The Social

For those who live in apartment buildings. Have you had smell complaints from neighbors?

A BRUSH WITH AI.

Today, my daughter wrote to me,
with 'my words' couched in poetry
generated in AI form
which, for me, is not the norm.

This was somewhat disconcerting,
for I felt it was subverting
the underlying motivation
for my rhyming literation.

Thus, I paused to ponder on
what might happen when I’m gone,
when rhymes are written by AI
and budding writers need not try.

If, in ...

For those of you lucky folks who can get reversed......I think this says it all!

;O)

https://www.amazon.com/Ostomy-Reversal-Ended-Surgery-T-Shirt/dp/B07YQPZ8Q8

Part 3 of... a Beachbum loose in the zoo.

Darn! Where'd that contact lens roll off to?

Mrs B's favorite, the Polar Bears. One of our cruise vacations was spent onboard a Russian polar exploration vessel, The Orlova. Dubbed....The love tub. Sailed from Churchill far into the Canadian Artic. One sunny day, we stopped at an Island with high cliffs full of nesting seabirds. Patrolling the ...

Watching my friends having a dip in the sea today. I keep telling them I will join them next time! The sand is tinged with a red colour due to the iron minerals found along the coastline. Plenty of iodine for me and Vitamin D.

Hi Everyone! I feel welcome in this new group. I am in the decision making process of getting an ostomy from both childbirth trauma + IBS-C. I have been offered an ostomy several times throughout my lifetime, but always thought I could handle it. Now it is getting more difficult. After 2 failed Sacral Nerve Stimulators, many bladder infections, now interstitial cystitis and much more, I am to ...

LIKE ALL KIDS, WE OFTEN had mischief on our minds. We lived in a spreading residential neighborhood of single-family homes. As soon as it turned dark, Paulie, Tom, and I would gather at my house. “What do you want to do?” “I don’t know, what do you want to do?” “Let’s play R & R,” I suggested. That was Ring & Run. We’d ring someone’s doorbell, then run like hell, lau ...

THE ’INSPIRATIONAL’ THOUGHTS OF Roy T. Bennett can be awfully pedestrian, but he got this right. He listed the fifteen “things money can’t buy” and it’s well worth highlighting them all. Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity. You could catalogue a lot of wealthy people ...

Decided to mosey down south, San Diego way. Soon my trusty Honda-mobile delivered us safely to La Jolla cove. Walking the shoreline path is always a joy.

Birds of a feather...
Pelicans hangin' loose

After all that walking.... time for breakfast. We hustled over to our favorite place: Brockton Villa.
View from our table.

Fueled up, time to check in.

Scripps Inn. Another fav ...

Welcome back to ABC's wide world of stoma's brought to you by PoopBgone.
I'm Jim McKay. Today's competition promises thrills and chills as we watch the first annual international barrier ring toss competition. Taking place on the scenic campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University in lovely New Jersey. Expect to see the unexpected.
Down on the field is lovely DexieB to explain ring toss basic ...

Bright and early we arrive at San Diego Zoo. Nice day, sunny with scattered clouds.
Mrs B enjoyed her private Panda tour.

I snapped a few pics.
Then onward to the critters.
Popcorn.... Oh temptation..still my fluttering heart.

More to come.......

I have had a colostomy for over 40 years at first it was so hard you never mentioned your bag and always kept it hidden . But now it’s great everyone is so open and you can talk about it openly .but I hope I can get some help . I am having an operation for a total shoulder replacement so. Won’t be able to use my right hand I’m told for 6 weeks . Has anyone had a replacement shoulder and ...

THE STORY OF JACK SCHITT

Jack Schitt is the son of Awe Schitt and Oh Schitt.

Awe Schitt, the fertilizer magnate, married Oh Schitt, the owner of the Kneedeep Schitt Inn.

Jack Schitt married Noe Schitt and they produced six children.

Holy Schitt, their first, passed on shortly after childbirth.

Next came twin sons, Deep Schitt and Dip Schitt;

Two daughters, Fulla Schitt and Giva Sch ...

FAIRNESS & WILLS.

Fairness can be complex where
somebody dies and people share
the proceeds of the deceased life,
which sometimes leads to angst and strife.

The person who has owned some stuff
can sometimes find it rather tough
to decide who gets what’s what
so, might think, stuff the blinkin’ lot.

If that is not what they decide,
then they must think how they divide
their worldly w ...

I have a lot of medical supplies I’d like to donate to someone who could use them. Boxes of ostomy bags, tape, barrier spray, etc. I know how much these supplies can cost us and I’d like to give them to someone instead of tossing everything out. I had my reversal done over a year ago and no longer need them. Contact me T l y n n 256 at yahoo dot com if you’re interested. thanks

Hi All , I was sitting here thinking how many of us are really be honest on this site?? Are we saying who we really are, what about our pictures are they from now or older then saying just wondering?? I think on a site like this we all should be as honest as possible because we’re all looking for maybe that someone special or a real good friends remember alot of us just can’t go on other s ...

HOW WE FEEL ABOUT OURSELVES is not a static concept. There are good days and bad days, times when we are proud of ourselves and times we can’t bear to look in the mirror. It’s those damned emotions, those on and off personal appraisals that can tear us down or build us up, depending upon our mood and circumstances, which are as everchanging as tidal pools. It happens to everybody. “P ...

FAIRNESS & WEALTH

With ‘fairness’ as a subject, I
really thought I ought to try
to ascertain where wealth might fit
while we are discussing it.

Many humans feel that wealth
has value more than human health
because it seems to buy so much
that we can own, and see, and touch.

Wealth distribution seems unfair,
especially when folks do not share
in the things that it can do
to help the w ...

BACK IN THE DAY, I was always going somewhere. Going to work, going to the store, going to the beach. It was always a readily identifiable, physical place. That’s the normal way of life. But we age, and once I actually, officially became old (whenever the hell that was), I wasn’t going anyplace anymore. My destination, as Marcel Proust wrote, was “no longer a place, rather a new way ...

Hi I’m new to this site but still possess very good sight. I’m widowed and retired but by no means a wallflower. I worked full time until I retired and my current career consists of “making Liz” happy. I’ve had my ileostomy for 38 years and never let it stop me from doing what I want to do. I love meeting new people and chatting is something I really enjoy. Stay happy
“ Be yourse ...

THERE ARE NO CLOCKS ON THE WALL in hell. Dante knew that when he wrote ‘The Inferno.’ Time is irrelevant, it doesn’t exist in eternity, which must mean that there are no clocks in paradise either. But while we live, we must keep time, although I noticed recently that a friend with whom I walk doesn’t wear a watch. He is, like me, retired, but I wear a watch. It made me wonder. Is ...

DID YOU EVER GET THE FEELING that, somewhere along the line of your life, you missed something? Maybe you were just too careful, or inattentive, or distracted. Perhaps you had priorities that inhibited you. There’s so much going on, after all, that you can’t be expected to catch everything. You won’t be picking an apple from the tree if you don’t see the apple. Some people won’t ...

I READ A LOT, BUT it has occurred to me that it might be a substitute for DOING. Reading is not acting, it is not altering your position in space relative to other things, it does not involve decision-making. In fact, it avoids those things. Life is a place where people do things. Books are where you learn about other people doing things. Life is where stuff happens to you. Books are whe ...

Sooo…(as the teenagers as)...today marks the 50th anniversary of the release of one of the greatest rock n roll epics of all time, “Stairway to Heaven”.

Never released as a single it was on the English super group Led Zeppelin’s fourth studio album, simply titled Led Zeppelin IV.

If radio stations still exist in 50 years time (doubtful) one would hope they are still playing this ic ...

Hi folks, just joined to post a ileostomy related question. Some great friendly advice already and think I could end up being a regular visitor!
Anyway, I’m from a small town in Scotland, the wrong side of 50, and had an ileostomy for 22 years due to UC.

SOMETIMES IT’S GOOD to turn off your mind. I find that it is possible to be thoughtless, to just SEE without musing about it. It can be healthy, cleansing. It’s like swishing out your glass so that you can drink from it again. Besides, thinking takes effort, uses up precious energy, and tires you out. “People don’t like to think,” wrote Helen Keller. “If one thinks, one must ...

Hi,
I have been on this site for many years now and it seems like whenever someone looks at my profile, they are never the first ones to contact me, I always seem to be the first one to do the contacting. Kind of strange. Just something I have noticed.

DIY (homebuilding)

I understand some people might
feel, for them, that it is right
to buy a house to be a home
that they can call their very own.

Most people do not feel inclined,
or have the skills, or strength of mind
to do this job with DIY
and so, they go and simply buy.

Their house is built by builders, who
will have the skills and so will do
the work of building up the shell
and ...

THE NIGHTLIGHT ON MY DESK died recently. I had no immediate plan to replace it until I came across an ad for lava lamps. These bizarre things have been around since 1963. As I looked at the different lamps being marketed, the viscous liquid flowing around in it, it made me think about my memory, the unpredictable ebb and flow, the constantly changing shape of it. That’s what memory is, ...

WE HAVE ALL OF US entertained the persistent quandary, wondering whether to perceive a glass as half full or half empty. The overriding issue was: are you an optimist or a pessimist? Do you have a positive attitude, or are you a downer? Do you need a depressant or an antidepressant? These are not questions that ever concerned me, since I’ve never worried about whether or not the damned ...

Hello. I just had ileostomy surgery 5 weeks ago. Still recovering.

U just wanted to introduce myself and say hi. Also just lear8about the forum.

Hopefully there is a lot of info i can glean and share, but still a newbie when it comes to ostomies stomas etc.

Thanks

girls do you wear pregnacy jeans. for work any help would be great if so what size do you get ?

STUFF HAPPENS, CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGE. “Everything is in a state of flux,” wrote Robert Byrne, “including the status quo.” So when you get old like me, the constant alterations, adjustments, and amendments that disrupt your daily routine can be irksome. The older one gets, the more one tends to rely on the regularity of the way things run. Unpredictability can be a stick in the spoke ...

THERE WAS AN OLD MAN lived down on the corner when I was a kid who had a reputation for being a storyteller. The thing was, though, that you had to get him at just the right time and that was when he was fairly well drunk, but not completely blotto. The main tale everyone said he always related, once he had a sufficient crowd of listeners gathered ‘round, was about the day he’d rounded a ...

‘THE THREE FACES OF EVE’ was a 1957 film starring Joanne Woodward as a housewife with three distinct personalities. Characters like this make interesting movies, but how far-fetched is it? The great writer Gabriel García Márquez once wrote: “All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.” The public life would be the one we expose to the world. The private pers ...

A good friend of mine has just offered us the use of her AIRBNB home for 5 nights. It's a beautiful house with all the amenities, plus it's in a nearby tourist town that I've yet to explore.

Dear husband and I haven't had a vacation long since before my surgery, so we're due for a little getaway.

This will be my first time away from home, so I'm a little nervous about the whole ostomy pack ...

Hi I just finished reading a heartfelt message from Bill, people what is happening in this word today why are we not helpful and understanding, there are many people out there who are hurting and suffering and looking for some sort of kindness and compassion it doesn’t take much for each of us to be that person that someone is looking for please let’s all take a moment to be kind helpful a ...

I GOT A LATE START on a recent early AM walk and so the darkness had gone when I came around the corner and there stood Tommy Smothers. “I thought you were dead,” I said. “That’s the way it’s always been with me,” he deadpanned. “People always underestimate me.” I tried to encourage him. “But you guys had a great act together.” Tommy’s eyes rolled. “Yeh, but I wa ...

Is there a protein bar that someone has found that is digestible and provides a reasonable protein/nutrition, that would be helpful when traveling?

Just curious if anyone on here has any experience with upper GI bleeds.
Been a problem for me for a while now , causing constant low iron levels and fatigue.
Had multiple cameras and they can’t see where bleeding could be coming from.
They are saying it could possibly be angiodysplasia , apparently this is very hard to detect unless actively bleeding.
Awaiting on a referral for a double ...

ACHIEVEMENT IS DIFFICULT to pin down. It might involve reaching a goal, or just finishing a job. Does the accomplishment have to completely satisfy specific standards established for such things, or can you live with what many people find sufficient, it’s better than it was? “If you look for perfection,” Tolstoy wrote in ‘Anna Karenina,’ “you’ll never be content.” Sometimes ...

What a pair. Hotdogs and beer... at Angel Stadium. Watched the Angel's beat Atlanta 3 -2 last Friday.
Nice crowd turned out.

Saturday I biked to Seal Beach pier. Was great pedaling to Seal Beach, wind at my back. Brutal fighting a headwind coming back.

Dogs on Dog beach.

On the bridge going over Anaheim Bay

Anaheim bay, looking north.

Pigeons vs squirrels.

Hummingbird o ...

Hi everyone…

Does anyone have a success story or a positive statement they would like to share? I am in the thick of my testimony I see the light, but I am not there yet. I love the support and networking these sites have to offer, but sometimes I get scared by the unsuccessful stories.

I could use some positivity right now

Hi everyone. I am new to this Group. I have had my colostomy bag for maybe 4 months now. I initially went in the hospital for a different reason. But while I was in there April -May. I ended up with a bowel obstruction and had to have an emergency surgery to remove my entire colon. Now I have a stoma and colostomy bag. This caused me to be laid up for some time and I almost lost my voice and c ...

Hello everyone I'm new to the site. I just recently became a Ostomate. I'm looking for like mined individuals who understands this new lifestyle who can aid me in navigating this new way of life.

SOMETIMES WHEN I WALK, I amble. To amble is to walk at a slow, relaxed pace. I’m not out there to set records or to push any cardiovascular imperative. Although I do regard my walks as ‘exercise,’ I’m no longer the pretend athlete I used to be. One has to recognize one’s limits. “It does not matter how slowly you go,” said Confucius, “as long as you do not stop.” My bod ...

On my walks along the beach, my mind wanders. Back to my carefree youth. Days spent with friends at the beach. Surfing. Chasing gals... catching few. Getting older was not contemplated. Old age happened to.... well... old people.
Back then we had little money, but lived a rich life as beachbums. No bills, excellent health, hair, and few responsibilities.
Now fast approaching my 7th d ...

I hope this link works, It's to a video, not a picture...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UdtFf_UbhMc

Part 1... I get up.

6:00 am. Another day of lazy retirement life. Cat fed, Mrs B snoring.....wafer good, bags packed... what's an Ostomymate to do?? ..........RIDE !

The weasel fueling up.

Today's journey takes me to lovely, quaint Balboa Island. Relax, sip a little Ensure, and virtually ride along.

68 degrees with nice overcast skies. Pointing my human powered Beach cruiser sout ...