Almost 33 years with an ileostomy and I thought I had heard it all. Wrong! In a recent posting on a FB ostomy page, a lady from Brazil, using Google Translator to translate from her native Portuguese into English, said that she was happy to find the page because she too was "ileostomized." What a great word! I told her I'm stealing it
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