Alt text: background photo of a serene yet empowering natural environment featuring a close up midsection of a person with a colostomy bag wearing a croptop. Text reads “People say ‘opinions are like assholes; everybody’s got one’. But not everybody does. I, for example, am factually correct about everything.”
anal must be great
Sparrowette@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Don’t people with colostomy bags still have buttholes though? Pardon my ignorance if incorrect.
Aremel@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You’re right, the structure is still there. Their digestive system just got rerouted to another opening.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
It’s finger/thumb rectangle/square situation.
Not all people with a colostomy bag have their anus sewn shut, but everyone with their anus sewn shut have a colostomy bag.
In cases like having an abdominoperineal resection for colorectal cancer, the rectum is sometimes removed and the anus sewn shut
leisesprecher@feddit.org 1 week ago
Wait, so some people just have a dangling piece of colon attached to nothing but their anus?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Some do, some don’t. Depends whether they/you think you’re getting hooked back up eventually.
kn33@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I suppose it might be possible to have an injury that results in not having an anus, but it’s not an inherent part of having a colostomy bag.