Aaron,
Sorry to hear you need another skin flap. I don't have a colonoscopy
but did go through urinary diversion surgery. Let me be completely honest with
you. The surgery for the urostomy was the hardest surgery I ever experienced in
my entire life. The recovery was insane! I spent 10 long hard days in the
hospital then eight weeks at home barely moving. Now that I do have it I love
it, I would recommend having a Urostomy but not going through the surgery if
you know what I mean.
We Quads go through so very much that it is insane! You could never, ever
describe what we go through physically, mentally and emotionally. I personally
would say do not go through the colonoscopy. I just feel that this test in
particular is just being prescribed like aspirin.
I am not a person that likes to go "disease hunting" or have procedures done to
look for trouble, as it were.
It's your body, you decide.
Bobbie
> On Feb 1, 2014, at 9:40 PM, Aaron Mann <aman...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm about to have flap surgery for the third time on my butt in 25 years.
> (Surgery is required due to an infection on the bone.) The plastic surgeon
> I'm seeing says that he HIGHLY recommends getting a diverting colonoscopy at
> the same time. I mean he's REALLY pushing to get this done. His reasons
> seem valid: more control over BP, no chance of mess getting on any future
> wounds. But, this is a big deal to me. I've always been told "Never go
> under the knife unless necessary". I'm not having issues bowel-wise, so...
>
> Have any of you experienced this opinion or currently have a diverted colon
> that can speak on the wisdom of voluntarily having this done.
>
> Aaron Mann
