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RE: Going home!!!

I hope no one considers this to be just spam, but when I am truly thankful for something I have to give thanks. A few weeks ago when I joined this si...

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RE: Silicone stoma paste

Please let us know how it goes

8 years ago
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RE: Silicone stoma paste

If it was the Coloplast SenSura it probably didn't work well. Trio says there are petroleum products in that brand that react with the silicone

8 years ago
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RE: the lounge is open !!!!!!!! 11-7-17

Right on Marcie. The coloplast appliance is designed to stick to BARE skin.

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RE: Bubbles has a house

I thought I would tell you about my stoma guard adventure. Unfortunately I researched and bought one before reading Eric's piece about them in the ...

8 years ago
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RE: Newbie

yes you are correct. I had my sigmoid colon removed which is the descending colon they call it. But they left a they call it the stump that is my rect...

8 years ago
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RE: Newbie

Hi again 😀 I still have my rectum, but I just came home from a hospital and while I was there I was pleading with my surgeon to remove it. He told me...

8 years ago
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RE: Going home!!!

I'd be done for a week after that!!

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RE: Newbie

Oh, I forgot to tell you, drop into the "Lounge" forum. A lot of us hang out there and it is the place to talk about pretty much anything on our minds...

8 years ago
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RE: Newbie

Hi lovethatgrey! Welcome to the site, it's one of the best and Eric really knows his stuff. I am 68 and had my colon removed and Stella (my Stoma' s...

8 years ago
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RE: For the Shower

That's one I hadn't even thought about no second burn from good chili's

8 years ago
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RE: Going home!!!

I have contemplated MM but have been chicken (must be flashing back to the 60s). There is a gal here who uses the drops and says it works for her.

8 years ago
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RE: Going home!!!

Dona, Marcie and Bubbles. The explanation is that remicade increases my chance of infection. I looked into how much more prone to them ... It equals ...

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RE: Going home!!!

I just had another major blow to the gut. I was scheduled to have a Remicade infusion on Wednesday morning. It would have been the first in the regula...

8 years ago
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RE: the lounge is open !!!!!!!! 11-7-17

Oh yes, I as very menacing!!

8 years ago
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RE: the lounge is open !!!!!!!! 11-7-17

Thanks Robert. About 5 years ago they diagnosed me with very serious sleep apnea. When they did all the lung tests they found I had a lung capacity of...

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RE: Infections and bugs

The staff at Holy Cow was really good about hand washing, hand sanitizer and doing the gown and gloves thing. They were also really good about followi...

8 years ago
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RE: the lounge is open !!!!!!!! 11-7-17

Thanks for the well wishes. I do appreciate them. I'm not planning on having any relapses in there but I don't seem to be in control of that something...

8 years ago
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RE: the lounge is open !!!!!!!! 11-7-17

I have a bad case of sleep apnea. That means that I will wake up because I'm not breathing every once in awhile at night. The CPAP is the machine that...

8 years ago
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RE: the lounge is open !!!!!!!! 11-7-17

Sorry overslept, my own bed was so comfortable I didn't want to get up. Oh well better late than never. Here's the rosewater

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