HERE'S SOMETHING THAT EVERY OSTOMATE can understand. It is from Cormac McCarthy’s ‘No Country for Old Men.’ “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” If it was bad luck that I got sick and ended up undergoing a proctocolectomy, it saved me from the worse luck of dying a shortened life in a hospital bed. I think we all recognize this painful truth. Having an ostomy may have its complications and nuisances, it may necessitate some life style alterations and some accommodations to a peculiar reality, but we’re still alive and kicking and learning and getting stronger. My surgery was in 1964 at the age of 21. That was sixty years ago. This morning I slapped on my waist belt, slipped into my walking shoes, and did two miles with a smile on my face. Life is good.
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