From North Central Oklahoma Ostomy Outlook June 2006:

You Have Adjusted to Your Ostomy When...

via Hemet-San Jacinto (CA) Stoma-Life

• You stop spending all of your spare time in the bathroom waiting for your stoma to work so you can empty the pouch right away.
   
• You can move about freely, without holding your appliance as though it might fall off any minute.
   
• You make that first trip to the mailbox without taking along your ostomy supplies.
   
• You stop grabbing your abdomen when the grocery clerk asks if you need help to the car with your bag.
   
• You go out for the evening and realize too late that you left your emergency kit at home.
   
• You begin to think how lucky you are to be alive instead of how unlucky you are to have an ostomy.
   
• You attend the monthly support group meetings with an expectation of learning more about your ostomy rather than staying at home worrying about it all.

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