Just quick check in i have been using ostomy half moon tape with aloe vera as i have a scar under my skin which come from 2 hernia tepairs i cut out the aloe very small use a skin creme seems to help those pesky little red dots on skin as i cant leave my iliostomy coloplsst pouch off maybe a few minutes am quite jealous that people can irrigate and just use a tiny cap argggg hello from Melbourne 😎😎😎😎😎
mooza
Nov 06, 2017 8:40 pm
iMacG5
Nov 06, 2017 9:10 pm
What a treat from Melbourne! Mooza, it's so nice to hear from you.
Thanks so much for remembering us.
Mike
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Hello everyone!!!
It has been almost a year since joining this site. I just wanted to share. I know a lot of people get concerned about meeting someone on here. I'm not a lifer membership and I had someone initiate to take me out. I've been divorced since 2009. He lives in Chicago. I ignored the first time thinking he was joking. I live in Milwaukee. So a month later he sent me a message through this site saying he wanted to meet me. That was in April this year. I must say it was the best thing that could happen to me. We talk almost every day. We have so much in common. He comes up all the time to spend the day or weekend together. It really does make a difference when someone has an ostomy like you. Such understanding and we always have something to talk about. I want to share because sometimes people think it's hard to meet someone or they say this site doesn't work. I'm a testimony that this site does work. We are talking marriage this time next year. I will keep you posted.
Bill
Nov 07, 2017 6:44 am
Hello mooza.
Just to echo Mike's sentiments and say it's great to hear from you again.
I give my skin a rest by using an elastic belt to hold my own device(s) in place so that I do not need to use stick-on wafers.
I have often given thought to the scenario where I had an ileostomy and could not irrigate and I have come to the conclusion that I would need to develop a gadget to get the output to exit through a tube rather than allowing it to come out randomly. The nearest (off-the-shelf) device to match my imaginary concept that I have found so far is the stoma 'collar' by coloplast, which guides the output away from the skin. However, I have made a tubular device that slides into the stoma and allows the output to exit through the tube. Unfortunately, because I have a colostomy, the output is often solid rather than liquified so it often gets blocked. It is useful to allow gasses to escape through holes in the sides of the tube.
I don't envy people with ilostomies but I feel sure that there are solutions to these problems, if only people would put their minds to it and do some R&D to come up with solutions.
Best wishes
Bill
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