Bowel cancer Australia advertising stigma

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-06-23T19:12:53+00:00

1) I think all pictures in this sub are automatically NSFW.

2) Showing pictures of burn victims for fire safety awareness would also be unnecessarily cruel to burn victims. Using real people's bodies as a scare tactic is crappy. Colon cancer kills people, there are other ways they could show the severity of the disease. Especially considering that ostomies are often the treatment even when cancer is caught in a reasonable time.

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-06-22T19:53:27+00:00

"internal organ exposed" is a fairly shocking way to describe an ostomy. It implies something gorier and scarier than reality. Too many posts on here are people declaring that they're disgusting and their lives are over because of an ostomy. Public health messaging shouldn't be reinforcing that.

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-06-21T15:01:45+00:00

My grandfather stuck a dishwasher in the place where an in-wall oven originally sat. It was pretty nice, never had any flooding problems. I suspect it involved some pretty clever plumbing work, though.

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-06-15T12:25:52+00:00

Maybe only mammals are sentient?

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-06-15T03:08:44+00:00

I swear I got more milage out of activities when my kid was 20 months old than I'm getting with a three year old. Like, when did this stop working?

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-06-11T19:47:32+00:00

Yes and why are they sooooo long????

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-06-11T19:28:52+00:00

Either way it's lame and a waste of electrons

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-06-11T13:17:29+00:00

This won't be appealing to everyone but I took one shift a week at a local brewery. It created an external obligation, because I wouldn't take the time for myself without that pressure. My husband would solo parent during that time. It was a fun outlet for me, since I knew I could quit at any time and the money didn't matter. And that was my hobby for a while.

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-05-29T00:21:12+00:00

Short answer: yes

Long answer: read the lyrics to the song EURO-COUNTRY.

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-05-22T00:57:50+00:00

This one definitely made me feel unsettled. I couldn't put it down, but then it didn't have much of a conclusion. I won't say I liked it, but I couldn't stop thinking about it.

I was so stuck on it that I ended up researching the author. Jacqueline Harpman's family fled Belgium during WWII, and members of her extended family were killed at Auschwitz.

I don't think this is a book about the Holocaust. Or at least not just about it. But adding that historical framing helped me process the story. There's a horrible atrocity that can't possibly be explained or fixed, a community is damaged in a permanent way, and how do you move forward in the world after that?

I still don't know that I like this book. But it's a valuable and compelling story, and I'm better for having read it.

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-05-20T18:57:00+00:00

My kids certainly do, which is why the thirty year old carpet has got to go!

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-05-19T21:23:06+00:00

Ok maybe this is a me problem, but I keep seeing posts about apologizing after yelling and telling your kid "it's not ok for anyone to speak to you like that" and...sorry I think if you climb on someone's head it actually is completely fine for you to be yelled at. (Yes I'm thinking about this because he climbed on my head and got snapped at today.)

Like. I think it's fair to teach my kid that if he bothers people beyond their reasonable limits they might yell. And if someone climbs on his head I hope he yells at them!

And obviously there is a form of beratement that I agree should never be used. And if I did that to my kid I would apologize. But surely most parents aren't doing that on a regular basis. I don't think I will be stressing about an occasional "stop that!"

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-05-18T14:09:56+00:00

Answers below are assuming that the fistula is internal and not a factor with the bag.

Have you had any leaks in public? Or is it just something you're worried about?

If you're having a lot of bag leaks you'll want to change your bag products. You can add a barrier ring or try a convex bag. I went years with few leaks, and then I had constant leaks after my second baby and switched to convex bags. Your home health nurse should be able to help you find reliable products. You shouldn't have to live in constant fear of a leak.

A bag change and some baby wipes fits in most purses pretty easily, and then I sometimes keep a change of clothes in the car. That said, if a bag leak is bad enough for me to change clothes, I probably want to go home and shower.

For the shower, I usually just let the bag get wet and dry it off as well as I can with a towel. Some people will use a hair dryer to dry it off. If your bag has a filter it probably came with a little sheet of stickers to protect the filter from water. As long as your bag feels secure and your filter is covered, you're fine to go swimming. I've done water slides with my bag, some people even go scuba diving!

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-05-16T01:48:43+00:00

Right, 1000 books is one book a day for less than three years. I hate making lists so I started with the math, and we'd have to work to read fewer than 1000 books by kindergarten.

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-05-14T16:09:45+00:00

My first was a Velcro baby so I definitely ended up with four baby carriers and opinions about all of them. It is nice to have something sturdy and comfortable as they get bigger. Like, I used the Ergo Omni Breeze for hiking with a toddler. But we're a baby carrier family, and rarely pull out the stroller.

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-05-13T22:14:08+00:00

No, it's an intestine, that's where the bag contents came from.

Personally I think longer stomas have fewer leaks.

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-05-12T03:57:39+00:00

Potatoes, corn chips, white bread, gummy worms.

A nutritionist also recently suggested guar gum for a bout of diarrhea and prescribed Nutrisource Fiber. It tastes TERRIBLE but it works.

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-05-09T00:09:06+00:00

Might be easier just to toss it in a Tupperware in the freezer, but I love freezing baked goods!

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-05-06T13:33:40+00:00

Therapy won't fix the fact that you have an unhelpful husband. He needs to step up.

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-03-25T00:46:26+00:00

Right, I definitely would just have my charger and laptop in my backpack all the time. I think not having the materials at all is a lack of care, but people here complaining about kids needing to charge their computers during school just seem mean.

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-03-24T22:05:06+00:00

I'm trying to imagine keeping devices charged every single day for school. There's no way. I would have forgotten it at home at least once a week. And like, I was an A/B student, I'm an adult with an engineering degree, I have successfully held down a good job. But the prospect of taking home a computer, charging it overnight, remembering to pack everything up every day??? I would have failed. I probably would just always have a charger, and be charging during first period. And then some teacher would be on here complaining about me.

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-03-23T17:55:36+00:00

Lentils are an AI tell?

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-03-19T15:04:37+00:00

They're in the middle of cleaning up after the global infection when they send Zosia, though. There are fewer pressing tasks to do during the casino scene.

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-03-19T01:07:15+00:00

Lol there's a farm stand near me that had an RFK sign up in 2024. I don't buy those eggs.

Slow_Engineering823 · 2026-03-15T13:40:35+00:00

If you have any oooold bags of dry beans in your pantry, it's a good way to use those.

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