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You Have Adjusted to Your Ostomy When...

via Hemet-San Jacinto (CA) Stoma-Life

This article is provided to JDBS courtesy of Stillwater-Ponca City (OK) Ostomy Outlook and is Copyright by Stillwater-Ponca City (OK) Ostomy Outlook

While this page contains only a sampling of articles from the Stillwater-Ponca City newsletter, anyone who would like to receive the complete Ostomy Outlook newsletter electronically (in PDF format) may do so by emailing a request to the OstomyOK webmaster (who is also the Stillwater-Ponca City newsletter editor).


 

From North Central Oklahoma Ostomy Outlook June 2006:

 

  • You stop spending all of your spare time in the bathroom waiting for your stoma to work so you can empty the pouch right away.
     
  • You can move about freely, without holding your appliance as though it might fall off any minute.
     
  • You make that first trip to the mailbox without taking along your ostomy supplies.
     
  • You stop grabbing your abdomen when the grocery clerk asks if you need help to the car with your bag.
     
  • You go out for the evening and realize too late that you left your emergency kit at home.
     
  • You begin to think how lucky you are to be alive instead of how unlucky you are to have an ostomy.
     
  • You attend the monthly support group meetings with an expectation of learning more about your ostomy rather than staying at home worrying about it all.

 

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