Answer to what? The number of licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?
Nope. It's the number of days a high-output ostomate can get out of a Hollister 18113 ostomy bag! And it's eleven.
I've been endurance testing my Holly bag to see how long it would last and what the failure mode would be. This way I could be prepared while out in the wild. I wasn't surprised, but wasn't really expecting it to give up the ghost so soon. I'm pretty tough on bags, so I'd rate its performance as decent, and know not expect miracles in the future. It failed at the bottom of the bag where the plastic insert for the roll and press Velcro closure is bonded to the plastic bag. Just too many cycles by yours truly. I'd suspect someone with less frequent output, or a colostomy would see significantly longer wear time.
But what was really interesting was that after I saw where it failed I went and looked at the pile of used bags I have in my experiment box and noticed they were all showing stress at the same point my bag leaked. And most of those bags only had 3 or 4 days on them. So I learned a lot and will now use these retired bags in my color change experiment. I was looking for some volunteers and now I found them.
Guess the old adage 'nothing lasts forever' is still intact, but to be fair......what I experimented with was never supposed to in the first place. Onward with the experiments!
Tennessee Tuxedo will NOT fail!
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