How have your thoughts surprised you lately?

How have your thoughts surprised you lately?
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answer:Okay you quiet jellies, I will start. I have a temporary ileostomy right now as an intermediate step in my surgery. Somebody online was confused about how a temporary ostomy is formed, so I went to search for a diagram to show them. Stupidly, I google image searched the term “loop ileostomy” which was not specific enough for what I was looking for; instead, the search turned up a lot of pictures of people’s stomas. One picture was of a really beautiful young woman, and I found myself being surprised by this. Then I was surprised by my surprise. I am not under the impression that only old people, or only ugly people get this surgery; that is irrational – anyone can get this disease and need surgery, anyone at all, and in fact it is more common in young people and also more common in women. So why was I surprised to see a beautiful young woman with a stoma? Now I am wondering if I’m not coping quite as well with the surgery as I thought I was, mentally. Of course I have body image issues over having a piece of small intestine on the outside of my body – who the hell wouldn’t? And it doesn’t help that the literature always has pictures of graying seniors on the cover. I don’t know, it’s something I’m going to be paying more attention to now, that’s for sure.
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