Do you know what a stoma is?
If not, count your blessings. You may also want to skip this series of posts.
If you do know, are you slender, with little extra body fat? Is your stoma standing straight and at attention? Then most of what I am going to say will not be necessary for your happiness and comfort.
If you are having trouble with your stoma or know someone who is, I offer this in hopes that our journey may give you some insights on your own rough road. The stoma I will be addressing is the result of the removal of the colon. People with a stoma are on a bag. It is technically called a “ileostomy” since your small intestine is labeled the ileum. You can read about it on Wikipedia is you want.
We have moved to the second stage of our journey which produced a new type of stoma. We are going through struggles on how to work with this one because it is totally different. This made me think of the lessons we learned by trial and error on the first stoma and my attempts to get help in dealing with it. Looking back I find that I either ran across answers for standard, low maintenance stomas or frustration with struggles with difficult stomas. The first I didn’t need. The second was a matter of sharing pain, not results.
The journey begins.
To be continued...
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