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KIND PEOPLE –(Inco’ nurses)

by Bill
Dec 04, 2021 - Dec 05, 2021
Hello Everyone (who reads these rhymes). 


I know I've already written about stoma nurses in a previous blog, but before I had a stoma, it was the incontinence nurses that were tasked to provide support, advice and guidance to the likes of me. Nob...
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BACK TO BAGS?

by Bill
Nov 22, 2021 - Nov 26, 2021
BACK TO BAGS?


Since I had my stoma op.
my irrigation did not stop
for it’s been more convenient,
practical and expedient.

Irrigation’s been my thing,
because the life that it can bring
is vastly better than with bags
and all those toilet-finding sn...
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NO PLACE FOR COMPLACENCY

by Bill
Nov 22, 2021 - Nov 24, 2021
What a nightmare! So, I thought Id' share.


Best wishes


Bill


 


NO PLACE FOR COMPLACENCY.


For years I’ve sussed this stoma game,
and until now I think I’d claim
that I have got control of it
and little bothers me with **it.


Every problem that I...
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Stoma Irrigation pump

by Douglas john
Nov 21, 2021 - Dec 05, 2021
Hi World.


 


Can anybody tell me if there is a company in the USA that markets a Stoma Irrigation pump? In Europe we have Bbraun, but I dont belive that they sell this product in the USA. Bad move on their part as the market must be huge. Are the...
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Kind gestures 6. (Stoma nurses)

by Bill
Nov 21, 2021 - Nov 29, 2021
KIND GESTURES 6. (Stoma nurses)


I feel it is now past the time,
that I should put my mind to rhyme
about the stoma-nurses who
helped me when they needed to.


I’ve been about for long enough,
to know much more about the stuff
that bothers ostomates, a...
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A WEB OF KINDNESS. (MAO)

by Bill
Nov 19, 2021 - Nov 22, 2021
A WEB OF KINDNESS. (MAO)


The world-wide-web has sometimes cast
a nasty shadow in the past,
when trolls and bullies ply their trades
as they let rip with their tirades.


It’s sad to see this bad abuse
be used by some to thus traduce, (speak ill of som...
Views: 237   Comments: 9

Optimism

by magoo
Nov 17, 2021 - Nov 23, 2021
In The Bronx many Moons ago there was a poster in the bathroom of the huge apt I shared with my two Brothers and often new arrivals , " just off the boat "  from our home town in Ireland . Sometimes there would be a knock on the door ...The Bronx ...
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Upcoming surgery

by Earth Angel
Nov 03, 2021 - Nov 07, 2021
Hi friends,


I'm going into Boston tomorrow for a right lower lobectomy of my lung in order to remove cancer that had metastasized in hopes of getting off of the chemo I've been on for so long.


If any of you pray, I would love it if you say one f...
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Disaster strikes

by magoo
Nov 03, 2021 - Nov 08, 2021
Hi guys ,  I've had my HP Laptop for a few years now and I'm so careful with it . It has crossed the US and the Atlantic many , many times  safely .   I did a very stupid thing , I  bumped my coffee cup and some splashed on my keyboard .  I immedi...
Views: 357   Comments: 14

Loss and a Broken Heart, My Miss Kitty

by magoo
Oct 25, 2021 - Oct 26, 2021
Hi there fellow Baggers . We were almost praying for rain in California  and guess what !?  Tomorrow will be the third day  of literally non-stop  deluge of rain  . We have had no rain in the SF Bay Area  since probably last Christmas , that was j...
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For the Anti Anti-Vaxers

by Fred383
Oct 20, 2021 - Oct 25, 2021
My point here is not to argue a point.  It is to ask you to do due diligence in researching some of the facts that the Anti-Vaxers have found to be true.  I'm not going to give you the answers.  You find out and someone give what they have looked ...
Views: 319   Comments: 13

AFTER-EFFECTS

by Bill
Oct 11, 2021 - Oct 13, 2021
Hello Everybody.


Some rhymes focus upon, and are relevant to, a specific subject or problem such as stomas etc. However, sometimes a rhyme seems to have relevance to a number of subjects simulataneously.  I felt that 'After-Effects' was one such ...
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Cheese, dairy and red meats

by Dave101
Sep 29, 2021 - Oct 18, 2021
I have done alot of research into why a lot of us have chrons and colitis.

After doing my research, I found out the following. 

From us being a baby to now, we had some kind of dairy. The dairy such as milk or cheese is hard to digest. It cr...
Views: 262   Comments: 13

3 weeks

by lifelessangel12
Sep 27, 2021 - Oct 15, 2021
It's been three weeks since I got my life saver (as my mom calls her) and I still don't know how to deal. I'm always having some kinda accident where the poop leaks out from all the sides, the anxiety is getting too much, the crying and waking my ...
Views: 424   Comments: 18

Religious Hope and Miracles

by magoo
Sep 26, 2021 - Sep 30, 2021
Hi guys , I was never much on Religion ,  well not exactly true . Until I was maybe ten years old , around that time  I began to question things and the logic of some things which people believe , sight unseen  .          "  Faith " is  the key I ...
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