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My thoughts are with you Linda. This is a very hard time for you. I will be thinking of you with good thoughts.

Hi Fred, First sorry about the NG tube.. those things suck ( attempt at humor). 24 hours with one made me nuts. No, I have never had advise to eat no ...

Welcome VickyH, This is a scary and very new experience for you. Its hard to deal with the changes to your mind and body while recovering your health...

I have had a very similar experience and outcome as UCtoOstomy. After nearly four years of total incontinence I had my colectomy and got my new stoma....

Hi Suzanne, Welcome to the forum and thanks for the tip about healing and protecting the skin with the milk of Magnesia. Great tip! I wrote it down so...

I guess Latin and gibberish look the same to me ... just like Greek! Thanks. It DOES give one an idea of what a certain number of words looks like. Ve...

Thats funny Lisa. I haven't done that, but I had had to pull the odd piece of cat fur out from under my wafer. Keep smiling!

I think a limit of thousand words would be good ... see how that goes. A limit for us , but NOT for you. It would force me to collect my thoughts bet...

As to actually looking for Vegemite... you might look under the rocks from whence it came! Just joking, or maybe not. We lived in Australia for a whil...

Hey SqueekyandLisa, Hang on to some of the cloths you think you won't be able to wear. You will get better at this. Your wound will heal and you will ...

Hi Linda, You have a lot to deal with and thanks for sharing. This may be a no brainer, but have you just tried a spoonful of peanut butter ( smooth ...

Hi Tracy, If you can't find a stoma nurse is there a dermatologist in your area that you might see about healing your skin? They might have some sugge...

Hi Gail and welcome to the forum, You could also just use a filterless bag ( whatever you are using that works for you, but get a model without an int...

Good choice! Optimizing for quality of life is always the right answer ... and less driving will really help with that.

Hi Linda, Good luck with this week's medical events. Stress is the WORST thing to deal with, it leads to not sleeping and as you know everything is ...

Welcome Fancy Kitty, It is good you have the home heath coming soon to help you find a practical solution. It will all get better over time. While you...

Linda, Thanks so much for sharing your recent experience. Learning more about you situation is , of course, necessary for you. BUT you are also helpin...

Welcome Liza, You have really had a very tough time. Waking up with a stoma has got to be a special challenge. Lots of us had literally years to consi...

Hi Stella, Thats wonderful. You are alive and enjoying it. What could be better? Congratulations and Happy stomaversary.

Great to hear that you are getting out there again. Its a wonderful discovery to make. So many of us were not able to travel before our stomas came al...