Catch up

[bi_dancer13]

 I haven't written on here properly for so long now, facebook is too addictive with all its games and simple status posts etc but it also doesn't allow people to really see what it going on in peoples lives, when you have a big friends lists even using filters to view friends and family means you still end up missing what people post as it so

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delicate question

[vicki_t_veg]

what do they do after they remove the bladder?
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Re: delicate question

[bi_dancer13]

I had an operation back in March 2003, a urostomy, which is where they take part of your bowel and use it to form a small pouch/opening to the skin and to there they divert your kidneys so they just drain out into a bag on my tummy, so no bladder as such needed. It's not as common to have the op done now for neurological bladder problems caused by birth defects/disabilities such as mine now that they can do other things but is still used for people with bladder or other pelvic cancers.
The only problem being is that they could have took my bladder out when they did the urostomy in 03 but didn't as it makes it a longer and more complicated operation, if they had done (and the state my bladder was in and problems i was having definately pointed to it still being a problem after the stoma op) it would have saved me a lot of pain, time and hassle (and i would have been in better health for the op)!
I don't mind talking about any of this btw it's just a part of me and my strange body now ;-)

Re: delicate question

[vicki_t_veg]

ah, so you already have a stoma,sounds like it would have been sensible to just remove the bladder back then since you're not using it and it's just causing problems.
Hope it all goes well.