Almost 33 years with an ileostomy and I thought I had heard it all. Wrong! In a recent posting on a FB ostomy page, a lady from Brazil, using Google Translator to translate from her native Portuguese into English, said that she was happy to find the page because she too was "ileostomized." What a great word! I told her I'm stealing it
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Paul
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Sep 21, 2011 2:16 pm
Past Member
Sep 25, 2011 7:20 am
That is a great word... let's get it out there... thanks for cluing us in on it...
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Mike
Lalu
Sep 26, 2011 6:07 pm
I like being able to be specific like that - ileostomized, colostomized, urostomized. While not an exact generic version, (that would be stomized), I've used stomacized, for lack of a better already existing word, to describe myself or a family as in "when I got home from the hospital my family became stomacized".
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mooza
Sep 27, 2011 1:08 am
Thanks very much! Love it, hehehehe. Claps to all, hahahahah. - ileostomized just copy and pasted stolasized, hehehe tackqua yeah lalua- eeeeeeee
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hahahah
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hehehehehehe fidle de deeee
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hahahah
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hehehehehehe fidle de deeee
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Lalu
Sep 28, 2011 7:54 am
Uh-oh. I misspoke. Just reread a post I wrote a short while ago and realized that while in this topic I posted that I've used "stomacized," in the previous topic, what I said was "stomatized" with a "t" in the middle, not a "c." Can't decide now which I like better. Any opinions are welcome.
Ms Mooza - Fiddle de dee yourself. Guess since we can no longer "make wind," that makes us "Gone with the Wind".
mooza
Sep 28, 2011 9:42 am
Lalu
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Don't be cheeky hahahahahah
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This Aussie Sheila too quick for you!! hahahaha
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Lalu
Sep 28, 2011 9:55 am
Ms Mooza -
I was looking at how evil those little emoticons look - the ones sticking out their tongues. Please tell me if I'm wrong - for the first time, I took a good look at the other ones. Those guys dressed in blue look like they're actually mooning me. Those dirty little emoticons.
Biggest thrill I've had in quite a while. Thanks.
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mooza
Sep 28, 2011 10:41 am
Oops, you got your thrills on Blueberry Hills
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or aliens' cheeks, lol... Darn, how did you sneak in? I
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didn't see. I actually don't look who pops in; I was writing you a quick message that I lost TWICE. Argh!
You are so funny, Lalu. Thanks for the laugh, darlz.
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