Today's Good-Bye: Day 4

I was thinking I'd be clever and write today's good-bye from the voice of my soon-to-be-history rectum. Here's what I imagine it would say:

It's awfully dark down here. Thank you for not living with your head stuck in me, though there were a few times you did insert it! I'm sorry we have to part! Farewell (makes rude farting sound)!

As a recognized Diverging learning-stylist (this is from the Kolb learning styles pertaining to my oral exam) I see the connections between things. Sometimes I understand why I see the connections I see; other times I am left hanging. But there's a connection that keeps coming back for me and it's the hanging kind. What I'm connecting is that my MIL has had a temporary ostomy as well, so we have this shared experience of being temporary ostomates. Only we haven't really explored this shared experience and it's currently doubtful that we will.

I think, what are the odds that I'd meet a wonderful guy like Pooky, then to find out that his mom also once had a ostomy? She had hers for a different reason, but had one just the same. I wonder if we have the same pattern of scarring on our abdomens? I wonder what Edgar Cayce would say about it if he were alive to do a reading for us if there is a karmic or past life connection? He says that there aren't any coincidences in the people in our lives. It somehow all gets back to previous incarnations, working out karma, learning and growing as a spiritual being.

I can hear the voice of LIOS in my head asking me: Well, Lori, so what that your MIL has had an ostomy. What does that mean to you and how do you feel about that? What it means to me is that I think we should be connected to each other, that we could help each out in that part about learning and growing as spiritual beings, and if there is karma to work out, include that too! How do I feel about it? I'm in awe, really, at the apparent "coincidence" because it seems to me statistically rare that I'd know someone part of my larger family circle who was an ostomate.

How many people do I personally know who have had this? Just her! I know I don't travel in big social circles, but I do meet people and so far I've not bumped into anyone else. (I'm not counting my brief interactions on the J-pouch discussion board because everyone there is either a pouch person or ostomate. I'm talking about "real life".)

Sometime soon I plan on taking pictures of my body before it is altered. Sorry to disappoint you all, but none of you will be receiving the "Kiss My Ass Good-Bye" photocard of my anus as I don't have the funds to have them printed up. (Just kidding!) I do think I should have a few parting shots of my undercarriage just so that ever-so-often when my memory fades of how I once looked I can pull out the pic and remind myself how my tummy looked without the stoma, and yes, I may even want to remind myself how my butt looked.