Self Image and the Ostomate
As many of you already know, in January of 1993, a spaghetti-like adhesion strangled a loop of my small intestines called the ileum. Close to death, emergency surgery resected almost three inches of the gangrenous bowel. Recovering from surgery became the easy part. Unfortunately, a few days after being released from the hospital, I was […]
When I was in high school, a close uncle had a double amputation of his legs. He suffered from a rare situation that caused him to have the “arteries of a 90- year- old man” despite the fact he was only in his 30’s. His two young daughters were terrified of his new anatomy, as […]
Thank you to all who were concerned about my health after reading my recent post. Frankly, this last partial blockage kicked my butt, so to speak. It had me very worried, thinking that, once again, I was about to go down the path of misery my Ileostomy has prevented these past nine years. As I […]