An Entry About "The Bag"

Just a few days ago I was swooing about how nice it is now to sleep through the night without having to go to the bathroom 3 or 4 times. I am still enjoying this immensely, but this morning...I kind of wish I had some alarm system to indicate that my bag has sprung a leak!

What happens is during the night the gas pressure builds up in the bag and the seal breaks so I leak from the wafer. It's not that bad; I don't wake in a fecal lake. So far everything has stayed in the bag and it is more like a seep than a leak. Nonetheless I awoke with seepage and had to quickly change the wafer and bag and grabbed a shower to make sure I was totally cleaned up.

Now here's a bit of an anatomy lesson. The stoma almost incessantly dribbles, but there are periods where nothing comes out. In time I will learn when my stoma is more active versus less active, read: poo coming out versus not. Well this morning it was an active time and changing the bag during an active moment is not how I had wanted to start my day off. It quickly becomes messy.

Yet, despite the soiled towels and clothing, I have to sing praise because I don't have rectal pain, I can sleep 10 hours without waking up, and I no longer take antibiotics! *dance of joy*