Hi all
Anyone from Scotland or the UK into hill walking?
I was tentatively bagging Munros from 2022 until my op on New Year's Day 2024. I never got out walking the hills in 2024, but this summer I have started going again, and I am now on 13 climbed.
I did Beinn Chabhair on Saturday, and it really was an unlucky 13.
Plunged waist height into a bog, lost my bearings, which cost me a two-hour ...

I came across an article about Auburn's kicker, Alex McPherson, who lives with an ostomy. He opened up about how he's back on the field this spring and feeling good about his game. It's always inspiring to see athletes push forward and succeed while managing something like this.
For anyone here who enjoys sports or just likes to see positive stories, this one is worth a read. It's a good remin ...

I'm sure that you all know the game played by Winnie the Pooh and one of his friends and hundreds of children where you each drop a distinctive stick on the upstream side of a bridge across a stream, then you rush across to the downside and see whose stick comes out first, hence the winner. The name of this game is Pooh Sticks.
A less attractive version is the bowel cancer test sticks which yo ...

So after struggling with a dead bladder for multiple years and a rectum that doesn't work, I'm having the big surgery next month! I'm going to have my bottom removed and a colostomy made, as well as having my bladder removed and a urostomy formed. Needless to say, I am very nervous but also ready to get my life back. Was wondering if anyone else on here is a double bagger. Any advice would be ...

Incoming!
Entering the Mad Hatter's party room.
Mystery Chick Magnet Guy here, do you know this guy? He is a member here :)
This is how they announce/list the schedule of events, for those of you who've never attended a "Con." Real-time scheduling. Plus weather.
Self-Explained. :)
Busted! Mystery Man. I'll have what he's drinking, please.
Fireball in the sky. Pure awesome shot! Whoa!
People ...

Hey everybody! It's been a while since I posted, and I hope you all have been well! I had my ileostomy reversal on 5/22/25, and it went great. It took my digestive tract a little time to wake up, but boy, when it did, lol. Also, as a rule of thumb (since I lost 4 inches of intestines), if I feel like I need to take a bowel movement, I go straight to the bathroom. As a result, I have not dealt ...

“I CAN RESIST,” mused Oscar Wilde, “anything but temptation.” I met that same devil this past week in the otherwise innocuous form of Jelly Belly beans. Geez, they’re good! I overindulged, then paid the price. Perhaps Wilde had similarly discovered how difficult it can be to just eat a few of some delicacy. Still, he didn’t have an ileostomy. My system threw a fit. It lasted ...

So I'm still pretty new to terminology and such. Back in March of 2024, after a year of my ileostomy, I saw a surgeon at Emory. The original doctor wasn't able to create a J pouch during my surgery in January 2023. After talking with the surgeon at Emory, we both decided not to try again since my quality of life already was leaps and bounds better than when I had UC. He ended up removing the r ...

I presented information on the "whys" of food blockage, primarily for those with ileostomies, at the following link:
https://www.meetanostomate.org/discussion-forum/viewtopic.php?t=34664#275184
A comment was posted seeking information to help deal with Sjögren's dry mouth and an ostomy. To adequately address the content requires a separate, detailed response — be advised that this is a ver ...

Hi! I'm one week post colostomy takedown and thought I'd post about my experience so far, since it's been really positive. I had my colostomy 8.5 months ago due to a perforated colon from diverticulitis (my eighth or ninth attack, which is another story - I wish people knew that if you've had three or four attacks you should consider preventive surgery, but no doctor ever mentioned that to me) ...

Because I've been complaining about the number of daily emptyings (not the exchange of the bag) and the rapid transit time after eating, I chose to seek a new gastrointestinal doctor. Because he fit me into his tight schedule, there were only fifteen minutes devoted to my issues. He arranged a CT scan and also a possible colonoscopy, both next month. Though not eager for more radiation, he wan ...