I very recently went in for surgery to remove my colostomy, my rectal cancer tumor, my gallbladder, and also three hernias. The surgery didn't go as planned because the radiation removed some of the tumor but turned the rest hard as wood, and he couldn't safely remove it without damaging my rectum. Long story short, everything from my large intestine on down got removed. I woke with an ileostomy, and the surgeon repeatedly apologized that he couldn't put me back together. I was unaware they had stitched my butt together for three days while in the hospital.
They didn't offer me a wound nurse; I didn't even know that was a thing until a couple of days ago. The front side of me healed pretty quickly, stoma included, but my bottom, not so much. When I last saw him, I told him it was leaking way too much, but for some reason, it doesn't leak when standing up, so he didn't notice. Now I'm lying here in bed, turned a flexible flashlight into a mirror, and can see the outer layer of skin is open and not connected, and there are two holes that will spew drainage.