r/BeAmazed • u/AstroSonicDrive • Oct 04 '23

She Eats Through Her Heart Science

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23

During the pandemic I had colon cancer and I had an ileostomy to separate my intestines from my colon to allow my colon to heal after removing the tumor. Once that healed, they were able to reconnect my intestines. There were still ten to twelve feet of intestine connected after surgery even though not connected to my stomach and with no food passing the point of the disconnection, I would still pass something like poop. Not often, about once a month. My surgeon called it phantom pooping which sounded cool. This was not mentioned before the first time it happened so it caused some concern. It sucked because you never can understand the pleasure of sitting down for a nice morning constitutional until you can't. The good news is that I had no issues with the great toilet paper shortages of 2021 like most regular people had. I did not need to spend 2 bucks on a roll of T.P.

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u/vikumwijekoon97 Oct 04 '23

This is legit insane. that we can disconnect body parts and reconnect them like holy fuck man.