From: bbarstad@... <bbarstad@...>
Subject: [stomacentralint] hello
To: stomacentralint@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, January 5, 2009, 1:10 PM

Hello My name is Bev, thank God I found this group, heres a little
about me. I have been sick for over a year when the doctors decided
that I needed a colonostomy to see what was wrong, well it was to late
I didn't leave the hospital for a month, I had a blockage so bad they
had to remove the whole colon and now I have an ileostomy, learning to
live with this thing is one of the hardest things that I have ever done
the depression is so bad that I wont even leave the house, fear from
leaks keep me in, I thought if I could find some kind of support that
maybe I could work my way through some of this that haunts me, I want
to start back to work next month but I'm afraid, there is so much to
learn, and hope that I will make some good friends. Bev