“Mom! The water is red ?! »
I was not yet a teenager. And I didn`t understand why the water in the toilet was turned into red when I pooped.
I was 12 years old. The discovery that there was something red in the toilet, was the start of many years of research, medication, operations and a lot of pain.
I’m glad I did not understand the full range of this at that time.
The color came from the fact that there was blood in the water, and that blood had to come from somewhere. Mom had removed the colon a few years earlier, and had an ileostomy. There was no doubt that the colour came from blood … The diagnosis turned out to be ulcerative colitis; chronic inflammation in my colon. I was pooping blood and slime..
At that time, at the beginning of the 1970s, the sight prevailed by physicians was; that if one in the family had ulcerative colitis, one was almost guaranteed that no-one in close family had the same diagnosis. This is not right, and today it is clear that it is a hereditary disease.
So here is “Humorostomy”, a blog about keeping a positive attitude towards whatever happens to you. Hopefully, there will be a lot humor as well. For there is no doubt that soon 40 years of living with a shitbag on my stomach, has created a number of comic situations. These will probably come in future blog posts. Maybe you will see me on an event too? Because I am lecturing about this, and uses my life story to show how we all can choose how to react when life gives us unexpected cards to deal with.
Feel free to ask me how it is living with the stoma, or give me comments. Nothing is taboo 🙂
I think I’ve experienced most of the awkward situations possible the last four decades 🙂
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