Thanks for sharing your experience. That must have been a horrible time for you. My trip to the emergency room ended up with me getting a temporary colostomy. I was in the hospital for 7 days for that. They did the reversal three months later...5 days in hospital for that. I've had two other abdominal surgeries...one to repair an incisional hernia, and I spent 3 days in the hospital for that. And finally in 2015 I had to have my gall bladder out, and of course, because of the previous surgeries, they couldn't do it laparoscopically. I was able to go home the next day.
I was diagnosed with another hernia in the lower part of my abdomen a couple of years ago. The surgeon asked me what I wanted to do about it, and I told him I really didn't want to go through any more surgeries if it wasn't necessary. He told me that wouldn't be a problem, but just to make sure that if I ever started having symptoms of a blockage, to get to the emergency room. So far, so good. I'm 73.