Lazy Sunday again

Other than the stress about my low supplies, today went well.  I did end up burning through another apparatus when the adhesive on the one I installed in the middle of the night lost hold. I tried for awhile to augment it with tape before it gave out, but ultimately that is only going to buy a few hours at best.

I am hoping / suspecting that I had two points of failure and have hopefully addressed them this time.  I noticed on this one that my stoma had shrunk (as expected) so I remeasured from scratch and cut the backing hole smaller than before.  That should then leave more surface area for the seal and adhesion while also preventing waste from leaking to the seal as easily.  The second thing was at the point where the adhesive touches the skin.  I spent considerable extra time (and discomfort) making sure that I had removed any residue from around the stoma and on any surface where the backing piece adhesive makes contact.  This skin is a bit sensitive from the previous failures, so it was a bit painful at times, but necessary.  If this one does not hold, I will start to worry that the dry skin possible side-effect of one of my chemo drugs may be impacting the site.  That is just conjecture at this point and of course and if necessary I will discuss with my medical team.

Otherwise we watched seasons 3 and 4 of Black Adder and chilled for the day.

 

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