Cried today because…

I am 5 days post op bowel resection, and omg I’VE NEVER FELT SO GOOD BEFORE 😭🥹❤️ seriously, it’s just so freeing after spending so long being so scared of surgery. I am ecstatic. I wish I would’ve done it way sooner. I am 17 years old, and was diagnosed when I was 6, so I mean it when I say this is quite possibly the best I’ve ever felt in my entire life. I’m just… so happy. It’s amazing to me how used to it I got to just always being in some level of background pain or nausea (from lots of scar tissue in my colon), and now it’s… gone 😭

I won’t lie, I still cry when I look at my abdomen in the mirror because the incisions have been a lot to mentally adjust to. But it’s all worth it.

Alright… now to go knock on a large piece of wood because I’m obviously still very early on and definitely not out of the woods yet 😅 (also still have to get pathology results back… which makes me quite nervous).