Good morning y'all. Is everyone's little buddy behaving this morning? Hmmm? I wanted to share something that cracked me up. Yesterday my son turned 12 and he has been so good with all of this bag stuff, always trying to make me feel better about it (when I first showed him, knowing I couldn't/shouldn't hide it from him), he very matter of factly looked for a minute and says profoundly "Ok. Ok, I've seen worse". Now I know good and well he never has, but it was so precious. Anyway, on to the funny part. We were watching a movie last night when ol Stuey (that's what I've named mine) decided to pipe up and say something. 🙄 My son whips his head over and looks at me, eyes agog and starts coughing loudly to create a diversion. I laughed so hard! My little bestie looking out for me as always! 😂🥰
Hey 7Dragonflies,
I was in the hospital, just had my colostomy put in. My wife was visiting. She was a little unhappy seeing me with the stoma. Suddenly the stoma lets loose.... long and loud. I jumped and exclaimed "whoa...Whoa, WHOA!" If I could.. I would've pooped my pants. I told my wife "get the nurse."
Of course....all that gas is normal. But experiencing it for the first time.. priceless.
Give your son a hug for us.
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Great support from a 12-year-old - sounds like you are a well-loved mom! So good to hear in today's world - keep up the great work with bonding and open communications! 👏👏👏
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Haaaaa! I just saw the whole thing play out and could just about hear you saying whoa just by how you wrote it! 😂🤣 Quite the introduction it made to your wife, I might add!
And I'll do it, thank you for that hug to him, he'll like it.
Thank you so much. I'm richly blessed with him, he has a heart of gold and an old soul. ❤️❤️🥰
Your son sounds like a peach! Kids are always honest and his reaction was priceless. Yes, you are lucky to have such a great kid, but something tells me that was no accident! Keep up the good work.
Terry
My son is 13 and my daughter is 12. When they were able to come visit me, my son asked multiple times while we were walking around if he could see my stoma. My daughter didn't want to look, but after he said it wasn't that bad, curiosity won and she looked too. My son is so proud he can tell people he's seen small intestine ‘outside of the body'. He was the one more interested in how everything worked, but my poor daughter always happened to be the only one home with me when something would go wrong and I'd be yelling for her to grab x, y, z. She probably knows more about changing an ileostomy than some medical professionals. Your son sounds like a really good kid 😊
Oh, your kids sound too cute! Well hey...maybe your daughter will grow up to be a nurse, seeing as how she's had so much experience. Heck, your son too for that matter. That or they'll run fast the other way, lol! It's adorable to me that they don't think differently of us, we're still mama. 💕
My colorectal surgeon said, "Hey, maybe my son will be a colorectal surgeon because he said he wanted to find a cure for what happened to me. I'm interested to see what my daughter will end up doing after I survive raising her 😆 You're right though, they see us as mom first and don't let a condition define us."