Hello,
We wanted to check in and let you know that we've got two new bloggers on the ucstory.wordpress.com blog. We've added Jenelle, a 27 yr old female who has had step 1 of surgery, http://ucstory.wordpress.com/living-with-a-j-pouch/photos-jenelle/
and Gil a 16 yr old who has just had step 1 http://ucstory.wordpress.com/photos-gil-16yrsold/
If you are thinking about surgery for UC, you may want to check them out. Also, since this forum is for UC, please note that the MAJORITY OF UC diagnoses DO NOT have surgery - so these are the stories of extreme cases - except extreme cases that are doing well living now without UC.
Take care,
mark