June 06, 2009 
Crohn’s Disease: Advanced Treatments
Written By: Sara Wykes, Health Editor, 3/14/2008
Reviewed By: Paul Auerbach, MD, […]
My Heart Ties
The world’s most beautiful ostomy pouch covers.
Crohn’s Disease: Advanced Treatments
One Hot Ostomate…Summer Time
Choose bathing suit colors or patterns that will hide your ostomy.
Women can get a bathing suit that has a special lining, or they can wear stretch panties under their bathing suit to hold the pouch in place.
Men can wear bike shorts underneath their bathing suit, or wear swim trunks and a tank top.
Always empty your […]
Handicapped toilets part two
~ Comments on the previous post.
•Handicaped toilets are for any people with handicaps not just those in a wheelchair. People with stomas need access to a sink right there. Normally constructed people would have a fit if you started wiping your stoma at a normal open sink in full view. you have every right to use […]
So I explained that I had a medical reason to use the handicapped toilet
From a support group chat forum…
~I am sympathetic to people in wheelchairs, and if a person with a wheelchair came in while I was waiting, of course I would let them go first. It is true that I can fit into a regular stall. But with the ileostomy and getting all of my stuff together and […]
August is Ostomy Awareness Month
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Ostomy is a type of surgery which allows for drainage when a person has lost the normal function of digestive or urinary systems due to birth defects, disease, injury or other disorders. Nearly 1.5 million Americans have had ostomy surgery, and approximately 125,000 new ostomates join […]
Need for Control~Having None
Copyright © 2004 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Boundary breaches: the body, sex and sexuality after stoma surgery
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Lenore Manderson,
Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society, Department of Public Health, The University of Melbourne, 1/305 Cardigan […]
Struggle for Intimacy
Intelligent people, through their ability to analyze, often realize things which are disconcerting, which others would not see. They also are often capable of feeling more deeply, both pain and joy.
Adapted […]
Coming Full Circle
Coming Full Circle
Breaking free from a life of fear
By Leah Humphries
As long as I can remember, I’ve been an artist. The talent comes from my parents. As a little girl, I spent hours coloring and drawing. I later graduated to painting and assembling collages with torn photographs from fashion magazines. It was no shock to […]
The launch of the one piece My Heart Tie Ostomy Pouch Cover!
Many of you have asked when we would create
the My Heart Tie ostomy pouch cover for
the one-piece user and we have. It will be available on our
website site just in time for the holidays.
My Heart Tie One Piece will be available in Red (Elizabeth) as well
as Black (Alexandra). They have been tested and they’ve received
excellent […]