Also, none of your mind was removed, so you can still dream of sunshine and flowers.
Apparently, they left your family and friends. So you still have someone to care for and someone to care for you.
Did the surgeon remove your grandchildren's laughter? Did he leave you your lips to smile with? Your nose to smell the morning air? Your ears to hear the birds singing? Your eyes to see the evening sunset surely, he didn't touch your soul. That belongs to God. If he left you all of these things, did he remove anything really important?
Remember what Hubert Humphrey, also an ostomate, once said, "it isn't what they take away from you that matters, it's what you do with what you have left that counts."
