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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Had a full colectomy last year due to UC. Was diagnosed 30 years ago! Looking to meet a guy who gets it! Hoping for a reversal but some issues involved. Moving out of NM soon. Just waiting for my last son at home to go Active Duty and I am out o...

It's said that hindsight is 2020, though 2020 was far from a hindsight let's all hope that 2021 will become more than that. Being a New Year is now approaching let's Pray that the numbers 2021 will become more fun and prosperous for all. Ch...

DECEMBER. For as long as I remember  frosty days of each December  highlight the fact that winter’s come  and the autumn days are done.   Chill winter’s winds will resonate,  plants...

   After my long flight I would quarantine for 14 days but because of the rash I had developed on my back and side , heading straight to my SToma , I decided that another week was called for. My final day was to be Sunday 25th Oct. &...

   In Nov 2018  Kitty had a Gallstone removed and was back in the hospital with major abdominal pain  a day after being released . The possible problems associated with this "Keyhole" surgery  had not been fully explain...

   Many people ponder the viability of a long distance relationship and with good reason . I can tell you without hesitation that it works . My long distance is between SIlicon Valley in California and a small town called Ballina in t...

     I have always been a big introvert and I never made friends easily . I sometimes must have appeared a little "creepy" in that I would show that I was interested but rarely  followed through to start a conversation , wit...