Self Image and the Ostomate
My ostomy has given me a healthy life, and I want to share the positives. This is because it is easy to look at any with medical challenges as struggling or depressed, frustrated or unhappy. Even resentful comes to mind…why me? Here is the lowdown on life with an ostomy, the honest to goodness truth: […]
I have been asked WHY I am so involved in the world of ostomy? After all, there are between 750,000 to a million with ostomies in the United States, and many do not know of another with an ostomy. That is, most likely, because few talk about this life-saving procedure. It isn’t sexy, it doesn’t […]
You, or someone you love, receives a diagnosis of colon cancer, and within days, or sometimes, minutes, surgery is performed. The offending lesion is removed and either permanently or temporarily, an ostomy is performed. Your life, or that of someone you love, is in the balance, but an ostomy, which is a lifesaving procedure, offers […]