I've had my bag for almost two years. After a lengthy hospital stay for flesh-eating disease, I got sick with C. diff and ultimately toxic megacolon, which necessitated an emergency total colectomy. Therefore, I was not prepared for life with an ostomy.
Upon waking from my surgery, when I first had to empty the bag, I instinctively knelt in front of the toilet and emptied it that way. I have done so ever since. I understand some ostomates do it differently. How so?