#colostomy bag

[artfromrainydays]

Happy disability pride month!

Wanted to share the new ghosties with some mobility aids and medical devices! Remember, you are valid! Take care of yourself this pride month.

[weheartstims]

A stimboard with ostomy bags!

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[keezybees]

Ready or not, here I come

prints!

[otomestims]

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Happy disability pride month!!

[thatmissquin]

Thank you to everyone for the happy birthday wishes & checking in. Husband's surgery went well & the home care nurse stopped by. Only time will tell if this was the right choice I have faith it will all work out. Thank you for your continued love & support. I feel so cherished.

[monsterbux]

April 27, 2025

he's been bad

[stormanbates]

Headcanon: Mikey has a colostomy bag. When Mikey was mutated, he was so young that his yolk sac was still attached. During the whole kerfuffle between Lou and Draxum, Mikey's yolk sac became detached, and it never absorbed properly, so his digestive system was deformed. As a baby, he had horrible cramps, diarrhea and constipation, that Lou finally took him to a doctor in the Hidden City, who told him that Mikey's intestine was deformed and needed to be operated on. The doctor did surgery on the poor child. As a result, Mikey's intestine isn't connected to the rest of his bowels, but instead, his stoma sticks outside his body, where a colostomy bag catches his waste. Unlike his brothers, Mikey has to empty his colostomy bag into the toilet several times a day and replace his bag daily. Raph is super protective of Mikey for being in such a delicate state and insisted on Mikey wearing a stoma belt to protect his bag and exposed intestine during missions. During the first 5 years of having the bag, Splinter found that the boy was super active and didn't know you had to keep the thing on, and when it overflows, it REEKS! Nonetheless, Mikey doesn't let his colostomy bag get in the way of anything.

(I made this headcanon because I have a neice that's almost 2 years old. She has Down syndrome, and this poor little girl has had more hospital stays and surgeries than any of her siblings combined. When she was 9 days old, she was helicoptered to our state's best hospital for surgery. My little baby neice had an underdeveloped intestine and wasn't absorbing nutrients, so she had a colostomy bag for over a year. Very recently, she had surgery to correct it, and now she wears diapers.)

[presentlyk]

Tips To Care For Your Colostomy Pouch

Good quality of life with an ostomy almost entirely depends on how well you take care of your pouch and stoma.

The good thing about a colostomy is that it treats the chronic condition that could have painful for your entire life. You may have to undergo a colostomy procedure if you face conditions like bowel cancer, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn’s disease. A colostomy provides instant and permanent relief from painful and life-threatening symptoms of such conditions. This surgery, however, brings a significant change in your lifestyle. You will need to take care of your stoma and the ostomy pouch that you wear to manage your stool evacuations.

The surgeon will create a stoma after removing a part of your colon. The stoma is the end of the healthy part of the bowel, sticking out on the abdomen. It is the opening of the bowel diversion that your surgeon creates to bypass the removed or rested section of the bowel. The waste materials pass out of the stoma and store into an ostomy bag fitted over the stoma. During your hospital stay, your ostomy care nurse will teach you how to use and take care of your ostomy pouch.

Caring for your colostomy pouch

The two parts of an ostomy pouch include a skin barrier, also known as a flange, and a pouch. The flange has an opening that fits over the stoma, allowing the stoma to open into the pouch. It may be overwhelming to manage a pouch at first, but it gets easier with time. The following tips may be helpful in this regard.

Use the right ostomy pouch: Finding the right pouch and skin barrier is the first step in your ostomy care regimen. It is crucial to make sure that the flange’s opening is neither too narrow nor too large. A too-narrow opening will cause injury to your stoma, and a too-large opening will cause leakage. With the availability of several types of ostomy pouches, you should be able to pick one that fits your requirements well.

Changing the pouch: Typically, you will need to change your pouch and skin barrier every three to five days, depending on the type of ostomy pouch you use. You will need to change the ostomy appliance immediately if the leakage occurs. Certain other factors, such as burning in the peristomal skin and humidity may also lead you to need to change the pouch sooner.

Shaving around the stoma: Shaving hair around the stoma makes it easier for you to apply and remove the skin barrier. With hair around the stoma, pulling the skin barrier becomes painful. The presence of hair also results in small tunnels under the skin barrier to cause leakage. You may want to shave this area using an electric shaver. You may not want to use a razor unless you are sure that you will not end up having a cut in this part of the skin.

Extra supplies: Having a colostomy wouldn’t stop you from traveling and going anywhere you want. You may have to pay attention to the number of supplies you need to carry, though. Keep in mind the emergency situations in which you may be at the risk of running short on supplies. Carry extra supplies keeping those situations into consideration.

You will need to be patient to adapt to life with a colostomy. It will take some time, but you will thank yourself for the best decision that you have made to stop living under the influence of the chronic condition.