The Gutless Bag Lady: March 2015

Watch this space. I shall get this blog up and running after my return from hospital. Meanwhile, I am adding bits and pieces to the pages, accessed by the tabs at the top.

Love Your Stoma

I said Ah, God! What have I done
That Thou hast disemboweled me
And left me here to live?
I feel as Job, my life is gone before my eyes.
Thou humblest me in my own mire
With hope most gone.

Thou hast begotten me an idiot child
In my latter years, who needs me every hour
And will not grow out of her condition.
I clean, I wipe, I clean again. Ah, God!
Is this my life, to care for her both night and day?

She tells me what I can and cannot eat;
What clothes to wear, what times to keep.
She gurgles like the infant that she is;
I can but sigh. And yet, so pink and almost fair
She is a wonder; and I must declare
I learn, I learn from her.

She is my family, my closest kin anon!
A blessing, first disguised in pain.
I smile. I feel love grow, and realize
No parents ever left their child unnamed.
I whisper Tommy, and her gurgling call
Binds me in healing gratitude to her.

I thank thee, God. I thank thee dearly now.

(Babby8, Inspire Forum)

WELCOME

Welcome to my ileostomy blog, where poo reigns supreme. The purpose of this blog is to chart my progress from my surgery and chemotherapy, through my recovery, and on into regaining a normal life, to help me remember what happened when, and to look back and see how far I've come at each stage. Hopefully it will also help others on the same journey. There will be information about different products, diet and food, what an ostomy is and why people need them. This blog will also serve to promote ostomy awareness and to help overcome the taboos associated with all things poo. Hopefully it will all be tinged with a good dose of humour. I hope this blog will be interesting, informative, and amusing.

OSTOMATES OF THE WORLD UNITE - WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR BOWELS

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