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@dieffenk Hey Kevin: I hope things continue to get better for you. We're in this together. Keep posting. Thanks for sharing your experiences. ...

@ileostony Hi Tony: I find it pretty easy to laugh at myself. The Ostomy has given me new material to work with. 😄

@john68 I love this, John! Great way to put it.

@njewell1 Gravity wins! 😆

Hey Tony. That does not sound comfortable, and I hope you find some relief from it. I wish I had some words of wisdom. My main pain is the healing ...

Thanks Tony. I do like kneeling on one knee while emptying. At home, this puts me right on the level with the TP, so it is a pretty smooth operation...

Words to live by, Eric. That's for sure. 😆

When I notice the smell, the inside of the bag does have the smell of sulfur. But, the smell I get with the bag sealed is like the faint smell of a b...

To be clear, I know that sitting on the toilet would be a better option for emptying, but I still have that "let's close the back end" wound thing goi...

I may have lucked out with a very good surgeon, and maybe having had moderate to severe ulcerative colitis for so long has helped me to accept this, b...

Nice, Eric!

@dogtalkerer I'm just 5 weeks post op, so my input probably doesn't count, but I can still bend down as I used to. It feels a bit weird in the area o...

@sjlovestosing Thanks, Stella. Yeah, it's tough to just trust and let things be. The hardest part for me after surgery is not knowing what is normal...

@veganostomy Hi Eric: I don't think so on the chlorine-free bags. No yellow slip and it was a beige bag. I put on a one-piece Hollister with no fi...

Time for a hula hoop support group. Stella, you should check - there may be a Guiness Record category for hula hoop over a stoma, and it might be so...

@veganostomy After reading my response, I realize that most of my problem may be that I just need to leave the bag alone and stop worrying about thing...

@veganostomy Hi Eric. I think it is from a combination of just having some residual smell from emptying the pouch and maybe getting some output on th...

@dlkfiretruck Thanks, Linda. I'd never thought of the fact that we are now able to fart in our own faces. Another ostomate superpower. We do have t...