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Maggie's 6 week old stomas. Susan, Maggie's Mum, says... My daughter, 7 yr old daughter Maggie, required a colostomy (it actually may have been an ileostomy--it was either at the very beginning of the ascending colon or end of the illeum) while we were vacationing in Mexico, due to a misdiagnosed ruptured appendix and consequently a 4 inch hole in her colon. She only had it 6 weeks - got the reversal last week. She had every complication imaginable from small bowel obstructions requring removal of more intestines to a stomal and incisional hernia. The reversal required 7 hrs because of all the adhesions from the peritonitis. Aside from the strong possibility she may herniate again because of the closeness of all the incisions, and requiring methadone for morphine addiction (at age 7!!) she should be fine. Anyway, the whole point of this email is I thought the stoma picture may be interesting as she had 2 - one to drain the infection. I do not know what that black string was for. It was done in Mexico and my Spanish is rather limited (though it got much better with a 3 week hospital stay!). All I know is her doctor here was going to cut it off but my daughter wouldn't let him as she was scared it would hurt! That was the stoma that drained the infection - initially she had 2 bags - for about a week and that was weird!
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