I Don’t Have A Colon! Nadia’s Series of Rants Part 1
April 17, 2010Does it ever just hit you, out of the blue, the sudden realization that you are missing body parts or how this illness has effected you?? Sometimes randomly, I will get struck with the thought that I don’t have a colon or a rectum. I will never have a solid bowel movement. I have Crohn’s Colitis. I’m sick, and I will be forever–(unless there’s a cure, but even still, I can’t get my colon back) This video is my rant on how it strikes me. Sometimes I think that these realizations hit me because I’m still in the process of understanding the impact of everything that has happened to me. I’m ‘digesting’ it all very slowly because the profound magnitude of what I have gone through in my life is too much to take in at one time.
“Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.” ~William Throsby Bridges
Nadia
QUESTION: DOES IT EVER STRIKE YOU, AT ODD MOMENTS, HOW SICK YOU ARE OR WHAT THIS ILLNESS HAS DONE TO YOU?
Great philosophy of life nadia <3
(Answer to the question above.)
Yes, it has struck me at odd times about what this illness has done to me. Before I was sick I was an adventurous and outgoing. Now I live like a shut-in cut off from doing anything.
If you have your crohn’s colitis and you have an ostomy that means you no longer have a colon, which means you no longer have crohn’s and so are no longer sick? Or has it spread?
I have Crohn’s colitis which means they couldnt definitively say one way or another. I still have some ulcers in my upper GI and small intestine. Unfortunately my J-Pouch is also full of ulcers, so the disease is spreading. It would have been nice if they would have removed my colon and all my disease would have gone with it.. I wasn’t so lucky. Everybody is different, some are worse than others, some are better, and no matter what, it sucks either way… Take good care, thanks for the question.