Ppl that get it.

[lady in waiting]

First of all let me say that in no way shape or form want to say anything hurtful. I just need someone to understand what I'm feeling. I'm so overjoyed that I'm lol, and crying. It was a year ago today that I had my ostomy reversed. In this year I have experienced things I never thought I would. For me it was a hard, and long process to except the bag. In the past year I have had to adjust to not having one. The recovery process was hard, and long. You redefine your definition of pain after going threw something like this. It's also a process of waking up everyday, and just being thankful. I mean to go from being woken up because your bag had popped, to being woken up because you have to RUN to the bathroom, to sleeping threw the night. Or even in December I laid on my stomach. Now almost every night I lay on my stomach for a while. I couldn't lay on my stomach with the bag because I would pop it. So now I lay on my tummy, and I'm just thankful. Or when I packed for my first trip after my reversal I cried cause I didn't have to pack bags. I don't have to worry about going to the E.R. , and getting a doctor that has no clue how to handle a person with an ostomy.

There is just so much that I have experienced in this past year. I never even thought I could be reversed. The doctors had given up hope of that. Now the doctors say things look so good I should never need another bag. I have wonderful friends, but no one that KNOWS what I am going threw. Or that understands what not having a bag for this past year has meant to me. Or that the first year is recovery and, that even though everything is 100 percent fixed I'm going to be able to start living my life again. Everything is just still so new. I have been crying for 40 mins, and I can't even explain all the reasons why. I just knew that someone here would get it, and today I need someone to get it.

Thank you, and God Bless,

Cristy~