Hello everyone, I have a question about my fourth ostomy surgery. I have been having issues for the last year with hernias and an abdominal fistula with an abscess. I had drain tubes, CAT scans, and x-rays, and I was just hospitalized for 3 weeks to find out I am malnourished and now on TPN. I got my first surgery in 2011, so I've had a stoma for quite a while, been disconnected from my large bowel for quite a while. Now they're saying they want to remove the rest of my colon and my rectum and sew my butt shut. I'm devastated. My last colonoscopy showed to be clear, so I'm really confused on why they want to go and do that. What they are supposed to do is revise my stoma and fix the hernias. Has anybody else been through this? I really don't know what to think or how to feel.
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