I volunteer a couple of times a month at a correctional facility, where I have to walk through a metal detector. I like to wear a little metal clamp at the bottom of my pouch for added security, and I take it off before I go to the facility. Well, last week I forgot all about it, and the alarm kept going off every time I tried to pass. The young guy working there kept asking me if I had a key in my pocket, or a belt with a metal buckle; a woman in the waiting room piped up, “Are you wearing an underwire bra?” Finally I remembered about the little clamp, and I was embarrassed to whisper to the guy that I have an ostomy and there is a fastener that is probably setting off the alarm. He was even more embarrassed than I was and said, “I don’t need to see it” (and I thought, ohmygod, I don’t want you to either!) … but he couldn’t allow me in if I was making the alarm go off. So I said I could take off the little fastener if he could point me to the ladies’ room, which he did. Then what to do with that thing? I had to go back into the secured locker and slip it into my purse, and then get that all locked up again and walk through the metal detector. We were both a little flustered. Just another day in the life of an ostomate …. Colostomy 4/30/18. lol... I hope its okay if your story left me laughing a little bit. How would you prove and under wire Bra! Ugh!! Would you need to take that off too & go braless for your meeting?! :{. Do you not have a velcro closure on your pouch or have you had a much dreaded experience with it coming open on you?? I wear a hollister one piece & have never had it open on me except one time when it was accidentally my own doing, but honestly I have never been concerned about it opening on me. But I'll admit this is one reason I can't bring myself to wear a 2 piece & I'm not sure I see the point in them. I worry about it opening where it joins the wafer area & it seemed the ring would show more under my clothes & then, would it handle the up & downs of picking up a small child as often as I do in one day?? What a fabulous idea to keep a little metal clip on the drain area to further prevent the situation if you are concerned about it opening. If its the same metal clip I think your talking about, those little suckers are pretty secure! Good thinking! Linda Thanks for sharing! I bet if they used the metal detector wand, and it started beeping around your waist, it would be even more suspicious! LOL On a more practical note, is there a non-metal version of that clip style that you could swap for? Just your friendly neighborhood ostomate. @dlkfiretruck Oh, yes, it was pretty funny, especially when the woman in the waiting area was trying to be helpful! I wasn’t upset at all, and am thankful that I didn’t have to have a pat-down! The velcro closure has never failed me, but I feel better with the little metal clip, which also serves to fold the pouch up a little. I’d been tucking it into the cover, but that fabric is so fragile that it always tore after a couple of empties. Those little clips are very handy, indeed, for all kinds of things; I wonder who is the genius who thought them up? Colostomy 4/30/18. I love History so I had a little peak into the history of the metal clips. Interestingingly enough they were invented by a gentleman who wanted to help his Father to help hold his paper work together more efficiently while developing the Glen Echo Park in Maryland USA. The clip is much preferred to the standard of sewing papers together thru punched in holes which was the standard back in the day. The ORIGINAL CLIPS were created & patented back in 1910 by Louis E Baltzley & were stamped with LEB the number is ...patent # 1139627! So... check your clips they may be antiques!! Linda
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