You'll be fine. Back in 2000 I had a temporary colostmy and I had mine for 6 months. I was scared to death after having my first surgery because of a horrible...
Neal, It has been 1 year since I had my reversal, after having my colostomy for almost 3 years it went well. Even though it has been 1 year I have Bowel...
Neal, I will keep you in my prayers for your surgery on Monday. My mom is having
hers reversed on July 7th, she has had hers for eight months. While for her...
Neal - good luck and I will pray for you too. Trish - your mom will be in my prayers as well. My husband is scheduled to have his reversed 8/9/04. ((Hugs)) ...
Thanks so much, Cathie. I will add you husband to my prayer list also. I
will pray that, Jesus Christ, the one true physician, will guide the doctors
hands...
Hello everyone, I see there are so many posts this group its rather exciting. While I am a new colostomate I am not new to being an ostomate. My name is Ivan I...
Well, Hello Ivan, I'm Sylvia from Texas, I too had a sigmoid colostomy and have experienced all of your mishaps. What I found that helped were using the...
Hello, all. I have a question for those who have had a colostomy & have
been reconnected (Or know anyone who has). My mom had her colostomy "let
down" (or is...
Hi Trish, I had my "take down" last june and I did pass blood,it was not bright red blood.I have had a lot of problems with mine. When I went home, I could not...
Thanks, Sylvia, I'll make my mom aware. I didn't expect a picnic, I figured
it had to be hard on the bowels to get reconnected after resting a good many...
As amazing as it may sound many people do not realize how easy it isto LEGALLY stop paying for their groceries! This is how the one hour television show began...
My husband had his take down procedure on the 9th. they had to cut the intestine away from the abdominal wall & spleen to make it reach the other end to...
Get a roll of 3M adhesive tape, & apply it to the flange of the pouch. This happened to me, until I found this solution. The name of the tape is "Healthcare...
Is he having Diarrhea? cstillman50 <cstillman50@...> wrote:My dad is new at this and his bag is always leaking, he can't sleep or go anywhere, is there...
Thanks so much, I will let him know. jhh11@... wrote: Get a roll of 3M adhesive tape, & apply it to the flange of the pouch. This happened to me, until I...
My husband's home now. He's seems to be doing okay. But I didn't get any responses to my post on Sunday, so the one thing I still would like to know is: any...
My husband's 34. Everything down there is back to normal somewhat - at least from the surgery! We went to the ER last week w/him having severe abdominal pain...
hey all I thought I would post this because they damn near took away almost all my bills. I think its worth at least checking out if you have too many bills......
hey, Just wanted to share some info and see if I could help anyone else lower their mortgage payments, I saved nearly $200 off my monthly payment! Takes two...
Response to < udstakprgyeo >: I don't mean to sound nasty, but I think it's highly inappropriate to use the colostomy website for your ads. (You did it once...
Hello, I just wanted to introduce myself. I had colostomy surgery on November 23rd of this year. I am a 33 year old female from Minnesota. I have had a lot...
Hi Marlee, Welcome to the club, do not feel so desperate, consider it as a challenge. Your young and yyou can move on. My name is Angelo, I had colostomy...
Hi Marlee, Welcome to this awesome website, consider yourself family, I'm a 43 year old female work for the Police Dept. and yes I believe when we are new to...
Thank you Sylvia. My yahoo is Kiven002. I would love to chat sometime. ... From: Sylvia Ellis To: colostomy@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004...
hi Marlee how are you i am 29 years old male from Jordan i live now in Kuwait and i had my colostoy surgery before 22 years i think i have a huge experience in...
I have had a colostomy for three years now and I am getting along fine with the exception of one problem. About every two weeks (it varies a little) I have a...
It take a while to get thing going the way you would like them too. It's almost 3 1/2 years since my colostomy and I am still looking for new things that help...
Hi all, my name is sue and I just got a colostomy on Jan 4th. I am a nursing assistant, and a nursing student, but because of me being sick I have to take a...
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