Alt text: background photo of a serene yet empowering natural environment featuring a close up midsection of a person with a colostomy bag wearing a croptop. Text reads “People say ‘opinions are like assholes; everybody’s got one’. But not everybody does. I, for example, am factually correct about everything.”

  • leisesprecher
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    5 days ago

    Wait, so some people just have a dangling piece of colon attached to nothing but their anus?

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      It’s often still connected to the ostomy. That would be called a loop stoma (ileo-/colostomy, I don’t know about urostomies tho) the below diagram is a loop colostomy