Well seems this girl has totally dropped the ball after I stopped preventative chemo treatment....my excuse.....I just wanted some sort of normalcy in my life....and seemed determined to get it...

This last blog was November 2015 and my reversal surgery was in April 19th of 2016 ...it seemed that day would never come as in the earlier part of 2016 I had to have ANOTHER procedure for diverticulitis and my healing was super slow....but in April....it was soon to be over...and little did I know....that was just the beginning for the "new me" the "you will manage" well....they didn't say....pull up your boot straps...this is going to be one hell of a ride......UGH!

So a new journey begins with a whole brand spanking new digestive system in full order....mind you I didn't say "functioning order"....and so it begins....another challenge....okay....the skinny of it....you have no rectum and your digestive system is now back to ground 0 as a babies is....slow the roll on the food intake until your body gets slowly used to everything again....seriously....NO gasey foods....you have no "bowel reserve" (rectum).....those foods will come through your system like a canon.....oh boy.....do you have ANY idea how many foods cause gas...including sugars....remember....your like a baby digesting from the beginning....Ahhh okay....well....lets just say this has been a complete education...and it was FREE!  Bahahaha.....

I came from eating 4000 calories a day...yes you read that correct while I had the colostomy bag on because what went in came out within 30 minutes and I couldn't gain weight...the blood pressure issue was also a factor. (this is recapping from surgery) so now I have to watch my intake and certainly cannot consume 4000 calories from here forward...hummm well lets see....how are we going to handle this....lets just say....it was a "shit show" for sure...and continued to be until very recent.