YOU MAY NEVER HAVE READ NIETZSCHE but you understand what he meant when he said “that which does not kill us makes us stronger.” People with an ostomy can relate. They have suffered pain and the degradation of dehumanizing physical incapacity. They have been poked, prodded, punctured and, finally, cut open. Who knew you could live without a colon, a bowel, an anus? “What if there was one thing that we could do that would end all your pain?” my doctor asked of me one morning. After five months in hospital, I would have confessed to assassinating the head-of-state in order to end the pain. [Sidebar: that’s why torturing prisoners is a waste] So I signed on the line and, soon thereafter, was whisked on a gurney down the hall toward surgery and an unrevealed future I neither anticipated not understood. SPOILER ALERT: that was 1964, and I’m still waking up every morning. I may not always have a smile on my face, but I have a song in my heart. WHAT DOES NOT KILL US MAKES US STRONGER.
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