Hi, I am going in for surgery to treat rectal cancer on Dec 27th and have been told by my surgeon that a permanent colostomy is the likely outcome. I have been trying to gather as much information as possible on ostomies and all things colostomy. I see the Ostomy nurse this Tuesday to be marked for the ostomy location and I am sure she will have good information for me, but I want information from this community. Maybe stuff nobody told you, or surprises good and bad about having a colostomy. Anything you can tell me would help, I am pretty nervous about the whole thing.

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