A TRICKY STICKY SITUATION.
When faced with tricky situations,
solutions need investigations
into what is needed and
what will work for us first-hand.
We need to turn into detectives,
to seek alternative perspectives
and find some ways around the blocks
or make the keys to fit the locks.
In recent times, with one such block
I had a fairly minor shock,
when sticky spray for stoma stuff
was stopped and we were told ‘that’s tough’.
Little else would fit the bill
for those of us who still fulfil
the routines of the stoma life
complete with all the stress and strife.
How now to make the stoma bag
stick to the skin so not to sag
or leak when we don’t want it to
sometimes in public and in view.
As my enquiries unfurled
within the narrow stoma world,
I could not find the sort of glue
that I had used and was used to.
So, being me, I naturally
tried to think more laterally
and then the answer came to me
that previously I did not see.
A bag is not the only thing
that needs to stick and then to cling
to the body steadily
yet can be found quite readily.
Prosthetics are the way to go,
for surely folks who use them know
what’s good to stick them on their skin
could be for stoma’s a win-win.
Prosthetics aren’t just legs and hands,
for in that field one understands
that other things can also be
prosthetics for our poo and pee.
Think of it, that Botox fits,
along with wigs and eyelash kits
and even contact lenses might
be prosthetics for our sight.
So, stoma bags and base-plates are
to be viewed as not that far
from prosthetics now in use
and so we know we may adduce.
With this, alternate point of view,
stoma devices are there to
be a prosthetic on our tum
to catch the waste from our new bum.
Thus, it would seem legitimate
or us, when things so intimate,
need solutions others know
should be the way that we could go.
I have a latex allergy,
so this is little use to me,
but silicone seems quite okay
and that is what I used today.
Although it has a different name
it sticks my base-plate just the same,
so, in the future I will pick
prosthetic adhesive for my stick.
Be Withers 2022
When faced with tricky situations,
solutions need investigations
into what is needed and
what will work for us first-hand.
We need to turn into detectives,
to seek alternative perspectives
and find some ways around the blocks
or make the keys to fit the locks.
In recent times, with one such block
I had a fairly minor shock,
when sticky spray for stoma stuff
was stopped and we were told ‘that’s tough’.
Little else would fit the bill
for those of us who still fulfil
the routines of the stoma life
complete with all the stress and strife.
How now to make the stoma bag
stick to the skin so not to sag
or leak when we don’t want it to
sometimes in public and in view.
As my enquiries unfurled
within the narrow stoma world,
I could not find the sort of glue
that I had used and was used to.
So, being me, I naturally
tried to think more laterally
and then the answer came to me
that previously I did not see.
A bag is not the only thing
that needs to stick and then to cling
to the body steadily
yet can be found quite readily.
Prosthetics are the way to go,
for surely folks who use them know
what’s good to stick them on their skin
could be for stoma’s a win-win.
Prosthetics aren’t just legs and hands,
for in that field one understands
that other things can also be
prosthetics for our poo and pee.
Think of it, that Botox fits,
along with wigs and eyelash kits
and even contact lenses might
be prosthetics for our sight.
So, stoma bags and base-plates are
to be viewed as not that far
from prosthetics now in use
and so we know we may adduce.
With this, alternate point of view,
stoma devices are there to
be a prosthetic on our tum
to catch the waste from our new bum.
Thus, it would seem legitimate
or us, when things so intimate,
need solutions others know
should be the way that we could go.
I have a latex allergy,
so this is little use to me,
but silicone seems quite okay
and that is what I used today.
Although it has a different name
it sticks my base-plate just the same,
so, in the future I will pick
prosthetic adhesive for my stick.
Be Withers 2022
