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Oh no – not before conference!

Knowing that my trip to the HPS conference is coming up, I’ve been carefully timing a few things in preparation. I don’t like, for example, to travel on the same day I’ve changed my ostomy pouch. Typically, if it’s going to leak, it does it within about 24 hours of changing it. So, today was the carefully planned day in order to get the timing of things just right.

The area around my ostomy site was feeling kind of sore this morning, which is unusual. When I went to change the pouch, I discovered a kind of sore, or ulcer maybe, the size of my thumb! The skin was perfect four days ago. Where on earth did this thing come from?

It looks dark red, almost purple, and I was sure that when I gently touched it, it would bleed, It did bleed some, and of course thanks to HPS, took a bit to stop.

It completely threw off my morning plans because I was afraid to leave the house until I was sure I wasn’t about to have a leaking, bleeding mess on my hands.

So far so good – although it’s sore.

Just what I need when I’m about to travel!

I have had a lot of the runs this week as I’ve been trying to be better behaved on the eating front. Maybe some digestive juices just got too close to the skin?

My joint pain, which has been mild or non-existent lately, has also been up to no good this week. I can’t help but wonder if all of these things are connected.
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