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.”
It’s a finger/thumb, rectangle/square situation.
Not all people with a colostomy bag have their anus sewn shut, but everyone with their anus sewn shut have a colostomy bag.
In cases like having an abdominoperineal resection for colorectal cancer, the rectum is sometimes removed and the anus sewn shut
Wait, so some people just have a dangling piece of colon attached to nothing but their anus?
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