Stoma Again !!!

Hi Folks,

Sorry for not posting. We spent a lovely night at our friends in Athboy yesterday and it was a good break away from home. We all enjoyed ourselves. Many thanks to Sonia and Gerry for being wonderful hosts. I help Gerry with his laptop and cleaned out his slow bootup problem. I also showed him how to utilise usenet to download stuff.

We came home today and settle down to a cold house as we had ran out of oil in the weekend. I started a fire. Soon our lounge and kitchen were warm. I started to make dinner and during that I started to feel pains in my mid drift again. So I went for a sit down and that was when I discovered I had another small leak in my bag. I proceeded to change out the gear. It was a very depressing moment as my lower colon stoma had again increased in size and it looked inflamed. When I wiped it it seem that it was weeping and the wipe was red with blood. Needless to say I was slightly in shock and sat on the toilet, covering my stoma with a wipe to stop the discharge. I sat for like 5 mins thinking, then I pulled myself together and went about sorting myself out. After I reassemble the stoma gear I had encounter the dreaded leaks again. The was due to my enlarge stoma wetting the adhesive that sticks the bag onto the bag's base plate. So I went and used the hair dryer to help dry it out. To my surprise it worked. So I proceeded to blow dry the rest of the bag adhesive ring. I was assuming that heat from the hair dryer was helping the "sticking" factor on the bag adhesive ring. I felt really good that that work. We soon see as I am heading off to bed.

Anyway I was very close to head off to hospital to see if the medical staff there can help me. I discussed that option with Elaine and we decided to wait till the morning to see how I felt. I took some drugs to stop the pain and to help with the blockage. I am not too sure on how to tackle the blockage, so I will be phoning the hospital tomorrow to see if they can give me advice.

If I was not in a strong mode of thinking, this may would had severely damage my self esteem and I would had let the depression sink in. I get thinking positive thoughts like I have two more session to go till my treatment is complete and this is just another minor annoyance that will fix itself in due time with or without a medical help.

The funny side of all this is that I really need to have a "dump"....

Night Folks and Sweet Dreams...

Sai