Living with an Ostomy 

Kerry Anne McGinn, RN, BSN, MA
 
Some of my good friends just happen to have ostomies.
    Like Virginia. She's the one stretching her four-foot 10-inch self so that her head shows above the podium for the speech she's giving. After 10 years with a colostomy—10 years of energetic work as an organizer, publicity
person and grandmother—she says, "My colostomy's just part of me."
    Like Joe. "My urostomy is a positive asset. When we go camping and everyone has a
little beer, I'm the only one who doesn't have
to get up in the middle of the night to trudge
to the Porta-toilet."