I have hurt Freddie and I think he is really upset!!! Help

Hey guys...and gals...

I had a very very klutzy day......I bumped my stoma on the side of a doorway. I felt it after I hit it and then I proceeded to bump it again on a countertop. The right side developed a raised white ridge at the edge where the skin meets the stoma. It ached for a couple of days. After that it was just this raised white ridge of skin......

Then a month later...

I ate a piece of steak that was tough. Freddie started swelling up and going down, I got very nauseas, and finally I passed that piece of meat today and it was followed by watery output. I changed my wafer almost daily because Freddie would swell up so big the right side of the wafer would pinch the outside of the damaged ridge of skin.(because I was cutting the wafer big enough to allow expansion I cut it to fit on the other side of the ridge rather than the side of skin facing the stoma) Today I changed my wafer and that ridge at the bottom of it looks like it was cut by the wafer. It was bleeding. I put stoma powder on it, cut my wafer as large as it would go...I can see a quarter inch of skin around the stoma....but the eakin is covering it up.... The swelling has stopped since I passed that piece of meat.... It does not hurt right now....but

Is this something you are supposed to go in for? It seems ok now....but I am concerned because the cut looks like it is taking off that layer of skin on the right hand side of my stoma and if it does come off there will be intestine showing...

I dunno...it is the first time he's been hurt like this and it is freaking me out. Sorry for being a baby... I just don't want anything else to go horribly wrong.... Maybe it will just heal back shut and it will just be a ridge again....

So do I just wait, call the stoma nurse, make an appointment????

Any advice is appreciated!!

Clo

PS.....Another question....Can you sleep with an electric heating blanket if it lays on your stoma? Or do you use just regular blankets?

Thanks again for all your help!

Post Edited (clo2014) : 10/15/2017 10:18:51 PM (GMT-6)

Wow clo, I am sorry you hurt Freddie and that it could potentially lead to a revision. I really hope he heals and doesn't require surgery. I always lay under an electric blanket, but I don't have an ostomy bag anymore. Did they say it's bad for the integrity of the supplies?

Clo,

Hope Freddy is going to be okay.

NotBob.

Notbob,
Freddy is slowly healing. Thank you for the encouragement.


Plucky,
Normally they don't do a revision. I had issues with my stoma separating from the surrounding skin, (right after surgery) then I developed this mote that developed fistula, and had a difficult time healing. Apparently the skin around the stoma is compromised and it extends out a little ways-and of course that is the side I hurt Freddie on...so the skin just recessed and currently you can see the top of the stoma and the side of my colon that is supposed to be under the skin.

I didn't feel pain, just itchy after wafer changes, and there wasn't a lot of blood...so I thought it was from weight gain. (And weight gain can cause your stoma to get bigger) My stoma has gone from 30-35 mm to 53-55 mm showing now.

The good news is the hole has stopped getting bigger And I get to wait until after Thanksgiving to go back in...and apparently the skin is sorta healing.

This hardly ever happens. I was just one of the lucky ones...but life is good. Freddie is working.

Hope all is well with you.

Clo