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Hi @granddayout , welcome to the forum! Happy to hear you are doing well and getting your freedom back. I know how that feels, it's wonderful!

So sorry to hear this. I hope you get sorted as soon as possible. Please let us know why this happened.

Growing up I used to drink orange juice with whipped cream when everyone else was having coffee. Indeed that creamsicle experience, just not as cold.

lol.... I said "zero ballooning" in my last post. Well..... that aged very quickly as I woke up with a massive balloon on my belly. Managed to change ...

Oh, that's delightful! Always great to make new friends! At my workplace we have three women called Rianne, which can sometimes be very confusing!

I think you're right. I'll try tol remove the textile cover from the top of my bags, so I can get a better view of what I'm doing. Hopefully that will...

The hospital set me up with Dansac Novalife TRE bags one-piece system. Zero ballooning with these, the filter is really good. But I've seen more panca...

Hi guys, sorry I've been away for awhile. Things have not been going as smoothly as I'd hoped. I came home three days after surgery. Everything went g...

Again, thanks for all your support, it's heart warming! I will be scattering his ashes in my front garden this afternoon. That was where he spent most...

Hey Jillian, I had spinach smoothies 5 days post-op colostomy surgery. I found spinach is a great laxative (especially combined with ground flax seeds...

Colostomate here and eating all the fruits without any problems. But, I must add that my gut is not diseased (although they did find diverticulosis in...

Oh my Linda!! What ordeals you're going through!! Re the laughing gas, yes, I got something similar when I dislocated my elbow. Didn't really knock...

Thank you for your support guys! I miss him, but he was very sick and I take comfort in knowing he had a good couple of last days and didn't seem to h...

Hi guys, Thank you so much for all your kind words. Rufus crossed the rainbow bridge on Friday, while my coworker was on her way to take him to her ve...

It's a bit of a hassle to make, and the bananas need to be absolutely unripe. But, once you've made it, it stores pretty well in the freezer. Honestly...

I'm pretty sure I'll have to deal with some of those things. Ballooning, leakages... user errors... But I'll have you guys to keep me sane, and help m...

Lol, try to keep me away from here... ;)

I am so sorry to hear this @Chelly , no one deserves having their confidence taken away like this. It's nothing you did and there is, unfortunately, n...

Ah, the magic of resistant starch, found in green, but not yellow, bananas. If green banana's are hard to stomach, try potatoes. Potatoes form resista...