@blinken So happy to hear you are doing so well. I think your story shows how important research is in helping with our own treatments. I have been hesitant to go outside our medical facilities but the non answers continue to pile up. All my only surgeon can offer is major surgery to "fix" a partial colon block. Last week, had a CT scan (9 or 10) with Contrast. Ended up with pain of a month ago. Third time I've thought fistula might be closing. Each time, some procedure insisted upon reopened it. I ask questions about diarrhea, colon problems, etc., and receive only vague answers. Have not been referred to a colorectal\prostrate surgeon at all. Think my surgeon thinks she knows it all. So, thanks to Colleen Young, I'm going to make an appointment with a Mayo colorectal surgeon. Do you think as I see a decrease in discharge vaginally that that could be a sign of healing? Are you instructed to avoid diarrhea, which is another area my medical team sabotages over and over. Hope I am doing the right thing, but I look like a refugee from a horrible concentration camp. Think if I survive my surgeon's wide open surgery, I'd spend the rest of my life in a nursing home. Look at the damage from the hysterectomy! Take care.