The United Colon Vlog

Hello everybody, I’m starting a new feature on this vlog: Reruns. Basically, I will repost past videos with additional comments about issues I didn’t cover in the video, or clear up any misconceptions that may be in the video.

I’m not doing this simply because I’ve run out of video ideas.

Rather, videos are very hard to change after they are created without making an entirely new video. And some videos I cannot make over, like my ostomy videos. So instead, writing out additional comments with each Rerun video will provide everybody with the same basic video plus new content.

The first video to be rerun is my world-famous Emptying Ostomy Pouch video. This video has gotten far more views than any other video, so it seems fitting to start with this one.

Since posting this video, many people have sent me comments about how they empty their ostomy pouches. In no way does this video demonstrate the only way. Some people empty by kneeling in front of the toilet, some people use a lot less toilet paper than I, some people empty into the sink (that seems a little gross to me), and some people flush or wash out their ostomy bag. If you get an ostomy, you will figure out your own method in time.

This video simply shows my method, though this method changed depending on the thickness of my stool and how lazy I was. In the middle of the night, I probably emptied and cleaned up the pouch in less than 30 seconds. So my method, once I got fast, didn’t take me that long.

At the end of this video I mention about emptying with a colostomy. Really this only works for colostomies that are toward the beginning of the colon. People who have colostomies farther down the pipe often use a method called irrigation. Visit this C3Life.com Ask the Clinician page to read past questions users have submitted about how to irrigate a colostomy.

Keep fighting,
~Denni