Hello All,

Finding the right appliance, can that really be a difficult thing, sure it just a wafer stick it on, then put a pouch on that, get dressed, empty pouch when needed! simple. Now before some one tells me where to GO!! and rightly SO!! I swear this is the way the majority of ostomates are treated by their after care!! The wafer and the pouch I wear is the same product I picked 23 years ago! It works for me very well and do you know why that is ? LUCK! but not the case for so many. We have never had a better range or choice of products but what suits me may not even see you through the day. Can it really be so hard for hospitals to have proper care, A new ostomate could spend painful and distressing months trying to find a suitable pouching system. If I was not for VO and other Advocates I really don,t know where we would be. My wife had a Kidney transplant this year, you want to see the advice offered both before and after, meetings set up with other transplant patients, events organised by the hospital. All the time I was thinking why can,t this happen with stoma patients. Any one who having problems keep on at your stoma nurse, don,t take no for an answer, get on line here post questions ask again if you still not sure. Sorry people for going off on one.