{"id":4504,"date":"2025-11-06T12:42:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eakinostomy.com\/US\/blog\/my-ken-butt-experience-by-kevin\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T12:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:47:28","slug":"my-ken-butt-experience-by-kevin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eakinostomy.com\/US\/blog\/my-ken-butt-experience-by-kevin\/","title":{"rendered":"My ‘Ken butt’ experience | by Kevin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My ‘Ken butt’ experience | by Kevin<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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In 2023, I faced my biggest challenge to date – number 8 of my surgeries but this one would change my body forever. I was going to have a proctocolectomy or a Barbie butt\/Ken butt. This meant I would be saying goodbye to a part of my body I have lived with all my life.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

When I was told I was going into surgery for an 8th<\/sup> time the nerves began again and the thoughts of what I was going to have to endure again, and more so the thoughts of the recovery. I soon began to realise this was going to be the only opportunity I would have of getting rid of the diseased part of my large bowel which was tucked up inside as I had a loop ileostomy. For years after my stoma formation and a number of further resections, I\u2019d still been dealing with pain, fatigue and other nasty symptoms at the tail end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The surgery was going to be my best chance of gaining control and potentially my life back, even if it meant that there were going to be some pretty big physical and emotional adjustments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recovery wasn\u2019t straight forward and days into having my Ken butt, I had sepsis and a nasty collection in my wound area and groin. I was taken back down to the surgical theater and had to be cleaned out and a drain fitted where they had just taken away my rectum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout my recovery it was the support of family friends even work colleagues that got me through the tougher days. Surgery as big as a proctocolectomy will challenge even the strongest but it\u2019s a journey that those who have had it done will all say it was worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some tips I would like to share with those due to have this surgery would be:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n