watch the Ducks smoke the Bruins from my hospital bed on Thursday night, then I should be back terrorizing you guys by Friday afternoon and then the Blazer season is right around the corner.
 
maxiep said:
Zags, if it's not too intrusive, how does one live normally without a colon? I've known people with colitis, but never this severe. I really hope you're feeling better.
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Just like everybody else. Prior to 1980, everybody who lost their colon had to have a permanent ostomy bag. I've had a temporary one since May. Modern medicine and surgery has come a long way though. People who lose their colon today have the opportunity to live like everybody else, we just shit a few more times daily.
 
Is that how the doctors and nurses describe it?

I can picture them when they talk to you about it...
 
MickZagger said:
Well, the time has come.

I go in for surgery Tuesday morning for my 4th and final surgery and I will soon be shitting like the rest of you. Its definitely been a long road and really tough year, but I feel 100%, have gained all my weight back and some. I'm anxious to get back in the gym and get back to work. Surgery should be fairly simple 1 hour surgery where they take my small intestine and hook it up to a J pouch and through the anus, so I shit like everybody else, except I go a few more times a day.

I may be an off the wall asshole around here sometimes, but I really appreciate the best wishes.

I'll have to watch the Ducks smoke the Bruins from my hospital bed on Thursday night, then I should be back terrorizing you guys by Friday afternoon and then the Blazer season is right around the corner.
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The perfect time to be recovering! good luck man, may science be with you!
 
Good luck man! Hope the surgery goes perfectly!
 
Oh, and one other thing............................





FUCK THE DUCKS!
 
MickZagger said:
I may be an off the wall asshole around here sometimes...
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Considering your condition, I just had a nasty visual.

That said, glad you're getting back on the right track....so to speak.

Recover well, my friend!! :)
 
Best of luck with your surgery, Zags. Thanks for enlightening all of us about your condition.
 
I missed this thread the first time. Sorry to hear about what you're going through. I (supposedly) have ulcerative colitis, myself, but have been fortunate to only have to deal with one or two flare ups in my life. I also know somebody who has the pouch. He says it works great, and like you said, he just has to drop an extra deuce a day. He also gets some stomach aches every once in a while that blames on it, but who knows if he's right on that. Anyways, good luck, and maybe if the doctors are correct about me, we will be pouch brothers one day.
 
I was just thinking about you and your condition......... don't tell anybody, but I shit the bed last night! Just messin' with you brother, good luck and hope everything goes smoothly! Be careful cheering for our ducks, I'll be doing those ESPN replays so holler if you need a special look at something!
 
44Thrilla said:
I missed this thread the first time. Sorry to hear about what you're going through. I (supposedly) have ulcerative colitis, myself, but have been fortunate to only have to deal with one or two flare ups in my life. I also know somebody who has the pouch. He says it works great, and like you said, he just has to drop an extra deuce a day. He also gets some stomach aches every once in a while that blames on it, but who knows if he's right on that. Anyways, good luck, and maybe if the doctors are correct about me, we will be pouch brothers one day.
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Ulcerative Colitis is nothing to mess around with. I never really suffered for that long, but the week I did was a living hell. Are you taking any steroids to counteract those flares? Remicade and Prednisone are nasty drugs. The younger you have the surgery the better, also the longer you have the colon the higher the chance of colon cancer. Its better to have the surgery younger, rather than when you're older.

Best of luck.
 
hey, regarding that, did you take accutane? i saw a thing on TV regarding that and lawsuits.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
hey, regarding that, did you take accutane? i saw a thing on TV regarding that and lawsuits.
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I did. We're in talks right now with a lawyer from the Houston area that is putting a case together for us. They're looking for civil suits. There's been case of a guy a couple years ago an Alabama man won a $25 million dollar settlement against Roche, the manufacturer of Accutane. Also, a former Bulls cheerleader is suing that Accutance caused her depression.

Its a nasty drug. If I could go back, I would have never used it.
 
MickZagger said:
Ulcerative Colitis is nothing to mess around with. I never really suffered for that long, but the week I did was a living hell. Are you taking any steroids to counteract those flares? Remicade and Prednisone are nasty drugs. The younger you have the surgery the better, also the longer you have the colon the higher the chance of colon cancer. Its better to have the surgery younger, rather than when you're older.

Best of luck.
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First flare went away on its own. Second with the assistance of prednisone (really fucked up what that drug does to you). Luckily, that was about 8 years ago and there hasn't been any sign of it since. They put me on something called Colazol, but I didn't like it and decided to go without it. I get checked out for colon cancer once every year.
 
MickZagger said:
How bad is his colitis? Has he thought about having a colectomy?
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All I know is that he takes a ton of pills for it every day. I don't think he has thought about that.. He goes to the gastroenterologist several times a year and I don't know if he's ever suggested it.
 
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