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Posted 1/31/2016 11:24 AM (GMT 0)
it's never too late - still lots of small farms left in the world -

good luck on your move smilewinkgrin
Posted 1/31/2016 7:40 PM (GMT 0)
juststud, ha ha funny. Even tho I was raised in the city, after I got married I moved to a very very small town. I lived there for many years and I always hated it there. Now I'm back in the city (yes!) so the thought of a farm doesn't appeal to me. Ooh wait...what about a flower farm? I could go for that. Of course that wouldn't get me the exposure to all those farm animals and their bacteria. I'm not much of an animal person maybe I could get a pet goat on my flower farm lol.
Posted 1/31/2016 9:14 PM (GMT 0)
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great idea - maybe a weekend place !
Posted 2/1/2016 5:31 PM (GMT 0)
UUmmm, yeah.... to answer the original question, no I never wear gloves. I don't even wash my hands every time I empty...if I happen to empty at 2:30am, I'm barely conscious- just do it & go back to bed. I wash in the AM before I prepare breakfast. When I changed dirty diapers, didn't wear gloves then either. No one, not my GI, PCP, surgeon, or any WOCN I've ever encountered has suggested, or even mentioned, wearing gloves when dealing with the ostomy.
Posted 2/1/2016 6:22 PM (GMT 0)
What Eva is saying, is professional health care sees no need for gloves. I rest my case, some here are SO paranoid, with deeply rooted OCD.
Posted 2/1/2016 7:54 PM (GMT 0)
i certainly don't think it's my place to judge anyone, although i probably do at times - but my belief is that stuff like poop on the hands is about experience or lack of it - i feel a lot different about things today than i did 30 years ago - i can't begin to tell you how often i have stepped in cat puke/poop/pee barefooted in the middle of the nite - at one time, that would have made ME want to puke - but time has a way of healing those thoughts -

same with poop on the hands and kids - no parent i know has ever used gloves to change their kid - but if you are taking care of multiple folks in a work environment, then that's a whole different situation -

because of my UC experience, I've come to the conclusion like others, that antibiotics and germaphobe living were big contributors to a messed up gut, which in turn lead to the gift of UC -

so now i have to make a conscious decision to live LESS clean - trust me, it aint easy sometimes - but i think it's worth it -

glove or not, that is the question each of us has to answer -
Posted 2/1/2016 8:29 PM (GMT 0)
@Vancouver-Girl

Thanks, but I've been at HW for 6 years and I really don't need links to its other boards.

I didn't post about my mental health problems looking for advice or sympathy. I posted about them in order to make you feel a little better about yourself, but I'm not surprised you deflected it into a bizarre, incoherent ramble about psychiatry instead.

Sorry, I have neither the patience or energy to deal with it.
Posted 2/1/2016 10:35 PM (GMT 0)
Don't understand why you would need gloves. Output doesn't get on my hands when emptying the bag. So why gloves?
Posted 2/1/2016 11:07 PM (GMT 0)

ddd45 said...
Don't understand why you would need gloves. Output doesn't get on my hands when emptying the bag. So why gloves?

Been a while!!! How have you been?
Posted 2/2/2016 2:58 AM (GMT 0)
Same here. Never get any on my hands. As much as I hate having an ostomy the one thing that surprised me was how much cleaner it is to manage than I ever imagined.
Posted 2/2/2016 4:18 AM (GMT 0)
Maybe a little off topic but whenever I was feeling a little icky with the bag I would have a bath and put some dettol in it, you know.. that smelly disinfectant stuff I swear I felt so clean when I got out of the bath!
Posted 2/2/2016 4:07 PM (GMT 0)
I just wanted to add that if you are having liquid output there are the Gel Packs that you can add to your bag that will absorb a good amount of the liquid.
Posted 2/2/2016 7:33 PM (GMT 0)
I don't use gloves. I do get poop on my hands, but a good washing when I'm done with everything takes care of that. I also keep a sponge and cleaner near the toilet and sink, and wipe down the toilet and sink when I'm done (and the knobs on the toilet and sink). But then I did that prior to having the colostomy, too. I just like to come back into the bathroom to clean things. :) But I don't get obsessive about it, nor do I feel like I'm spraying poop around the room. Have yet to get it on my clothing, for example, or anywhere but on my belly as I'm removing the barrier. I don't use gloves to deal with emptying my cathether, either. Again, when done, I wash my hands, but I do that anyway when I'm done in a bathroom, either at home or in public.
Posted 2/4/2016 8:52 PM (GMT 0)
There’s so much to be said about this post and all the contributions. We can take sides, offer an opinion or throw an opinion at a hundred miles an hour, hide because we don’t want anyone to know how we really feel or just smile and be thankful we’re not directly involved. Or are we? For starters, we’re probably all a little nuts. Just ask enough folks and we’ll get a “Yup”. But just because we’re nuts doesn’t mean we’re stupid. Because some want to wear gloves to blow their nose just makes them a little more nuts relative to their own snot. So what? I just hope when one gets body fluids on their hands they just wave or blow a kiss rather than a hand shake or hug. The more energy we put into defending what others refer to as our “insanity” the more time we waste just being silly. Do we really need the CDC, the APA or Good Housekeeping to tell us how and when to clean ourselves and our surroundings?
Sorry some folks got upset but I guess that can happen when we expose ourselves to what we consider crap.
Respectfully,
Michael A
Posted 2/4/2016 9:19 PM (GMT 0)

mickeyz said...
There’s so much to be said about this post and all the contributions. We can take sides, offer an opinion or throw an opinion at a hundred miles an hour, hide because we don’t want anyone to know how we really feel or just smile and be thankful we’re not directly involved. Or are we? For starters, we’re probably all a little nuts. Just ask enough folks and we’ll get a “Yup”. But just because we’re nuts doesn’t mean we’re stupid. Because some want to wear gloves to blow their nose just makes them a little more nuts relative to their own snot. So what? I just hope when one gets body fluids on their hands they just wave or blow a kiss rather than a hand shake or hug. The more energy we put into defending what others refer to as our “insanity” the more time we waste just being silly. Do we really need the CDC, the APA or Good Housekeeping to tell us how and when to clean ourselves and our surroundings?
Sorry some folks got upset but I guess that can happen when we expose ourselves to what we consider crap.
Respectfully,
Michael A

Great post.
Posted 2/5/2016 3:44 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks Marianne. Hopefully we can all get back to what we seem to do so well. That's listen to everyone without prejudice and share our stories to help all our friends in need.
Sincerely,
Michael A
Posted 2/5/2016 10:04 PM (GMT 0)
right, wrong, good, bad, rational, not so rational, irregardless what your tendencies are, i think these would suffice in even the most dire situations >


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