Ostomy Dream 6: New Pouches
December 20, 2008Hey everybody, lots of snow in North Dakota today! I hope all is well in your part of the country.
Yesterday’s Stool Count: 8 times during the day, 3 times during the night.
Remember, I’m purposely going when I feel like it and not using Imodium. Things will get better later.
Keep fighting,
~Dennis
*Real ostomy dreams before waking up with a full pouch.
I woke up the day after my birthday. My parents or friends had given me a new set of ostomy pouches that they thought were better than the ones I was currently using. And I was already wearing one! I don’t know if they put it on in my sleep or if I forgot that I put it on. I didn’t question how it got on.
The pouch was full so I went to the bathroom and emptied it.
The problem, though, was that I could not figure out how to close it up again! It was an incredibly complicated system. The pouch had two openings for waste to pass through. I rolled up one end and closed the snaps and tied the strings and did all the different fasteners, but that only closed it on one side. Then I undid everything and tried to close the other side. I struggled with it for many minutes and didn’t know what I was going to do because I couldn’t figure out this pouch at all.
Then I woke up and had to empty my pouch.
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