Holy moly, my sixth stomaversary is here! As with past years, I’ve taken my stomaversary to be a queue to stop, reflect and acknowledge how grateful I am for the life I am living. I started my ostomy journey with optimism. I was so sick fighting my Ulcerative Colitis as I lay on my hospital bed that I welcomed the … Read More
Stomaversary Month! Has it Really Been Half a Decade?!
This year marks three decades into my life and half a decade into my ostomy adventure, and here I am, alive, active and working to be my best me. My 5th Stomaversary is this month, and if the math wasn’t there to prove it, I’d have a hard time believing that I’ve lived with my ostomy for 1,825 days. As … Read More
It’s Stomaversary Month Again – Four Years Flies By!
Recently, I realized that that this month marks my fourth stomaversary month. Time sure does fly… Three and a half years ago, I was meeting with Heidi from Ostomyoutdoors.com. She was about three years out of surgery at that point and reading her blog was (is) a huge inspiration to me. She had done so many things I couldn’t dream … Read More
Stomaversary Month, Tackle Your Fears Year
My stomaversary month came and went before I had a chance to give it the public attention it deserves! When I sit and think about my ostomy, I think of life. I begin to reflect on what the experience of becoming and being an ostomate has done for me, and I smile. I also cry sometimes, because like all of you, I’m … Read More
45 Things I’ve Done with my Ostomy
Part of what makes people nervous about having an ostomy is the worry that their life will be “over” and they’ll never get to do “normal” things again from eating out to enjoying intimacy. I’d like to settle your nerves. I’ve had my ostomy two years (today is my stomaversary!) and in those two years, even in just the first year, I … Read More
Happy 6 Months to Coltrane!
Wow has it been 6 months already? I remembered the day before and the day after, but on my actual 6 month stomaversary, I completely forgot. I didn’t do anything special, I’ve actually been really tired lately so I took a long nap and went for a nice 3 mile walk along a horse trail and ate a tasty potato … Read More