September/October 2006
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Pregnancy and Ostomy, a Win-Win Situation
"Women with ostomies have normal pregnancies and deliveries," says Stacy Roberts, RN, CETN, an enterostomal therapy nurse at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York. "They report feeling very healthy. They eat and drink everything. Some of them say it's a bonus if they don't have a rectum. That way, they don't get hemorrhoids!" Some women find that their ostomy is more active because there is pressure against the intestine.
Occasionally, the pouching system may have to be changed to conform to the physical changes of pregnancy. But soon after childbirth, the stoma goes back to its pre-delivery size and shape and functions normally, says Roberts. "Most women do really well."
SOURCE: Women's World, & North Wind News, Anchorage, Alaska: The Re-Route on-line, Evansville, IN September 2006, via Inside Out On-line Sep/Oct 2006.
How Not To Get Better Mileage
When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.
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