@ronniek My husband had much experience in his business with various stoma patients and did not want to live with a urostomy. He is very glad that he chose this route even tho he must self catheterize 3-4 times a day. He had an initial abscess 10 days postop that ruptured and then had urine draining from his incision at this site. A trip to the ER and great doctor there speaking with clinicians at Mayo who suggested proper scans and then a trial of increasing balloon pressure of Foley catheter which controlled the leak. He had a closure of one ureter/neobladder junction which required nephrostomy tube placement and repair. He had a large incisional hernia that had to be repaired and a smaller one later on. He has had the appearance of stones on scans, but when attempts were made to remove these surgically they couldnt be found. our first 2 years after his neobladder surgery were challenging but he is not regretful. I think the worst part for him was having hiccups continuously day and night for almost 2 weeks after surgery. We remedied that once he returned home after hospitalization.