Archive for the 'clothes' Category

Ostomy Bags, How to Reduce Wear Time

« 13 January 2009 | 22:56 | activities, clothes, ostomy bags, ostomy care, successful actions | No Comments »

I figured I’d take the opposite tack with this post since I don’t have everything figured out about how to extend wear time, but I have figured some things that seem to reduce the number of days each of my bags lasts.
First off, I should start out with reiterating that I use one-piece bags for [...]



Swimming here I come!

« 24 July 2008 | 22:08 | activities, clothes | No Comments »

It’s been a long time since I’ve really been swimming. I used to love to swim, but as things got worse healthwise, I was less and less inclined to go. But my one year old daughter really enjoys going to the pool and now that I am feeling better, I like to go also.
I haven’t [...]



My new “walking shoes”

« 29 June 2008 | 8:23 | activities, clothes | No Comments »

I mentioned the other day about needing to update my wardrobe a bit with my new state of health, but I didn’t mention that I had started already. A couple weeks ago, I bought new shoes. That was pretty exciting! I don’t think I have had a new pair since high school (almost a decade [...]



Buying New Clothes

« 27 June 2008 | 9:00 | clothes, general, weight | No Comments »

Over the past several years I wasn’t doing very well. And as such, I lost a lot of weight and my clothes were very loose. My pants that had fit properly before were getting quite loose so that I pretty much had to wear a belt to keep them up. (It actually made going to [...]