After only 4 weeks after a major abdominal surgery, I have finally returned to work. Granted, I am still healing and can't take the stairs or walk as fast as I normally do, but it's a start.
As for the healing, I had the stitches removed last week and the scar is healing OK. I still have a 12 inch scar running down my chest (looks like a zipper) along with other smaller scars where the drains were put into my chest and abdomen. The main problem I am having now is getting my colon to start functioning properly again. After not being used for 9 months, it got lazy and now has to relearn how to do its job. At first this meant having to go the bathroom about 10-15 times a day, with a lot of diarrea. Things are much better now. I am down to about 6-8 trips a day to the loo and the diarrea is getting better. This seems to be normal for ostomy reversals, but I am hoping that it doesn't last too much longer.
On another note, we will be taking our first airplane trip in quite a while at the end of this month. We will be going to Phoenix, AZ. I will be attending a FileMaker Pro Developers Conference and Roni will come for a couple of days. We hope to drive to Tucson to visit Marisa Allen and her brother Josh (another cancer fighter). I'm not looking forward to the heat, but it should be a great trip otherwise.
Well, that's about it for now. Will post more later.
Kevin
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