Having a receptacle attached to your body is a weird and unique experience; one I?d rather have forgone, but ultimately am glad I had access to when I needed it.
Without the appliance (pouch) a person might have to continue with disabilities such as severe incontinence, bowel diseases like mine, diverticulitis with dangerous leakage resulting in peritonitis.
The people who sport a colostomy are a courageous bunch, but ask most of us and we?ll tell you that life with this inconvenience is a minor price for what we faced. Crohn?s Disease, IBS, Diverticulitis, cancer, and other diseases can result in bowel surgery with a rerouting of the colon to an opening in the belly. The colon end is called a stoma and this opening is the bowel without a rectum or sphincter muscle, so the body eliminates as needed. A person with a colostomy has no control and doesn?t need any, much like a catheterized patient.
Some people have permanent colostomies and some of us await reversals. Surgeons will use a temporary colostomy in an effort to allow the bowel to heal after perforations and ruptures, painful attacks and surgeries. Reversals are generally successful and welcomed by the patient.
If you?re faced with the prospect of a colostomy, fear not. You?ll survive, probably quite courageously, with a different routine in life, but nonetheless, life. It?s a solution to a problem, not a torture to make your life miserable. It?s a way to keep your body?s functions healthy, rather than with continued pain and deterioration of the bowel.
Do as much research as you can on your own. Be your own best health advisor. Get to know your condition and what the colostomy is all about. Learn all you can. Be ready for this change in your life. Don?t see it as a negative, but rather, see it as a procedure that saved your life. See it for the miracle that it is. A century ago, if someone developed bowel disease, they suffered a long time, eventually dying from complications?a very painful death.
Today we may face life with a colostomy, but these days, the appliances are ultra modern, ultra manageable, and ultra discrete. Easy to use, easy to manage, they become as much a part of our hygiene routine as brushing our teeth.
Once the incision is healed and you?re feeling like your old self might be peeking through, you will begin to realize that, although it may appear an inconvenience, in reality, we humans have an amazing capacity for adjustment.
You will adjust, you will thrive and life will be good.
JLee Davis has been writing for over 35 years and is published in many formats including in-print books, print articles, online publications and poetry and erotica collections. Her new age writing covers a wide variety of topics from witchcraft and paganism, to the Tarot and Metaphysics. http://www.gaiapublishing.com
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