Hi Sue,

I haven't accepted my colostomy yet because its so stressfull, somedays it
leaks alot somedays it doesn't I'm also disabled so the colostomy gets in
the way. My skin is always red and always hurting me, and its driving me
crazy. Thank you for writing to me, was your ostomy a emergency or planed?

~Min~

-------Original Message-------

From: Suzanne Powell
Date: 09/29/05 13:23:58
To: ostomatessupport@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Ostomates Support] my 1st year is coming up (in need of some
support)

Hi Min,its a reminder of what happened to you,just keep going and thank god
your alive today,Thank God for plastics? If you ever need to chat,I'm around

Sometimes when we haven't fully accepted what happened to us,we kind of
relive that part of our past,I've had mine for 4yrs.Its a pain in the ars
but I'm alive today and thats all that counts,try not to think about it,Hope
I hear from you,Sue
Min Talviharju <sweetie4you83@...> wrote:hey,
my first year is coming up with my colostomy and latley I have been thinking
about it and I can't get it off my mind.

Novemember 3rd, 2004 The day started out like normal but then I started to
get real bad spasms so my mom put me in bed and that didn't help so then she
called 911 they took me to the hosptial and they did x-rays and they noticed
my colon was going to burst so then they called a surgen and he told me that
I had a 50/50 chance of coming out of the surgery. I remember telling him
that if he lost me I'd haunt him for the rest of my life.

I just can't get that out of my head, I try to forget about it but I can't,
its hard for me to sleep because I keep thinking of it and its driving me
nuts! I wish I could forget about it because then it would make things
easier for me. I know now that I'm alive and I'm not going to die, but thats
the one thing that I keep thinking about.

I'm writing a letter to the doctor who saved my life that day and going to
give it to him in person on November 3rd 2005 and going to thank him for
saving my life, even though the colostomy drives me nuts sometimes. Before
the colostomy I would think life wasn't worth it, but after I almost died I
don't think that way anymore, so the colostomy has changed me.

I do need some support though because I'm going nuts thinking about that day
when I see Halloween candy I think that last Halloween could have been my
last one.

If anyone could give me support that would be good,
~Min~

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