I just had the whole colon also removed, so now small intestine hooked to my rectum. I concur on the smell. Horrible and embarassing. I try and avoid public restrooms if I can. I feel like pulling a trailer with my own porta-potty! Stools are like looking at floating blackberries at times, small pencil-like at times and sometimes like coffee grounds. For the most part I handle most foods well, but depending on what that is, depends on whether it is a continuous trot to the toilet. I haven't figured out what those are yet, but I know if I eat cooked onions and some spicy I'll pay the price and beat a path to the toilet numerous times during the night. I need to get some stock in toilet paper! Besides colon cancer (which got my dad when he was 62) diagnosed in March with surgery in March, I also have/had prostate cancer in 2007. I was diagnosed with Lynch Syndrome, but I was also exposed to Agent Orange, so kind of a double whammy.