Self Image and the Ostomate
You don’t need me to tell you this…look around and you will find them. Women who have battled breast cancer, those surviving heart disease, those grieving for lost loves and lost lives, tragic childhoods, ostomates who came to the surgery after years, in many cases, of agony and illness. All could yell about despair, and […]
Upon returning from a day of errands, my hands full of packages and bags of food, the phone rings with a familiar phone call. It is from a woman who is fighting tears (this I recognize from the many calls I receive) and immediately, bags and packages left on the floor, I go into SUPPORT […]
My most recent Ostomy Support Group had spare minutes at the end of “the business at hand” so I opened the discussion to all by posing this question: How do you get your mental toughness? I saw facial reactions in some which indicated that perhaps they didn’t realize they exhibited the mental toughness I saw. […]