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I'm not sure about this thread now. I am very disappointed at... The title... it has completely changed due to (whispering... A.I.). Yep, I feel like a victim of that.
I think I was offering advice to everyone to write a date at least on the bag? Or I was curious if anyone did because I do.
When people say "I get X amount of days on my bag," I wondered if they kept data or relied on memory. Period. Exclusively.
My memory is awful. Plus, I'm documenting this change due to weeping skin around the stoma and how well it healed that currently I am getting 8 days—all documented via photo each change for my stoma nurse.
Or anyone else interested. Maybe when I retire, I can write a book. Make millions on this recovery. Start an interactive stoma website. Less A.I., of course.
Confusion beginning with just a bag change... 1 bag on/off... or complete assembly as "appliance."
People say my bag leaks when in fact it's the sealing behind the flange... or worse, the seam in the bag breaks and then just the bag requires replacement.
You might be reading too deeply here, my friend. Then my mind is on sleeping since it's a snow shift for me tonight and I'm probably babbling due to lack of sleep... due to this stoma output every freaking hour. Beyond tired, but ha ha, my bag... aka known entire assembly is replaced and dated as 1 piece. 1 step.
I never change just the bag. I do both always. A 2-piece drainable Mio Click Sensura.
Reasons to change the bag only depend on why.
But my thread was about the entire thing being replaced since the skin was at fault.
I would bet that BeachBoys cat's sharp talons would rip his bag off in 3 seconds. 🐱 That data would be useless. An accident.
I'm looking at long-term bag—entire assembly with flange—wear from healing skin. Dating it for proof.
Medical reasons behind my logic asking.
Threads... conversation-wise go off in many directions. I think it's cool. Like working a party room.