MY INTESTINES! Yes, watch in horror as my bowels are cut open!

Taken in about 1995, I gave my surgeon my video camera and somehow convinced him to video tape my operation. The operation was to remove several diseased sections of colon/small bowel effected by my Crohn's Disease. This was actually the 2nd time my surgeon had opened me up like this and pulled a whole bunch of pieces out. I got to hold almost the entire length of my large intestines in my hands (after the surgery was complete of course).

I guess I'm a tinkerer to the end, even when it concerns my own body mechanics. I love to know how stuff works. There's one shot I particularly like where you can hear the heart monitor beeping and you can see the intestines giggle subtlety with each beep.

And I absolutely adore how they are explaining each step to ME in the first-person as the video proceeds while I'm laying there dead(ish) on the table. LOL.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• guts
• operation
• bowels
• intestines
• crohn's
• disease

[Aphroditeuf16]

You had a REALLY COOL doctor to allow this to be taped!!

[Xtv1234]

my god are you ok????

[theJiberian]

maybe they were explaining it to you through the tape so that when you watched it later, you would know exactly what they were doing. I had a appendectomy when I was 7, but my Mom refused to film it to let me see. oh well...I can just watch you tube videos of other people's surgeries

[debsie40]

@xx12thmanxx as i did too due to crohns....me bowel packed up on xmas day so was rushed in and pumped full of steriods and an operation a few days later.........now got a bag on for a few months :( can't wait for the reversal

[gavcantrellofficial]

I got them to film my crohns op too! I'm getting the dvd next month, I'll let you know when it's on here.

[YouAreABunghole]

@xx12thmanxx

1: Now I'm wondering, how much of the small intestine does one need to live?

2: How does one make fun of a disease? I've known many people and made many jokes but none of them have been about disease..

[xx12thmanxx]

@YouAreABunghole yeah it's more watery. you get issues with dehydration a lot with a colectomy. I have my entire colon out and you can live without it. these diseases like IBD, UC and crohn's suck especially since not many people understand them or make fun of them. they are serious and life threatening. I almost died of blood loss because of UC.

[decoysk]

WHATS THE HORROR ?? IF THERY CUT YOUR DICK OFF < NOW THAT WOULD BE A HORROR !

[clarity4clarity]

Ive had crohns for 15 yrs or so , luckily upto recently i hadnt had surgery but just had an exploratory laperotomy and was due to have a double ostomy but when they looked in they found there to be a lot more inflamed and looped small intestine , and too much to be able to save any , so to avoid having ALL of my small bowel removed i have to live on high ellemenatl diet for the next 6 weeks to try to bring inflammation down so i dont have to be hooked up to a TPN machine 20 hrs a day for life...

[firetree10]

i hope they put that stuff back

[YouAreABunghole]

Does having a section of the colon removed make your shit more watery and loose, making you prone to diarrhea due to the lack of osmosis back into the bloodstream?

[debsie40]

omg!!! now i know what my surgeons were doing when i was out for the count!!! wish i could have had mine video'd!! they told me what they had done but seeing it ....is believing lol hope you've made a good recovery peter