Lol so much for having to blow dry pouch after shower

Recently, a full 1.3 years since surgery I was in a hotel where the blow dryer didnt work and "had" to use a towel rather than a blow dryer to dry the cloth covering over my pouch (I use hollister 2 piece transparent pouches exclusively, so the cloth is only on the back side), as well as the cloth material on the outside of the wafer's outer adhesive. Well, rubbing it / dabbing it with a thick dry towel drys it all very fast, in 20 s or so, much faster than the couple minutes a good blow dryer normally takes me. (a weak blow dryer can take even longer). One can still blow dry to make it bone dry, but the towel dab/rub seems to remove about 80% of the moisture in seconds, at least on the thin hollister cloth, which is there purely for cosmetic reasons really, so if you use a blow dryer to dry your pouch, you'll greatly speed up the drying by giving it a good rub/dab with an absorbent towel first. I am just posting this because I found it funny that I took so long to discover this lol.

Post Edited (Probiotic) : 10/8/2014 12:06:12 PM (GMT-6)

You use transparent pouches? Are you a masochist, bro? :-/

I tend to use a hairdryer. I'll try the towel method to see if it speeds up the drying any more, but tbh our towels aren't exactly the best. Barely get me dry, let alone anything else.

I never used a hair dryer for mine - I'd always just wrap a towel around my waist sandwiching the bag between where the two ends overlapped and in the ten minutes or so it took me after a shower to brush my teeth, etc it'd always be dry by that time. I also used the hollister clear bags.

Think of all the time you'll save now!

Lol, yeah I like my pouches simple- eliminating the outer cloth covering seems to lower the profile another hair and I like being able to see at a glance during emptyings what is happening. It also dries even faster. As for drying the skin before throwing on a new wafer, I just dab it for 20 s or so with a couole patient wipe thingies (hospital version of paper towels)-- no lotions, potions, pastes or whatnot for me. i dab it dry in 15-20 s and it is bone dry by my standards. If there is old eakin seal residue that survibes the gentle fingernail removal during the hot shower, I leave it on to melt into the new eakin seal. This setup lasts 4-5 days reliably.

Hey Probiotic, I thought the "cloth" on the underside was for comfort so the plastic doesn't stick to the skin. To me, a hair dryer is a basic "tool" I use for drying whatever needs to be dried. We guys can develop rashes if we don't dry certain parts properly. I'm a Catholic and, before the ostomy, if someone suggested using a hair drier between my legs I probably would've asked "Do I need to go to confession after that?" Since the ostomy, of course, lots of things are different.
I also use transparent bags because I am psychotic with cleaning out my bag with water, mouthwash, more water and TP. I also like to see the condition of the stoma occasionally.
Sincerely,
Mike