five years!!!

i'll toast to that!! happy healthy BD!!

Congrats! And thanks for sticking around offering and offering support and encouragement from "the other side"!

Cheers to that!

Good for you summer. Where did you go again for your surgery? I was OK for 4.5 years and now stoma is failing to function, swollen, opening no longer visible, having to use gravity to get poop out, etc, etc. Glad you have been well since your recent set back and that that got fixed. Rosemary

I had my surgery at presbyterian in charlotte, nc. My husband worked for their transport team and at times house supervisor of the er or hospital. So when you are married to the sometimes boss everyone is super nice. But for my last surgery I was at mercy in charlotte. My husband works in oregon right now, so that didn't really matter,lol. But that's where my surgeon sent me, so that's where I went! I didn't like that hospital as much and for some reason, in my drugged state, was convinced it had an aquarium! And that when I first got in the room, also drugged, there was a table with a sea lion. Of course none of that was true!

Congrats and thank you to your stoma for keeping you healthy :)

Congrats and happy ostomy birthday!