Luca Stocchi, M.D.

Mayo patient cycles 4,500 miles after ostomy surgery for Crohn's disease 

After 41 years with Crohn's disease, Moi Monroe underwent ostomy surgery at Mayo Clinic in Florida. A few years later, he cycled from Alaska to Florida, and his bag didn’t slow him down.   When Moi Monroe walked into Mayo's ostomy class, his first thought was, "What am I doing here?"   The next day, he was scheduled for surgery to remove his colon and add an ostomy, often called a "bag," to his side. At age…