I honestly went back and forth in my mind about whether or not to share what I have been doing for the past few weeks because it is a little embarrassing. I have skin irritation around my stoma and I know that the more I get the area wet, the worse it is. {Also the […]
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Showering in the Locker Room
After I took a shower at the gym, I wasn’t sure how I would manage to blow dry my ostomy in public. The first few times, it wasn’t crowded which meant that I was in that part of the locker room alone. But the other day, there was a lot more people there than usual. […]
Part 2: How Having an Ostomy Affects Relationships
A couple days ago, I wrote a little background on my love life as an ostomate here. It was the first time I talked about this part of my life in any detail on my blog, and to anyone other than incredibly close girlfriends. It felt so great to open up and made me realize […]
Part 1: My Love Life as an Ostomate
On World Ostomy Day, I posted a question on The Crohns and Ulcerative Colitis Diaries: Living with IBD facebook support page What is one question you’d like to ask someone who has an ostomy? Or if you have it yourself, is there something you’d like to ask your fellow ostomates? Most of the questions I […]
Rethinking a bit
This past weekend I had the chance to connect with a fellow IBDer who had participated in a few of the online chats that my friend Sara and I try to do weekly. It was a really great experience but also a little eye opening in a way for me. When I started this blog […]