Dale’s Personal Blog

Well, it’s in the diary – on September 9th, I will be heading into Southampton General Hospital again for the next phase of my GI Reengineering Project. This operation is going to be pretty much the same scale as the last one (i.e. big – 3-4 hours on the slab!), but the difference is that I am now weaned off all of those nasty steroids, so should hopefully be back in action relatively quickly from a work perspective – at least in terms of desk based activity.

For those that are interested in the gory details, it’s all about J-Pouch surgery, and if you a brave enough to follow that link, you’ll see why I refer to the whole exercise as re-engineering.

I must say that having been through the last operation, I am feeling pretty relaxed about the whole thing, apart from, perhaps, the date – I hope 9.9.9 is not some kind of omen