In my home country, in my latest visits to surgeons I heard these words: “you have nothing, you have a perfect anatomy!” Almost everyone behaved towards me as if I am exaggerating my situation and I am mentally ill. 

In 2022, I had to quit my academic position where I served as an associate professor in computer science, when my colon started bleeding non-stop day and night. William became my loving husband and joined my day and night suffering by quitting his own academic position too. 

Finding no doctor taking my situation seriously, we rushed to London, perhaps hours before I would lose my life, I am taken to series of surgeries, in order to remove the whole large intestine which includes a huge volvulus (knot), besides highest level of intussusception, enterocele, rectocele and full internal prolapse. 

I will never be recovered, as nobody grows a new colon, but I and we will be always recovering as William and I keep understanding what the word recovery refers to. Recovery is a journey, on which we have allowed ourselves to be transformed to come closer to our real selves. 

In our book Recovery, we share a fragment of our inner and outer journey.

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