In a previous thread we started a discussion on our Stoma’s outputs and the unpredictability of dealing with it.
This led to us sharing the names that we call them.
I thought I would be a little bit of fun to have a separate thread here.
Mines called Whoopi.
I was still unsure of it until I ate beans.
She then became a whoopee cushion.
Please share yours.
Know that feeling! Just air? What a handful hey? Keep chatting, keep joking. It is the secret to our success! Hope today is a really good day :)
I ate beans on Monday and have spent the last 2 days with a whoopee cushion attached to my stomach! Good job it's my day off work! Changing empty pouches just because they are so puffed up.
Kim x
Great name and description of my stoma too especially some times when it’s a shower day, I have to make little hats to cover Whoopi up or she makes a right mess by blowing.
Artsie
Ann
Yes exactly, when naming my Stoma I had whittled it down to two. then I had beans and I knew Whoopi was actually a whoopee cushion with sound. Hilarious.
Artsie
Ann
absolutely! there should definitely be an emoji for a stoma. I have the designs in my head (spent three years at Goldsmith's College many moons ago ) completed a graphic art and design course. They would be yellow, smiley and frowny faces with little and large puffs of wind coming out the sides.
Kath
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