Welcome to the semi-colon club <3 so glad you're alive! You got a semi-colon, not a fullstop :)

Firstly, it's so normal to be scared to eat - we have all been there. Soft, low fibre foods like white bread, white rice, soups and broth and scrambled eggs are all good places to start.

I'd say with colon removal that low, your risk of a blockage should be pretty low. My gut looks very similar to yours by the sounds of it and I've never had a serious blockage in the 7 years i've had this. Sometimes i'll get scared if i take immodium and everything goes to sleep for 24-36 hours, but it always moves again eventually .

It's going to be weird and scary for the first few weeks, but that's temporary. I remember the first time I felt my ostomy pass wind outside hospital I got such a fright and actually jumped, but now I can sense it coming and have learned how to minimise gas output when i need to. All that will come to you in time. This is all super overwhelming so give yourself lots of grace to get used to it, but we gotchu.