On my feet again

Hello my friends and family!

My belly currently, you can only see two of the incisions, the third is much lower.... not a bad looking abdomen

 Sorry, for the blog silence, but I needed a little more time to regain muscle strength in order to sit up and type a blog entry. Well, as today is Saturday, I believe it is time to celebrate that currently there is no evidence of Crohn's in my body! The stricture is removed! Like the boy said, on his previous update, the surgery went well. My wonderful surgeon was able to perform the surgery laproscopically and he was able to remove the stricture. Upon opening me up, they found a little bit more of the small intestine was involved and a small fistula in the colon. He cut until there was healthy tissue and sewed up the fistula. For those of you wondering, I now have 3 small incisions. Here's a picture of them from today.

After surgery, my pain was quite intense. My saving grace came in the form of IV pain medicine and an abdominal binder. I was remarking last night, that this abdominal pain has changed my tune on a few things. I used to not really like injections, but compared to my belly pain, the heparin shots q 8 hours are nothing. But as the day went on yesterday, my pain was less and less....and now I am on oral pain pills. I also went for 3 small walks yesterday and got my catheter removed (rejoice).

So, all in all, things are going well. Now we are just waiting for my belly to regain strength and movement. As soon as I pass gas, we can try to eat a regular diet. 24 hours on a regular diet--and I'm cut lose from the hospital. Without a full diet, it's amazing how wonderful small things can taste. I seriously had the best strawberry jello yesterday! 

That's it from here. Here's another picture of me..... in a dad designed hospital gown...sitting pretty. 

Thanks for checking in!