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Today I lost a stoma-plug!

by Bill
Apr 07, 2021 - Apr 09, 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...
322 views, 7 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...
133 views, 1 comments

KIND GESTURES 7 (keeping going)

by Bill
Jan 26, 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...
116 views, 0 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...
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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...
274 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...
201 views, 6 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...
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DECEMBER

by Bill
Dec 29, 2020
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...
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A NEW BOOK & PROLOGUE

by Bill
Nov 05, 2020 - Nov 28, 2020
I FEEL THERE ARE SOME GREAT ADDITIONAL ADVANTAGES TO CONTRIBUTING TO A SITE LIKE MAO, which may not be immediately apparent in the daily correspondence relating directly to stoma issues.  As a writer and a rhymist the good people on here h...
366 views, 13 comments

DIGNITY AND STOMAS

by Bill
Nov 02, 2020 - Dec 01, 2020
DIGNITY AND STOMAS. Prior to my colostomyit never did occur to methat people differed in this wayas stomas are not on display. So, you’re not likely to behold,and stoma stories are untold,because it seems embarrassingto be talking about ...
276 views, 2 comments

DAILY ROUTINE

by Bill
Oct 28, 2020 - Nov 02, 2020
DAILY ROUTINE. Why are we all by routine bound?Why do our lives revolve aroundmundane habits we displaywithout question every day? What is it predisposes us to act routinely without fuss,and not rebel about the fact we can predict the way we a...
259 views, 4 comments

COLOSTOMY

by Bill
Sep 29, 2020 - Oct 15, 2020
COLOSTOMY. For those of you who do not know,colostomies divert the flowof faeces from my normal bumto an opening on my tum. A stoma is the exit holewhere faeces come under controlby catching it in a ‘device’ which is a ‘bag&r...
213 views, 4 comments

CONFLUENCE OF OSTOMATES

by Bill
Sep 03, 2020 - Sep 04, 2020
CONFLUENCE OF OSTOMATES. When a group converse togetherit will be their own choice whether they play an active part or not depending on the skills they’ve got. Some will need facilitationto establish a foundationfor a safe and friendly p...
317 views, 2 comments

ABDOMEN

by Bill
Jul 09, 2020 - Dec 06, 2020
ABDOMEN. I used to have an abdomenlike other fit and active men.Slim, with muscles well definedand symmetrically aligned. Of course, this was a different ageand playing on a different stage.For then, I had the momentumto maintain a healthy tum...
304 views, 6 comments

THINKING ABOUT MY STOMA

by Bill
Apr 05, 2020 - Apr 06, 2020
Hello everyone! It is with full acknowledgement to Bob, for providing the stimulus and the concept for this rhyme that I give to you my thoughts for this morning:-  Best wishes Bill THINKING ABOUT MY STOMA. There was a time, as I recal...
324 views, 3 comments
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