Ya, Stella and my Nellie are silent pumping stations huh? Always feeling around down there..

There is a strange guy hanging around outside.. go check it out Barbara!!!!!!!!!! :-)

Marcie you crack me up with your stories . But hey I'm glad that you can jump on a Harley n feel the wind threw your hair I have short hair it just makes my head cold . Ha . (But honestly for some therapy take a ride on a bike true story )  After all there is only two kinds of motorcycle one is Harley n the other one Davidson ! Harley Davidson haha . Can you guess what I ride ??? . Haha . I'll work on the rosebud Marcie see if I can get it sewed up better ! I need a good semstress know one ?  Ha . And poor Eric with a bag on his head ??? Lol there's a site I'm sure .....  Seriously thou Barbara I hope you are ok after that experience maybe you should go back n get a set at the corner table in the lounge n rest ... 

Probably rest with a good stiff one on my hand!! 

Robert, out here in Nebraska, we make scalloped corn with a super simple recipe:

1 can cream corn

1 can whole kernel corn

1 tube/pack of saltine crackers (crushed but not pulverized!)

1 can of milk (use one of the corn cans)

2 eggs (beaten)

NO extra salt or pepper are necessary (unless you want them in it).

Put it all in an 8 x 8 square baking dish and bake it for an hour to an hour and a half at 350.  Every oven is different - mine cook hot.  I like it baked almost solid, so I bake mine for about an hour and a half.  Makes it nice and golden brown on top, too!  Husband and I will eat most all of the whole dish of it along with a small steak, meatloaf, or pork chop with apple sauce.

Super easy!  Quick to put together and it just plain tastes good!!!!

Mykirbyroo 

Thank you very much . You know what I'm talking about !! I was born in Iowa I don't know if this is some kinda Midwestern dish or what . But I grew up eating this n loving it ! Your recipe sounds great just the way I like it kinda thick with crackers not runny . I am gonna give it a try . 

Hi, Robert!!!  Don't be surprised if you snarf down the whole dish of it.  We LOVE it and my husband asks for it quite often.  If he had his way (and he usually does!), he'd have it at least once a week!  I'll eat it hot or cold (leftover) - either way, it's good to me.   Forgot to tell you that if you want it puffier, add another egg or two.  That will bind it together even more!!!  It'll be rather soupy when you slide it into the oven, but it will thicken up nicely.  Happy eating!!!!

Aren't you worried about a blockage with all that corn?? It's one of the things I have been warned about so I avoid it.  But it sounds so good

Has anyone else found their Medicines in your pouch?  Found 2 of mine tonight.

No, Barbara, I never worry about cooked veggies.  As long as the veggies are cooked all the way through, I can eat them til the cows come home and never have a problem.  Of course, I don't eat TONS of them every day, but I do eat my fair share (and some of yours!) of veggies. 

Rosebud is my permanent colostomy.  (I had my surgeon put her on the leftish side of my midriff so I can see her very clearly and take good care of her.)  This is going to sound really awful, but bear with me.  Every day, I eat something I call a "marker" food.  It's corn, carrots, fresh frozen peas, green beans, apple with the skin, red or green pepper, raisins - something I don't always chew up to the point of being unrecognizable.  (I'm not a great chewer!  Never have been.)

Anyway, when I see that "marker" food in my pouch liner, I know about where my food is in it's progression through my digestive tract.  Rosebud is a fussy old thing, but she's really good about giving me my "marker" foods, and they come through easily identifiable.  The corn and peas looks like they did when I ate them.  Peppers come through looking like peppers.  Etc.  (I use Colomajic pouch liners, so when I pull the liner out of my closed Hollister pouches, I can see what's in it.  Yeah, I know.  I'm disgusting!!!)

I'd like to irrigate every night before I go to bed, but if I don't, I like to know how likely I am to have a pouch explosion or blow-out, and whether I can set my alarms to get me up in an hour, hour and a half or if I dare to try for two hours before I do a pouch check.  More than anything in the world, I hate waking up in a puddle of poop!  So my "marker" foods, help me.

I'm sorry I was so graphic in my descriptions, but I hope it gives you a clearer picture.

Yes I do get it. In fact I have done something similar to that trying to test a couple of foods to see if I can eat them. When I left the hospital I was had this long list of things not to eat with a caption at the bottom that says go ahead and eat him anyway and see what happens. Kind of like a hit and miss straight into the ER kind of a procedure which makes me very nervous. So I have tried a couple of things like you said Annapolis to cut it into fairly small pieces but when I recognize them coming through I knew what was going on. Did the same thing with cashews which I'd really like five or six of them and they pretty much came through without changing and so I kind of know where things are and how long things take. I like the name I'll keep remembering that

What meds did you find in your pouch

Hi, maryep!!!!!  My cardiologist has me on 2 10MEQ of Potassium every day.  When Walgreens refilled my prescription this last time, they gave me shiny yellow potassium tablets instead of the white blimp-shaped tablets I always got before.  Anyway, these yellow tablets do not dissolve and I have found them every day in my pouch liners.  So I called Walgreens and asked them about it.  I told them I am a colostomate and I find these yellow tablets in my pouches.

The pharmacist told me that it was a wax coating on the tablets and that was probably why they weren't dissolving.  I asked the pharmacist if he could please make a note or something to always give me the white blimp-shaped potassium tablets because those DO dissolve completely, and he said that he would and was making that note as we spoke.  So from now on, I expect to get the white tablets.  Every other medication I take (and I take a BUNCH of them) dissolves long before it passes through, so I think we're good once we get this potassium situation straightened out.

Hope you're doing OK and you and  your fairly new ostomy are getting along well.  This is the place if you have problems.  (Well, along with your ostomy nurse, of course!!!)  Best wishes!!!

I hated being so graphic, Barbara, but I didn't know what other words to use to describe what I do so you would get a clear picture in your mind.  I wasn't told what I could eat or couldn't eat -- so I eat everything.  Although since surgery (04-01-2014), I have discovered that I don't much care about meat anymore.  I don't know what that's all about, but it's OK and not a hardship for me.

Everything and anything I ate before surgery, I can eat now.  I'm a pasta-holic, so I try to limit my pasta.  I LOVE bread and carbs in general, but I know I have to TRY to limit them.  (I don't do a very good job, but eh, so what???)  We gobble up fruit around here like it's candy - bananas, pineapple, apples, tangerines, etc. - and I think we're part mouse (cheese seems to disappear!!! LOL LOL)

Try just a tiny bit of everything.  No exceptions.  See what you can eat and gradually increase it to a normal serving size.  That's about the only way I know to see if you can handle all kinds of foods.  And above all -- ENJOY your food!!!  Don't ever feel deprived!!!!  Experiment.  Unless you're super allergic to something, I say go for it!!!!  Best wishes!!!

I visited with a dietitian at Holy Family Hospital on Wednesday. What she told me is pretty much what you told me. I have a diet for type 1 diabetes a diet for colostomy and for the irritable bowel syndrome. So what we came up with for me was to take the diabetes diet which I know and understand and just start adding things from the other lists to it and see what works and what doesn't work. You were right on the money sounds like you want to be a dietitian. Haha

Nah, I'm very happily retired, Barbara, and I intend to stay retired!  No more school or careers for me.  This old broad is just chillin' and lovin' every day of what's left of this life God gave me.  My days of secretary-ing 8 to 5 are long done.  (My gal pals and I are all old retired secretaries and word processors, so we seldom call each other - we type e-mails back and forth all the time - but I can't remember the last time I TALKED to any of them!!!)

Your dietitian is your very best source of information and advice for you!!!  I'd absolutely start with the diabetes food plan and alter it as you see fit.  PERFECT!!!!  You're gonna be surprised at what you're gonna be able to eat and have no problems with!  You will be amazed!!!

I am thrilled silly that you consulted with your dietitian, Barbara!  Smartest move you could have made!!!  Very, very wise!!!!!

I keep missing the lounge and want to chat with you all!

Its open 24-7........ just chime in and we all will reply-make up some stories too.

Babb. Robert will learn........ chewit well Robert!!!!!!

Posted by: maryep

Has anyone else found their Medicines in your pouch?  Found 2 of mine tonight.

You'll definitely want to speak with your doctor and/or pharmacist!

https://www.veganostomy.ca/medication-supplements-ileostomy/

Sometimes it's just the casing that some meds are in, but other times it can be the medication itself. 

Mary, take these pills when you eat-- take them 1/2 way thorugh you meal--they will digest better-even as they willstay in longer and dring much during this-tho they say NOT to eat with these. Had to up my mg. on one  med. as it only comes in capasles..  talk with yiur Dr. first about this procedure.. this is what I do with all my meds.. I am an iliesotomcy- so things go through rather fast.. now I get the proper dose.....

tell your Dr. now and then proceed. worked for me-- they think that we are the NORMAL person when they see us coming in- a blind person has a cane-so they know his/her issues.. but not in..