These are the photos from some of the previous endoscopies just to give you an idea of what a stricture and ulcer look like.

This would be my first stricture; you can read about in detail here.

10/7/2003: About four weeks after my surgery and my stoma had closed to the size of a pinhole. The doctor had trouble getting the scope inside because it was so small.	Because the stricture was so severe and I was only four weeks out of surgery, the doctor was very cautious and only dilated my stoma partly for fear of damaging the still fragile tissue.

Second stricture you can read about here.

10/22/03: This second stricture was inevitable since the first could only be partially dilated.	This time around he was able to dilate the stoma to about the normal width.

Finally we have the fun filled Christmas stricture adventure you can read all about here.

12/28/03: This was a naughty lil stricture that developed slowly.	Ya see that big nasty white guy? That's an ulcer that most likely helped in the process of producing a stricture.
And once again here's a happy and dilated stoma.

Damnit Ang Lee, couldn’t you have picked someone besides the two hottest guys in Hollywood for yer cowboy love film?  Tom Cruise and Richard Gere woulda been perfect, or anyone British; as we all know every British man is at least bi.

Still, I’m able to get over this obvious flaw as harassing Midwesterners and the Bible Belt has proven to be almost too much fun for one person.