27. December 2021

If you get a temporary colostomy to help the part heal, you may get a reversal. This is usually only done when you’ve gotten good health and recovered, about three months after you get colostomy surgery. This is usually delayed as well if you need chemotherapy, or if you didn’t recover initially. There isn’t a time limit though, and some may get it for a few years before they need to reverse this. Here, we’ll go over what that entails, and why it may be done.

12. September 2020

There are many things that can make life difficult. Lot's of people think that medical injuries or surgeries can complicate your life as to make it a burden. I am of the belief that in the short term this is a pretty true sentiment. I feel that having a stoma is really not one of those things for the long term. It is very true that like all injuries they are hard to overcome and heal in the beginning. There is sometimes lots of information to learn and lots of things to do, but for the average...

Ostomy Care · 28. August 2020

Ileostomy surgery involves the creation of a stoma that diverts the small intestine away from the removed or rested large intestine.

Ostomy Care · 28. August 2020

J-pouch surgery, also known as the proctocolectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis, is a surgical procedure aimed at treating ulcerative colitis cases whose symptoms get out of control.