The Ulcerative Colitis Vlog

Hey everybody, life is going fantastic with me and I can be discharged at any time. I just had my second soft-food meal, so I’m going to wait a couple hours to make sure my bowels are moving fine. But I already have my IV taken out, my drain taken out, my catheter taken out, my medicines prescribed and purchased, so I’m in the home stretch.

I’ll still stay in town here for a few days in case I have any problems. That way I can come back to the hospital and it’ll be easier that way. I also have some liver tests on Tuesday for my PSC (Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis), a disease I haven’t talked much about. In the coming months I’ll talk about my PSC more.

As per Saturday updates, I have another ostomy dream for you. I have at least five more of these ostomy dreams for the future as well. I’m guessing that since I no longer have an ileostomy that I will no longer have ostomy dreams. But will I have j-pouch dreams that wake me up before having to go to the bathroom? Most likely. I’ll let you know.

Keep fighting,

-Dennis

Yesterday’s Stool Count: 3 during the day, 1 during the night.

*Real ostomy dreams before waking up with a full pouch.

I walked into a small auditorium. It had a sloped floor with brown carpet. A large white board was on the front wall. Arranged were approximately five rows of seats, eight seats wide. The seats had plush, red cushions.

I sat down in the middle of auditorium. Fifteen others sat scattered around me. On the floor in front of us was a giant plastic model of a person’s internal organs. I could see the stomach and intestines and colon and rectum. A presenter walked us through the different parts of the body. He explained what colitis was and how it affects the body. He had another model that showed how j-pouch surgery works.

His models, however, were completely inaccurate. Inside the colon were several spiral shell-like structures. Live snails were also crawling around the intestines. The colon was green and was twice as large as it should’ve been. I knew that everything he said was wrong but I didn’t say anything to him.

The audience was very rude to him. Everything he said disgusted them. I knew colitis wasn’t a cool disease and wasn’t fun to talk about, but I didn’t think it needed to gross a person out, especially when these people chose to come to this lecture.

Then I woke up with a slight leak in my bag. It was too full and the adhesive wasn’t holding well. The leak wasn’t very serious, although the front of my shorts was completely soaked in near-odorless stool.