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Posted 3/28/2008 4:13 AM (GMT 0)
had 18 inches of his colon removed! Who would have thought? Not sure when exactly, but felt strangely connected to him for some reason after hearing about that. scool
Posted 3/28/2008 4:17 AM (GMT 0)
where did you hear that? i just flipped on 'celebrity apprentice' and he's on it. i like him even more now, seems like a good guy even though i'm not much of a country music fan.
Posted 3/28/2008 4:35 AM (GMT 0)
Actually heard it on the show. I'm not a country music fan either, but he's definitely a good guy! He was saying how he put on a show one night while experiencing horrible stomach pains, went to the ER right after it was over, and had 18in of colon removed that same night. I guess there are more of our kind out there than we think!
Posted 3/28/2008 4:39 AM (GMT 0)
i just saw that part! i wish we could know if there were any celebs that were ostomates. does anyone know of any?
Posted 3/28/2008 6:10 AM (GMT 0)
I'm pasting a list I found: former Vice President Hubert Humphrey and President Dwight Eisenhower. The late Queen Mother Elizabeth of Great Britain who was over 100 years old before passing away and the late Moshe Dayan, former Defense Minister of Israel. Rolf Bernischke, ex-kicker for the San Diego Chargers has an ileostomy. So does senior PGA Golfer Al Geiberger.

I personally haven't heard of most of these folks but it's nice to know they exist. One place also listed Bob Hope.
Posted 3/28/2008 6:14 AM (GMT 0)
Oh--also Marvin Bush--brother if George W.
Posted 3/28/2008 11:19 AM (GMT 0)
Fred Astaire and that was a looooong time ago
Posted 3/28/2008 10:46 PM (GMT 0)
napoleon had one, also Tony Snow, the guy who used to do the talking for the president has one. there is a surfer too, not sure if he is a celeb exactly, but he is apparently a photographer in CA and does alot of potrtaits for celebs, he has a website, and i cannot remember it for anything, but he is in his bathing suit in the pic, and you would never know
I love trace adkins though, and i didn't know that. I have seen him in concert three times at least.
Posted 3/29/2008 12:06 AM (GMT 0)
Can you even imagine having a bag long ago before they had the great adhesives that are available now?!?! Is that why Napolean had his hand in his coat all the time...checking his bag?
Posted 3/29/2008 3:42 AM (GMT 0)
Being the Charger fan that I am, I knew about Rolf. That's part of the reason he retired. He had UC and his weight had dropped to something like 120 pounds. Poor guy was then diagnosed with hep C which he got from the blood transfusions.

Posted 3/29/2008 4:42 AM (GMT 0)
Who's Trace Adkins?

btw, I have Rolf's book Alive and Kicking.  It's a great read. He went on to play 7 seasons for the San Diego Chargers while he had his ileostomy :)

Posted 3/29/2008 3:04 PM (GMT 0)
Marvin Busch was one of the keynote speakers at one of the UOA conferences I went to many years ago -- I think it was in Westlake OH. He was just a regular guy when I met him, down to earth, very congenial. I even had my picture taken with him!
Posted 3/29/2008 5:57 PM (GMT 0)
i think that is why Napoleon was doing that too!
i had a thing before, i think it's on Shaz's website actually, about the first stuff they used for ostomies. One of the first ones was just cloth attached to your side. Ick!
Trace Adkins is a singer, he sings country music, he was also the runner up on the celebrity aprentice. He is really really tall, and rather hot!
Posted 4/1/2008 7:42 AM (GMT 0)

tbraz said...
Fred Astaire and that was a looooong time ago

Back when I first had my ostomy in '89, I used to care of the labeling and mailing of our local ostomy society newsletter. Bette Davis was on our mailing list. I gotta believe it was the movie star because how many Bette Davis' have a mailing address of Beverlt Hills?
Posted 4/1/2008 8:12 AM (GMT 0)
I also read somewhere John Wayne had one!
Posted 4/3/2008 8:03 PM (GMT 0)

Gillcom said...
I also read somewhere John Wayne had one!

You'd be surprised just how many do. Eisenhower and  Tip O'Neil just to name a couple.

Post Edited (vette guy) : 4/4/2008 5:10:57 PM (GMT-6)

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