Thank you for the thoughts and well wishes.
My best high school friend developed UC at his first year of college, about age 19 and has lived with an ileostomy also. He became a good architect for a career.
Yes, I look at bitcoin with awe. I wouldn’t be able to handle the stress. It’s a bubble looking for a pop…. but I dread what could do that, also. I’m happy with the 50-bagger I pulled out at birth. I don’t want to calculate ‘what-if’.
As for Docs, I learned there are some spectacular ones, and some… well, caveat emptor. My hospitalist floor doctor ignored two days of my requests for Ibuprofen in stead of the loopy opioid I COULD have if I asked. My frustrated shift nurse was about to re-enter a third day request, but I told her not to bother because I was being discharged that day.
I’m sure the Winedoc is one of the great ones, though.