We are an Association of Ostomy Associations, created to improve the life of ostomates worldwide.

The J-pouch group provides information, support and discussion about ileoanal or "J-Pouch ...

Living with a colostomy. Before, during and after the operation.

Barnett Continent Intestinal Reservoir is an appliance-free continent ileostomy for those with unresponsive bowel disease such as ulcerative colitis, FAP or unsatisfactory Brooke ileostomies, malfunctioning Kock pouches and failed J-pouches.

You are visitor number since April 10, 1997. What is a Conventional Ileostomy In some people, due to disease, damage, or other reasons, the large intestine and rectum have been removed. In a conventional ileostomy, about an inch of the small intestine is brought out through the skin of the abdomen and formed into an opening called a stoma. A plastic bag is connected to the skin around the stoma ...

Info re: Ileostomy, colostomy, j pouch, urostomy, bowel disease, ulcerative colitis, crohns disease. ...

A description of STOMA HERNIA and thedifferent techniques of repair surgery available today.

Here's a message I saw posted in alt.support.crohns-colitis a little while ago, from Darci at the University of Georgia. Hi all - Here's a poem my boss found in a biography of J.B.S. Haldane. Haldane wrote it after being diagnosed with rectal cancer. I thought you might get a kick out of it... I wish I had the voice of Homer To sing of rectal carcinoma, Which kills a lot more chaps, in fact, ...

A story of one that experienced ulcerative colitis -- going from a permant ileostomy to a BCIR (appliance free) and a link to my home town. The BCIR help me regain a better quality of life. :-) ...

The the goal of this was to provide easy to understand, useful information in the field of Colon and Rectal disease to anyone throughout the world via cyberspace.

You don't have to like your ostomy - but you do have to learn to live with it. Living with an ostomy from an ostomate's point of view.

T.W.O. TEENS WITH OSTOMYS ...