At a recent meeting of the Union County Ostomy Support Group I mentioned that one of the first things I did upon becoming an ostomate was to order a medical alert bracelet. This is because one of the members of our group had shared that he was hit by a car and his pouch exploded, […]
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APPRECIATING THE POSITIVES
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: […]
WHY?
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 […]