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RE: Refuse bags to house colostomy bag change

@chelly Thank you. I'll take a look at them.

4 hours ago
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RE: Refuse bags to house colostomy bag change

@chelly Unfortunately all our grocery stores just have reusable bags not plastic bags.

16 hours ago
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RE: Tip for those who are fed with the cheap cloth material on Hollister bags

@cygo Thanks lol. I love the zombies. I also made a plain black one.

2 years ago
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RE: Tip for those who are fed with the cheap cloth material on Hollister bags

Here's an update as I've been living with a colostomy for 6 years now. I completely ditched Hollister as I was having so many problems with them. Aft...

2 years ago
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RE: Colorectal cancer and ostomies

I have stage 3c colorectal cancer. I have barbie butt now and a permanent colostomy. When people ask me about my bag I tell them that the bag saved...

7 years ago
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RE: Happy Easter

Happy Easter to everyone as well. We have SNOW falling still so it feels more like Christmas than Easter. My daughter-in-law is putting together the...

8 years ago
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RE: Tip for those who are fed with the cheap cloth material on Hollister bags

My whole system is the one my stoma nurse set up for me post-op. I did try a one piece system: Coloplast SenSura but I felt like I was being stabbed ...

8 years ago
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RE: Ostomy Chat with Amber Wallace (Part 1): The New Patient Experience

I wasn't surprised after surgery about my ostomy but my whole journey of you have cancer, we can't save your rectum, surgery is booked for two weeks f...

8 years ago
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RE: Stoma Size

I'm not sure what they can actually do about that. It started out much larger and then just shrank. I've been a little concerned that it's going to ...

8 years ago
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RE: Colostomy bags driving me crazy

Kerby, that diagnosis rocked my world too. My humor gets me through that. After crying bit in the hospital post diagnosis I looked up at my husband ...

8 years ago
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RE: Colostomy bags driving me crazy

Eric thanks for the welcome. I have watched so many of your videos and I have to say you do a great job for us noobs who are struggling with one thin...

8 years ago
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RE: Stoma Size

My stoma shrank and shrank and SHRANK post-op. It's sitting at about 19mm now. From what I've seen on the stoma measuring guide it doesn't get much ...

8 years ago
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RE:Using the Osto EZ-Vent on the Coloplast Sensura Mio (w/ video)

I have to get one of these. Gas output is driving me nuts as the filter fails about an hour after I put the bag on. And it seems to super fail any t...

8 years ago
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