Thank you for the kind words, and for your support. I am still adapting to some of the changes, particularly irregularity, but I am brainstorming with my committee of one (lol), trying a new probiotic, making sure I move even more than before, and appreciate my high tech bidet, which helps the process considerably.
I'm going back on October 27 to have the stent on my bile duct removed. It's a different surgeon, because I'm back home, but he seems great. I was advised that I've been through the worst. If there is a bile leak after removing the stent, he will but a bigger one in and allow everything to heal. Lasty, I am ETERNALLY grateful to have experienced such great care from our Canadian healthcare system over the past 57 years. 19 surgeries between the ages of 18 months and 12 years, and the only cost to my parents was bringing me comic books to read. My recent hospital stay was nine days, and I didn't have to file an insurance claim or pay a single dime out of pocket.