Self Image and the Ostomate
For all living with chronic situations, please know there are better days ahead for you. Do not give up, do not give in. Keep questioning, keep fighting for answers, show up for yourself and don’t stop. Anger won’t help, frustration won’t help, disappointment won’t help. All these will do is waste your precious energy. Determination, dedication and self-advocacy are within your grasp…that, and a little CONFIDENCE!
The holidays presented a wonderful opportunity for my husband, Bruce, and I to take our two 14-year-old granddaughters to Florida for a few days. Maddie and Jessie, seven weeks apart, growing up as sister/cousins and to quote one of them, “are sharing their lives!”
We may celebrate differently, we may eat different foods, we may even search for different things (Easter Eggs or Afikomen, which is matzoh) but we are all looking for the same thing, I believe…health, happiness, peaceful times, and blessings for all we love and adore.