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Question: I'm still considering surgery for my UC, I am still not responding to
medications and I'm almost ready to throw up my hands and go for it! As
you'll see, I've got some questions that are more detailed than in the
past, because I'm getting down to those pesky details. Like... who am I
going to hire to cut me, gut me, root around inside me, sew me back up and
send me home?
So... all you people out there with ileostomies, j-pouches, s-pouches,
w-pouches, kock pouches, whatever! Let me know...
- Where did you have your surgery? Who did the surgery?
- Did you travel to another city for the surgery, or was it local?
- If you traveled for the surgery, how did you handle the logistics of
traveling to another city for a major surgery? Did you have family members
come with you? How many times did you have to return to that hospital?
- What was the outcome of the surgery? Do you have any limitations in
your life now?
- I have heard that in some cases, the j-pouch surgery can be performed
in one step. What determines that?
Answer: I've had UC for 28 years and have just come out of a major flare. Now that
'things' have settled down, I've decided to have the colectomy with J-pouch
procedure. I will be having it sometime in July at the University of
California San Francisco. Dr. Ted Shrock will be performing the surgery.
He's done 426 of them, by his estimate. He also hopes to do mine in one step
but he's says he won't know that until he's actually 'in there.' He was
recommended to me by an anesthesiologist friend of mine who says he's one of
the most truly gifted surgeons for IBD that he's had the privelege of working
with. As far as anesthesia goes, I hope to have an epidural with a light
general. Going that route will really help with the incisional pain the first
couple of days post-op.
I will be travelling to UCSF for the surgery (I live about an hour's drive
north of San Francisco), but that won't present much of a problem as I have
immediate family who live in SF.
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