Self Image and the Ostomate
This sounds simple enough, I am certain. Yet even for the most secure of us, it can be difficult when faced with a health issue, to believe in our feelings about our own body. We believe, and rightly so, that the medical community has far more understanding of what may be facing us than we […]
How dare the thief take so much, destroy so much, and then want to take even more? Will the thief not be satiated until there is nothing but a shell? It angers me just to identify the power this thief renders over us, the potential of eviscerating memory, cognition, language, even the ability to write […]
I was a speaker at the SUNA (Society of Urologic Nurses) Pre-Conference in New Orleans at the end of September…my topic was Body Image and the Ostomate. Aside from worries about the course of Hurricane Ian, I also worried about the ability to make clear the importance of guiding and supporting those living with an […]