Well, that flange from Nuhope did not last at all. I had to change it yesterday. So then I decided to put on one I had left from the Marlen Company. Bad idea. It was leaking when I was in bed last night so I had to get up at 1:30 in the morning and spend an hour in the bathroom cleaning the glue off my belly and getting it real clean so I could put another flange on. My belly is so red from all these changes. I have a Coloplast on now but right now at 10:30 in the morning I can feel that it is not going to last either. I did not get any sleep after I got back in bed at 2:30 am. I'm starting to get depressed over all this flange and changing stuff. I so wish I could just find the one product that would stick but with the flab and movement of my belly when I sit and stand and the Stoma being so inverted it just seems hopeless to me. But I will keep trying. I tried the wafer thin seals that the Salts Healthcare Co. sent me. They go on like a second skin. They stuck real good around my Stoma but then I had to add more seal to that and put the flange on. Then I could see it all pull right back away from my skin. So that isn't working. I have that on right now. The Nuhope flange has the deepest convex to it and seemed to work the best but then it had to go and leak in one little spot at the bottom. All my leaks are at the bottom because that is how the stuff flows into my bag when I am up and about all day. And my stoma just doesn't stick out enough to let it go out and into the bag. It lays there inside the flange area too much and then runs into the bag. It breaks down any glue that is on the flange I guess.
I wish I could come up with a solution to all this. I keep thinking why can't I just insert a cone shaped device and let that stick out far enough to drain into the bag? They do irrigations of these things and do have cone shaped devices that they insert. It seems that somehow they could make something soft enough to insert into my stoma. Sort of like a mini funnel that could stay in all the time. And some people where caps on their Stoma's because they are regulated so much to when they go that they don't even need a bag on all day or maybe at night. That must be nice! I'd have to quit eating all together so that nothing would come out. I can't do that!! And I've never eaten just three meals a day so that I could be regulated. I eat mini meals all day long about two or three hours apart.
So I am going to keep researching. Maybe I'll find something somewhere.
My back ache has just about gone this morning. I do feel much better than I did yesterday. Now if I could just get my knee to stop hurting and my head to stop feeling like I'm about to have a stroke or something. The pain in my right side around to the back was bothering me a lot last night too. I still think that is from my crooked spine. It bulges out too much in that area.
But I'm alive and still here to see another day and I'm happy! The squirrels and birds are all over the place outside. It's snowing a bit but it's going to get up to about 30 today and maybe up to 40 and rain tomorrow. What a difference!
Only saw one lone deer last night. It was the one with the bashed up nose. The more I look at him he looks like the same one from last year. Wonder if his nose just stays like that all the time. Maybe he is constantly scratching it. It does look raw and bloody. Poor thing. And it looks like he still has the Burdock stuck to his rear like last year also. And he was always by himself a lot back then. So I do think it is the same one.
I don't know how this day will go but I will make it the best I can and try not to let anything get me down too much. I've never been a depressed type person.
Have a nice day everyone!
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