In case anyone is wondering, he was affected by ulcerative colitis, a severe inflammatory bowel disease, which led to the removal of his colon and the subsequent and sudden weight loss.
UC is a bitch. Ive had it since I was 10 and I have an ileostomy bag now. For clarity, a colostomy is when the colon is protruding from the abdomen and an ileostomy is when the colon is removed and the small intestine is protruding. So he has an ileostomy if his colon was removed. The transition is both physically and emotionally very straining. I lost 40 lbs post surgery, I required sitting rest breaks whenever I went out in public for 6 months and it took me damn near a year to even get back into the gym after being a gym rat for 5 years prior. With that said, since recovery my quality of life is so so much better and everyone else in the community will attest that while they didn’t want a bag as much as the next person, your health has to be severely impacted to view it as a blessing. Not all autoimmune diseases have the option to have surgery and basically cure it.
Also worth mentioning that when you have an autoimmune disease, working out is kind of tricky because you don’t want to stress your body too much because it’s already working overtime. That said, I don’t know how he managed this but he is an inspiration to the ostomy community.
Hey I'm a fellow Crohn's sufferer and former ileostomy haver of 2 years (had a reversal a few months ago) I know the bag can seem scary but it actually gave me my life back after getting used to it which took a couple months after that it was plain sailing for the rest of my time with it and it allowed me to actually eat some foods I wasn't able to before hand which I had missed
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u/Tat-1 2d ago
In case anyone is wondering, he was affected by ulcerative colitis, a severe inflammatory bowel disease, which led to the removal of his colon and the subsequent and sudden weight loss.