After my surgery I discovered that my bellybutton had been demolished, and I was devastated. You may say and I believe my mother and husband would agree with you that this was an overreaction given the circumstances. But consider for a moment, my spot.
My belly has been cut open a lot. There is nothing remotely attractive about the gigantic scar that runs down my belly. And now I have intestine sticking out too. My belly button was to me the last little thing that could remotely be considered cute and it was gone.
A couple of months ago it reappeared. Don't know how, don't even know exactly when but it was within a day or two of consoling another girl who was lamenting the loss of her bellybutton.
Don't believe me??? I'VE GOT PICTURES
1st picture was taken just weeks after my surgery, probably sometime in June. The scar is not fully healed you can see that there really is no bellybutton, just this funky line where the button used to be.
Now please observe picture two. TA-DA!!! Bellybutton is back (this picture was taken this month)
Well you may not consider it even remotely cute :) but but it a consolation to me to have it back. I've got enough battle scars.
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You're not alone! I thougt I lost my bellybutton too. It disappeared when I had my colon removed in april this year (2010). When they had to reopen me in may because of ileus, it didn't return. But a couple of months later half of it reapperead. And then - after my latest surgery in october, the construction of my J-Pouch, it's back. It's true, but I don't have pictures. But I told those of my friends, I can discuss these things with, that my bellybutton was gone. It actually was a big issue somehow. And I was glad to see it back. I'm glad you found yours too.
I've just discovered your blog tonight (it's late evening here in Denmark), and I know this is and old post, but I've been reading it for the last couple of hours, and I just wanna say thank you for expressing your thoughts so clearly and the situation so detailed (it was research in the K-Pouch procedure, that brought me here). I know to well about so much of it, some things I don't ... yet? I needed a blog like yours tonight, and luckily I found it.
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