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Recent content by kossy

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    All of you rock!

    I've had an ileostomy for over ten years now. I've been through a lot of crazy things, a lot of the times I had to figure solutions out myself a long time ago. I felt like an ostomy Mcgyver at times. I wouldn't say I thought I knew it all, but I thought I knew quite a bit. Everytime I come on...
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    Idiosyncrasy

    Fun with Appliances! Does any one else have some kind of quirks when it comes to their ostomy? Psychologically I sometimes think my bag is my "security blanket." I catch myself just putting my hand over may stoma, touch my bag, always adjusting how its hanging even when non of this is...
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    Strange dreams

    So the last few night when I fall asleep I am having crazy flash back dreams. I am having very vivid dreams of when I was about 5-6 years old laying in my bed/floor of my childhood room balling my eyes out in utter pain. I mean exactly what I did back then. When I wake up I am curled in a...
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    The Real Cost of a Bag

    Hey everyone, hope everyone is doing well. I just need to vent a little anger right now. It's been just over ten years living with an ostomy. I really can't complain about it, it's saved my life and I am alive because of it. I have always been with insurance, really really great insurance...
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    Slurppee

    My Slurppee from 7-11 has a stoma too.
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    How to answer a tricky question.

    The last few months my wife has been asking me the same question over and over. That is if I am afraid I might die because of Crohn's. My responce is no, I am not going to worry about my Crohn's or what might happen to me in the future. That's the truth. I don't have the midset of all the...
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    The Ostomy Commandments

    I believe all of us with an ostomy do certain things for or about our ostomy almost in a relgious fashion. Maybe how we set up and prep during a change or making sure you have some supplies on you before you leave the house for any where. So what is your ostomy commandment? Here is mine...
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    Crohn's isn't always a bad thing.

    Over the past two and a half decades, I'm thirty two now, I have come to just with this disease. I'd Crohn's for almost my whole life, you could say I don't know any better or what it's like living without Crohn's. Either way it's just part of my life. Sure it's not always been a life filled...
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