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STOMA Hi, I’m a STOMA! I am great when you think about it. I must admit I have upset many people. Some even consider me crude, rude and socially unacceptable! Well, excuse me! Just about everyone gets bent out of shape when their doctor says, “It may be necessary to create a stoma”. They make it sound like a dirty word. Listen, it isn’t the greatest for me either. I’m usually created from a piece of your intestines. I guess you know all about that, and then, just maybe you don’t : So I will tell you. . . . Becoming a stoma wasn’t my original function or job. No Siree! I used to just lay there in your abdomen, minding my own business. Then boom!! Some surgeon decided - let’s make a stoma. He had his nerve! Why?? How could they consider such a thing? Well, I guess it was because you hurt so much, because you were awful sick from a disease, like cancer; or from a trauma, like that automobile accident; or from a birth defect. Your surgeon knew that by putting me to work, you could be free of discomfort and problems. In truth, so you could get on with living which is your main function. Well, you know because you’re a people.! If that is why I was created, then why do so many people complain about me? Did you know I am not given to just anyone? You see, there is a lot of planning and evaluation of each human being before I am created. So, I know you can say only a “chosen’ million or so are lucky enough to have me. That’s a relief. You see - my people are special. My people are not like the normal run-of-the-mill people. I must say, it takes them a while to recognize that fact. And, sad to say, there are a few who never do. It isn’t easy being a stoma! Some of you just don’t understand what a miracle I am. Listen, before creation, I just laid quiet and usually content in your abdomen. Now I work! It’s rather easy when fecal waste comes through because that’s what I’m used to, but some dude decided, why not water waste as well? Come to find out that dude was very wise, because that works also. You think YOU have problems adjusting! Phooey! Did you realize that I am a delicate mucus membrane? Yet, I am durable, but some people think I am asphalt tile. Thank Goodness I don’t have feeling, but my friend the skin does. You want complaints? Give a listen to her sometime. She really gets upset because of ulcers, fungus, irritants, barriers, etc. We are a team, and a darn good one! I’m moist: she is dry. I’m pink red: she is natural. I’m smooth, she is a little bit bumpy. One of my biggest problems is my size. I am not always the same size from one human to the next: I am not always round. I don’t always protrude nicely. Then why do some of you insist that my pouch opening is always the same? You need to check my size once in a while and fit me appropriately. Your shoes fit, don’t they?? Some of
you complain because I’m not pretty. Well your anus wasn’t Miss 25 |