Hello everyone-
Thought I would post and share some news. I had a CT scan, my first one since my bladder was removed because of cancer, and it came back with a great result. No cancer has come back. Woo hoo!! I believe that eating a clean diet, and cutting out gluten, dairy, and sugar has contributed to my health exponentially! Thanks to this forum and everything I have learned here I am truly grateful.
I did find out yesterday that I will need to have surgery again in the next couple of weeks. You see, after they removed my bladder, they built me a pouch out of my large intestine. They used some of my small intestine to connect the pouch to the skin next to my belly button where I feed a catheter down into it 5 times a day to empty it. It is called an Indiana reservoir. I need to have surgery on the opening in my skin, because the scar tissue is trying to cover up the opening(stoma). I am not really looking forward to surgery, but it is just a day thing. He said I probably won't have to spend the nite. That I am glad for! I believe I healed so well because of my FIR sauna blanket. It sure seemed like the minute I got that, it really sped up the healing of my incision.
Angela