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Reply to "What Gets my goat"

I was raised by a mom who always said that she would rather see me dead than with a bag (I have been sick since birth so it has been a long journey and I had a colostomy from age 2-3).

At 18 I opted for a K pouch which was still very experimental back in 1979 (the ancestor of the J pouch, an internal ileostomy with only a tiny stoma outside)...I never regretted it. And my mom never forgave me. Any outside manifestation of my disease was a failure to her...

I have had to fight to keep my pouch. Surgery after surgery, repair after repair...because it is important to me...but I can totally understand that some people just want to get on with their lives. And they are probably right!

Maybe if I had not been 'polluted' with my mom's opinion I would not have been so tenacious...we all have to live with what works for us and makes us happy.

I hope that the 2 of you (you and your pouch) live a very long, happy and healthy life!

Sharon

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