@stevieandthestoma: Replying to @Mia Tidy | Disability Advocate Day THREE of answering a question a day… this time, is what is #recovery like after #stoma surgery 👀💪🏼 #ostomy #hospital #operation

sharonnicholson1965 :

stevie please help me . did you have a spinal block and was awake? if so what hispital please darling. ❤️

paulabullard595 :

I have a hard time cooking for me and my husband. He is a diabetic, which is a fiber diet for him and I with my ileostomy is low fiber. 😏

Zoey ( ZoBo ) :

I Don’t know you personally but i have been and watching your journey, you are amazing I hope am as strong as you when my time comes 🥰 Am on a waiting list for my stoma, struggling to get my head around it and am so scared. I have suffered all my life with bowel problems slow transit constipation and have had an SNS device in for years but it’s not working with it so I have no other choice but to have the stoma now and I can’t keep living in pain and in and out of hospital but am so scared about everything xx

❤️Julia :

Honestly the trapped wind is bad.i was in pain too, and every so often even now.

tiger_9570 :

The food was awful, I was so happy to be out after a week. Week home and still recovering

sophiesworldxoxx :

They gave me peppermint oil tablets to take didn’t help the trapped gas but it did make my output smell like peppermint 😂

dragon :

what happened to you

Sue Nichols :

Thanks for sharing I’m having an ileostomy surgery in a couple of weeks. I’m also diabetic any ideas on what I can eat?

Chris :

The gas to issue is to walk or move as much as you can.

mister_hecker :

fourth

Misty :

Second

RH10💫 :

First

Kingsalmon1st :

sophiesworldxoxx :

I was eating strawberries in hospital no one told me I wasn’t allowed 😂 had a maccies in hospital that food from hospital is vile asf didn’t find out till my first stoma nurse visit at home that my output wasn’t supposed to be super watery like water

Mia Tidy | Disability Advocate :

That’s great to hear, I know a few people have been in for a couple of weeks afterwards so it’s nice to hear you had a pretty normal experience 🫶

shea :

how do you pee

Brian N :

My ileostomy surgery was complex and it had to change to “Open” surgery after it started and I ended up in ICU for a few days and stayed in hospital for a couple of weeks. As Stevie mentioned, I also had diet issues. I just wasn’t allowed to discharge as I had Sepsis. Overall experience and pain was ok considering. Just leave your dignity at the front door…