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GRATITUDE. The worst of times has got to bewhen first you find your ostomy.You can no longer hide awayit’s on your side and there to stay. It shakes you to the very coreand makes you feel that you deplorethe very thing that helped you to...

Has anyone ever wondered why this had to happen to them. I've only had my ostomy siince February and I often think of what I could have done to avoid it. My life has been changed forever and I am learning to cope with it. I don't like it, but it...

I feel the need to apologize to all you folks from around the globe who’ve looked up to us Americans because of our system of governing ourselves, caring for those in need and trying to protect the entire free world from the horrors of inh...

I have had several people ask if my ostomy affects my sex life? What they are really asking is does wearing a sh!t bag turn your husband off? I guess it's normal curiosity. But I feel like telling them it's none of their buisness. Of ...

Has anyone ever have to make their own ostomy because you ran out and there was no place to go to buy one?

A LONER WITH A STOMA. Laughter simply drained from me after I gained my ostomy. It turned out just as I had feared as all my friends just disappeared. I don’t know where or why they went after all the time we spent. ...

Hello all, Do any any of you have the stoma directly across from your belly button? How in this world do you all get rid of the hair around the stoma? I look forward to the information any of you can provide.

Oh my god, have never blogged before and if i'm honest i have absolutely no idea what i am doing!  Still trying to find my way around this website (and i am supposed to be computer literate!!!), not to mention trying to work out the ...

**danceing and singing*** Lets talk about sex babbyyy lets talk about YOU and ME lets talk about sex! hey! lets talk about sex! Alright SO, a topic I've decided to blog about can be a touchy one, which is- getting intimate with an ost...

Hello Everyone, Hope all is well each of you. So it's that time of year once more and I have always like good homemade food and was thinking about doing this recipe blog in hope that those who read it would add a recipe or maybe even ...

Hi Guys,                       It looks like Old  " Glory "  is back with her scam attempt. Her name is Tina this...

A `blog` is new to me.....and so is my stoma. Conseqently, trying to be honest writing about - and coping - with both makes me realise how much I need to look forward, not backward. As I`m a poet, this piece might say it for me.....   Res...

Hi Everyone,  This has been an exciting week for me.  On July 7th my book launched titled Stanley and Me make three.  We know this journey very well and I promised myself, once my health started to improve, I would write a book to...

My partner and I have been together for 3 years, became engaged on valentines day.  He was so full of love for me and we had a good physical end emotional connection.........  I thought I'd found my 'soul mate'....  ...

Even though I've had this colostomy for a year ... I can't seem to accept the fact that it's here for life...people say to me "why you always lookig so sad"...i think to myself if they only knew..I guess I found this sit...