Saw my colon doc recently and he says while my muscle tone is good when I engage the muscles
When not in use there is some loss of muscle tone. This is due to the 5 surgeries I had to fix the anal
fistula not the colon cancer, which did shorten my colon and the part they took out is a connector which slows thing down. It’s weird but I can feel and hear water rushing through my colon sometimes.
With the loss of muscle some gas (it I am lucky) can escape.
This summer I have had many pooping incidents… don’t know what caused it
I pooped in the supermarket, the shower (that was a definite sneak attack), in staples (this was fun I went next store to Trader Joes bathroom and was standing there trying to decide if it was better to so commando or keep the underwear on in case it happened again ….i decided to go commando and used many paper towels as I kind of diaper, got home without incident but boy did I have a rash from the paper towels , just this weekend I was using a baby wipe to make sure everything was nice and clean and my insides decided I will poop right now well I had the box of baby wipes open and it was almost empty so I pooped in the baby wipe box…..don’t think that was what huggies though they would be used for. I also had a major farting incident on the E train, I have to apologize to the nice family from the Midwest I guess, they were too pale and too polite to be New Yorkers, they were kind of in the wrong place at the wrong time but to their credit that acted like nothing happened and I was very grateful.
I would like to say things will get better but I know for a fact short of a miracle I will continue farting and pooping for many years to come…
Extra underwear and baby wipes make life a lot easier