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SICK OF BEING SICK. Once, when I was young and healthyand maybe relatively wealthy,I liked to think that I was wiseand could potential maximise. Those were the days when I felt goodand I undoubtedly withstoodthe pressures that life put on me a...

AN HONOUR TO BE RECOGNISED. Today I had a big surprise  which I found hard to criticize because it was an exercise  to honour and to recognise.  Without warning, out of nowhere, someone, somewhere did declare...

GET OFF MY BACK! Bob recently reminded me that folks with disability can fall foul occasionally of those who think judgementally.  These folks are often ignorant  of anything that’s different. So, tend ...

The first thing I need to do is to thank all you good people for your thoughts and well wishes during my period of discomfort.   I realise that having a heart attack and a triple bypass has little or nothing to do with stomas and, for this ...

I SEARCH FOR CELEBRATION TOO.(WINTER EQUINOX) The church created Christmas.Commerce changed their song.Christ would not like Christmas.For now it seems so wrong. I need a celebration.That has significance.Some kind of revelation.Which offers r...

THE WINTER SOLSTICE. The winter solstice brings good cheerwithin the Northern hemisphere.For Capricorn has turned the sunand now it’s on its homeward run. This date’s easy to remembernear the end of each December.Before the Christi...

THE HUMAN FRAME. I question who would claim the fame for making such a human frame. Where all the crap of human waste exits from holes that are misplaced.  Whilst contemplating this I find an irony will cross my mind.&...

WHEN IRRIGATION DOES NOT GO TO PLAN.For years I have successfully irrigated and I am an enthusiastic advocate for people to try out this procedure for themselves as it frees up the daytime hours from the potential tedium of having to manage bags...

BY ANY OTHER NAME? What do I call this thing I don without upsetting anyone?By any other name so sweetto catch digested food I eat. I used to call this thing a ‘bag’as on my belly it would sag to catch the awful smelly waste &rsquo...

BEAUTY. Beauty comes in many formswith very few, if any norms.What may seem beautiful one day may change if viewed another way. Some see the human form as such but I don’t like them very much.Their surface beauty may seem strong but unde...

TELLING PEOPLE. Some people find it hard to tell in case their stomas start to smell.They find it all embarrassing to talk about this wee small thing. They will pretend it is not thereand don’t intend to ever share.I think they think tha...

DECISIONS ON REVERSAL. Sometimes stomas are performedso someday they maybe reformed.Surgeon’s can sow the colon backand lives can then be back on track. There are some people with a choiceto make decisions and give voiceto what they real...

WHERE WOULD WE BE? It’s sometimes difficult to seewhere any one of us would bewithout the help that was for meprovided by my ostomy. When ostomies have been discussedmost have seen them as a must.Without a stoma most of uswould not be he...

THE THEFT OF HOPE. Hope, is expectation and desire that something better will transpireand somehow we will find some ways for future to be better days. I feel it’s no coincidencethat hope can give us confidence to face and tackle our agg...

STRESS AND STRAIN. We’ve all been through some stress and strainand convalesced from chronic pain.It’s all grist to the mill for mebecause I’ve got an ostomy. At first there’s stress before the opit’s then the wor...