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Alt text: background photo of a serene yet empowering natural environment featuring a close up midsection of a person with a colostomy bag wearing a croptop. Text reads "People say 'opinions are like assholes; everybody's got one'. But not everybody does. I, for example, am factually correct about everything."
8 Comments
Sparrowette@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 1y
Aremel@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1y
You're right, the structure is still there. Their digestive system just got rerouted to another opening.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 1y
It's a finger/thumb, rectangle/square situation.
Not all people with a colostomy bag have their anus sewn shut, but everyone with their anus sewn shut have a colostomy bag.
In cases like having an abdominoperineal resection for colorectal cancer, the rectum is sometimes removed and the anus sewn shut
leisesprecher@feddit.org · 4 pts · 1y
Wait, so some people just have a dangling piece of colon attached to nothing but their anus?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
It's often still connected to the ostomy. That would be called a loop stoma (ileo-/colostomy, I don't know about urostomies tho) the below diagram is a loop colostomy
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Some do, some don't. Depends whether they/you think you're getting hooked back up eventually.
kn33@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I suppose it might be possible to have an injury that results in not having an anus, but it's not an inherent part of having a colostomy bag.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
It doesn't stink? Let me sniff, I'll be the judge of that.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Devrom, and also it's a left side ostomy so she likely has her colon. Colostomies (in general) stink less than ileostomies, whose smell can strip paint.