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Revision surgery

by Chiquis
Jun 04, 2021 - Jun 14, 2021
I am considering surgery to have my illestomy removed. I would like to know from others who have done this if it was successful or unsuccessful and problems that may have occurred.  Thank you
155 views, 8 comments

The Single Ostomate

by suzielebrocq
May 27, 2021 - May 30, 2021
The Single Ostomate If you are single, you have a bit more of a challenge. Dating is hard enough when you have little or nothing serious in your past. But now, you have a medical past that has affected your body, mind and spirit. It can take so...
761 views, 9 comments

May - Date Your Mate Month

by suzielebrocq
May 18, 2021 - May 23, 2021
So May is National Date Your Mate month. Did you know that? Me neither. Sometimes I look around the web for special holidays, national days, days in history and such for funny, obscure or interesting ideas for date posts. Well in doing this r...
412 views, 3 comments

Others Understanding Your Invisible Illness - Re-Post

by suzielebrocq
May 18, 2021 - May 19, 2021
Public washrooms are a struggle for many of us at the best of times. Since COVID-19, and with regulations about how many women can be in a washroom at a time (including standing in line), there is added pressure to an already stressful process. ...
89 views, 1 comments

Accepting Your New Normal - Re-Post

by suzielebrocq
May 18, 2021 - May 19, 2021
Sooner or later, most of us arrive at a point where life seems to have become too big to cope with. Most people don’t know this about me, but I hit rock bottom a number of times during my illness, and I struggled to understand and make sen...
122 views, 1 comments

Stop focusing on ‘just’ surviving and start thriving - Re-Post

by suzielebrocq
May 18, 2021 - May 19, 2021
Changing our behavior is difficult. If it was easy, we wouldn’t find ourselves making the same New Year’s resolutions year after year. Starting diets and falling off them within weeks. Picking up our mood and then feeling down the fo...
93 views, 1 comments

Stop feeling discouraged … and remember why you have it. - Re-Post

by suzielebrocq
May 18, 2021 - May 20, 2021
My bag bought its challenges. But in reality, it's stopped me from dying several times. That on its own made it absolutely amazing.   It had its off days, but we all do. It's leaked at the worst possible times (during sex, at a funeral), ...
98 views, 1 comments

Today I lost a stoma-plug!

by Bill
Apr 07, 2021 - Apr 17, 2021
TODAY I LOST A STOMA PLUG. For many years I’ve felt quite smug, to wear a simple stoma plug, and skip the inconvenience  of the stoma-bag experience.  Perhaps, for some, I should explain, that I found bags c...
607 views, 13 comments

KIND GESTURES 8 (the cleaner)

by Bill
Jan 26, 2021 - Mar 31, 2021
KIND GESTURES 8. (the cleaner) I wish to tell this tale in rhyme,so it may last beyond my time,illuminating a kindnessthat help me out when in a mess. I suffered with incontinence,which meant that personal effluencewas not that easy to control...
220 views, 1 comments

KIND GESTURES 7 (keeping going)

by Bill
Jan 26, 2021 - Apr 19, 2021
KIND GESTURES 7. (keeping going) I’d like now to compile a rhymeto capture this moment in time,when most of us are in lockdownand ‘normal’ things are upside down. I’d like to pay a tribute tothose folks who work to help...
214 views, 2 comments

KIND GESTURES 6 (Stoma nurses)

by Bill
Jan 23, 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 m...
377 views, 0 comments

KIND GESTURES 5 (creating a way)

by Bill
Jan 22, 2021 - Jan 25, 2021
KIND GESTURES 5. (creating a way) I wish to tell you, if I may, of my walk beside a waterway. This is my walk by winding stream where I relax and dare to dream.  This walk for me is regular, because it is spectacular&n...
363 views, 2 comments

KIND GESTURES 4 (USA)

by Bill
Jan 21, 2021 - Apr 01, 2021
Warning: This post may contain political content!    KIND GESTURES 4. (USA) I’ve been seeing what people sayin and around the USA,and thought I ought to write a rhymeto capture these concepts in time. There seems to be a prec...
324 views, 6 comments

Good Gesture

by bowsprit
Jan 12, 2021 - Jan 31, 2021
Doctor Omar Atiq, a Pakistani-American oncologist erased $650,000 of his patients' debts. According to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Dr. Omar, who founded his cancer clinic in Pine Bluff in 1991 sent out a notice to his patients just before Chr...
405 views, 5 comments

JANUARY

by Bill
Jan 07, 2021
JANUARY. January’s that time of year   in the northern hemisphere,  with shorter days and longer night  when winter’s wind will pack a bite.   With all festivities now done,  the gl...
293 views, 0 comments
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