In this video, Laura Cox, our Ostomy Lifestyle Specialist, talks about what she wishes someone had told her before ostomy surgery. She doesn’t regret the surgery, and she appreciates her current quality of life — but she does wish she’d had a little better grasp of what her future held.
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Laura talks about wishing someone had been able to definitely tell her that she was making the right decision. She also wants everyone to know that, in some cases, having an ostomy can cure the disease (like with cancer) but in other cases (like with intestinal bowel disease) an ostomy may not cure every symptom. She talks about the positives of having an ostomy (it’s not as devastating as you may think before surgery) but she does think that it is a different life. She also emphasizes that just because people may have to have surgery, that doesn’t mean that they “lost” to their disease.
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