In a nutshell I have severe Diverticulosis that turns into Severe Diverticulitis every week or so, so that they understand what it means is, that my intestines and colon are riddled with holes and abscesses, and it's genetic. When I have an "attack" every few weeks, an abscess bursts and infects my entire abdominal cavity. The pain is incredible and severe enough to keel a grown man over in the fetal position rendering them incapable of doing anything until heavy antibiotics are introduced for a week via IV in the hospital, along with heavy doses of morphine. The only cure for me is to actually remove my s colon, and my main colon which they intend to do, but I am on a surgical wait list for god knows how long, and I have other complications like a short intestine, which will make repair difficult because they have to cut all the arteries to work a re-connection back together which a real chance of bleed out. I keep pushing myself to survive until the damn surgery and keep moving forward best I can right now. It literally kicks the **** out of me each time I end up in the hospital and can take a week afterwards of the antibiotics to get somewhat strong again. Sucks, but that's life at the moment, meantime, when not sick in the hosp I'm setting stuff up. Sometimes I get lucky and get away with no attacks in a few months, but recently they've been pretty frequent. Knowing so I've put together a contingency plan for the boat shop should I head back in, builds will still be on time
Doc assures me I won't need a colostomy bag at all, but if I wake up after surgery with one, doc's going fishing with me, and I'm bringing the crab traps lol.
Best way I know to describe how bad this stuff sucks.
Hopefully none of you ever have to go through that.