Pooping in public...

Well, I have what I wanted. Poop in daylight hours. Ok now to calm the clustering and NOT poop myself when out and about.

Went to three stores. Had to poop in two. Had accidents in two. Little tiny amounts of poo, but still not great enough control ... I know I have to poo. I clench. Some just sneaks out. Sigh. I have pads for that reason and I was able to test my travel bag today. Passed the test so to speak.

Only 2 weeks and a few days out. Not disheartened as I have FULL nights of sleep. So it’s easier to rebound as I’m not nearly as emotional as I would be if sleep deprived.

There’s still hope and I will continue to try and get a grip as it were in the situation.... and the saga continues.

Odds and ends and Stoma wound healing

Look how pretty this variety of daffodils is!


It’s amazing how different the varieties are in daffodils.

And I finally started working on the craft room after running around with Mom a bit this week. Monday we loaded the car and worked on the craft room a bit. Tuesday we drove to the Consignment Shop and dropped off items and pick up money. Thursday we went to shop RVs and see what is out there for David and Laura. It was fun to see all the fun RVs out there..

Fun stuff.
Then today I worked on the craft room and organized some more.




Making progress!!!


We won’t talk about what is under the desk. Ha!!


And Angela’s bed is cleaning up more as well.

And with that we shall move into the health update. I’m 2 weeks and three days past surgery. Healing right up - shockingly so. The pooping is getting more and more regular. Working more towards daytime pooping instead of the middle of the night. Yay!!

The Stoma hole. Well here is your warning.
*** don’t look***






Scroll on if you’re squeamish.





You have been warned.



So really you can’t see the details on the 7th however the hole was down to the muscle. By the 18th scabs are starting to form and I moved from gauze to bandaids to avoid sticking (nice belly button scar). Today (23rd) the scabs are well formed and looking really good. Healing up nicely!!

Now to get control on the pooping a bit more and ill be set!!

Anniversaries flowers and spring weather.

I went to Aldi’s Sunday and found these roses left over from valentines. They were in such good shape I thought “what the heck!” They even smell good.


Then today THESE came for my anniversary! Wow. Pretty. They smell nice too and dwarfed the white ones but I’m in flower heaven right now.


Then Mom came over with the solid yellow daffodils you see here. So pretty and my favorite flowers of all time! Then I thought “I haven’t looked at MY daffodils this spring”. Duh. So I walked out and low and behold MINE are blooming as well. This the white and yellow ones added to moms bouquet.


Not sure why the few are dropped over.


Pretty pretty pretty!!


And the lemon was moved back into the sun and watered. Poor guy had been neglected as of late!! Whoops!! Hope he recovers well.

Presidents’ Day weekend used to mean a trip to Linda’s, games and visiting. Now? It’s laying around and sleeping. You’ll note there is a DOG in this picture. This is Bodie. He is being dog sat by Liz


I left for Aldi’s just before that fiat picture. Then came back to this.....


The dog was flat out when I walked in and raised his head to look at me just as I was taking the picture. Talk about sleepy heads!! Ha!

Me? I’m enjoying some late nights watching TV then not having any activity pooping until about 6am or later. Whooohooooo!!! I don’t want to jinx it and say all is well, but I think my body may be figuring out the schedule on its own. So this is two nights. We shall see if this is a trend or just a fluke.

Nights and days mixed up....

The saga of having meh nights and days mixed up continues.

I slept in really late this morning after finally going back to sleep after going potty for hours from 2am to 6am... then went BACK to sleep napping in the late afternoon.  Zzzzzzzz. That’s something new. I don’t typically nap, and I’m a huge proponent for napping but with not working I’m able to sleep in and don’t tend to nap.

Hoping my body will adjust within the next week or so. I hear there is a magical window of time where things iron out....

BUT I did complete two things this weekend with kids home. Went through the cup cabinet and the Tupperware cabinet to get rid of stuff not used in 5 years. Bundled up for a Tuesday run to the Consigment Shop!  With stuff from the craft room and these things my drop off should be pretty good.

So, making some headway on getting stuff cleaned out!
Next up is back into the craft room with my new Iris boxes to get paper put away and finish that mess up!!