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The Bad Tummy Foundation
The Bad Tummy Foundation is a non-profit organization creating public awareness regarding all stomach diseases. They are advocating for research to find a cure and also provide positive support systems for all who live with these diseases.
The Bad Tummy Foundation has also recently partnered with the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America!
The organization is honor of founder Marci Baron Flatt‘s Father as he fought Crohn’s Disease his whole life and died from the complications of the disease. Sadly, Marci too has the disease, and says:
[...] without this support system, I wouldn’t know how to deal with the everyday battles of the chronic pain. A support system is so important when dealing with these diseases.
If you suffer from any stomach or digestive disease such as Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis to name but just a few, why not pay a visit to the Bad Tummy Foundation‘s website or Facebook group.
External Links:
Bad Tummy Foundation Website: http://www.badtummy.org
Bad Tummy Foundation Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/BadTummyFoundation
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Colostomy Association Facebook Group Moving Monday!
The Colostomy Association (UK) will be creating a new Facebook group to complete it’s current group to provide privacy for it’s members. The move will be Monday, 16th January at 12-Noon GMT. To continue being part of the CA‘s Facebook group you will need to ask to join the new group.
The group’s new group address is:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/colostomyassociation2011/
The full news announcement from the CA reads as follows:
REMINDER, Group move on Monday
A date for your diary – Monday 16th January, 2012 at 12 o’clock.
This is the day and the time that we will be moving.
You see, you may or not be aware that our CA group is an ‘open’ group. That means anyone can read what we are posting. Some of us will be showing posts and links to the CA Group in the right hand side of our Facebook pages which all our friends can see. Now, not everyone on the CA Group wants everyone to know what we are saying to each other. So we have decided to make the CA Group a ‘closed’ group. That way, what we write to each other will remain private.
Tidy-Pal, the answer to the lack of hooks in public toilets
Tidy Pal - the safe and hygienic temporary storage solution
Have you found yourself needing to change your appliance in a public toilet, or a bathroom outside your home, only to find that there are no hooks for you to hang your belongings or your change-kit? If so, Tidy-Pal might be for you. Although its not being marketed exclusively for the ostomy market, it was nevertheless designed by Ileostomate Michael Wood with the aim of meeting the needs of almost all ostomates who find themselves changing their pouch in the outside world.
The Tidy-Pal hooks over the top of any door, and provides you with an assortment of hooks and loops for you to hang your possessions and means you no longer need to worry about leaving your possessions on a potentially unhygienic toilet or changing room floors or your possessions being left dumped on beds or chairs.
For more information or to purchase the Tidy-Pal, please visit the product website. Tidy-Pal is available worldwide with shipping by UK Royal Mail.
External Links:
The Tidy-Pal Website: http://www.tidy-pal.com
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Fun Ostomy Belts
We’ve had an email from Alan over at Fun Ostomy Belts – funostomybelts.com – saying hello and promoting his new website. After visiting the site ourselves we can certainly say its worth a visit. Colourful and fun ostomy pouch covers are nothing new, but when was the last time you saw a fun or colourful ostomy belt? Exactly. They are rarer than hens teeth. So, if you are looking for a new ostomy belt, and are fed up of the plain and boring styles that are available today, then why not pop over to Alan’s new site and check out his range of belts.
“When was the last time you heard the words fun and ostomy used in the same sentence? I’m betting never! I’m hoping to change that in my own little way. Maybe even spread a few smiles. I make these the old fasion way, one at a time with as much attention to detail as I can muster. Each one will be one of a kind.” – Alan, Fun Ostomy Belts
Fun Ostomy Belts is based in NY, USA. Please contact them directly for details of availability outside of the United States of America.
Ostomyland wishes Alan all the best for his new site and venture. 
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Combating Leakage: Some Products You May Not Be Aware Of
I’m pleased to announce that the Ostomyland Editorial #2 is now available – it is also being added to our Lifestyle Guide as it is a look at the current product ranges available to the ostomate to help combat leakage from a variety causes. It also helps you determine the cause of leakage, and offers advice on what you can do to help ease the problems caused by leaks themselves.
For the full article, please visit chapter 17b from the lifestlye guide menu, or visit this link.
We’d love to read your comments on the article, so please feel free to leave your thoughts on what we’ve written about combating leakage via the comments form, or Facebook comments box at the bottom of the Combat Leakage page. Dont foget to “like” the page if you, um, like it. 
I’d also like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy new year, and a happy and prosperous 2012.
Useful Links:
Ostomyland Editoral #2: Combat Leakage – Some Products You May Not Be Aware Of
http://ostomyland.com/mainsite/combating-leakage-some-products-you-may-not-be-aware-of/
Ostomyland Lifestyle Guide: Chapter 17 – Leakage / Skin Problems
http://ostomyland.com/mainsite/chapter-17-leakage-and-other-skin-problems/
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Hollister Secure Start Newsletter: Fall 2011 Issue Now Available For Download
Hollister's Secure Start Newsletter
The Fall 2011 issue of the Hollister Secure Start newsletter is now available! In this issue of the digital newsletter you’ll find articles like these…
90 Years Strong
Hollister Celebrates 90 Years of Improving Quality of Life
It’s our 90th anniversary and we’re celebrating you, because you’re the one who helped make us the company we are today. By telling us what you need, letting us know what works and what doesn’t, and taking us along on your journey.
He belly flops on the couch, plays tirelessly with his friends at daycare, and runs in the sand. He’s a typical three-year-old, thanks to a colostomy and his Hollister New Image closed mini pouch. Jacob was born without an anus and had recently undergone constructive surgery when Charity and Robert Rhodes adopted him from China.
Secure Start Book Club
Living Well with an Ostomy
By Elizabeth Rayson
If you have an ostomy, you know that the practical aspects of ostomy care are just a fraction of your concerns. Elizabeth Rayson’s book,Living Well with an Ostomy, delves into those practical aspects, yet provides candid coverage of the things they might not tell you in the hospital.
Talking Points
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Colostomy Association Open Day (Leeds, Oct 15th)
Tomorrow the UK Colostomy Association is hosting an open day in Leeds featuring guest speakers and exhibitors and tables from various ostomy related companies and services.
Ostomyland will be there as we have an exhibit table booked. This will be our second year at the CA Open Day and like last year we are looking forward to meeting many people, and hopefully spreading the word about Ostomyland a bit more around the patient community and manufacturers, and of course, offering advice and support to anyone whom requests it.
If you are at the open day please do pop by and say hi. Oland community moderator Sarah will be there, and hopefully senior admin Kathy will be around too. The open day starts at 9am and closes at 3pm. There are various speakers lined up for the day. The event is being held at Weetwood Hall, Leeds LS16. For full details please see the colostomy association website.
External Links:
Colostomy Association Website: http://www.colostomyassociation.org.uk
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Ostomistics II: Stevenage
Ostomistics was launched in June 2010 with a radio broadcast on Peterborough FM, and has grown ever since. Well done to everyone there!
For more details on Ostomistics why not visit their FB group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/117179104974458/
Ostomistic’s First Radio Broadcast on Peterborough FM:
http://ostomyland.com/mainsite/2010/06/ostomistics-radio-show/
The Bowel Movement / Unwanted Baggage
The Bowel Movement / “Unwanted Baggage” is an ostomy information portal based website offering lots of content related to lots of aspects of the ostomy surgical, post-op recovery and life with an stoma. It’s also the product homepage for the popular 440 page ostomy resource book Unwanted Baggage, written by the site’s founder Liz Prosser. Their monthly newsletter has had over 4000 sign ups, and you too can sign up for it on their website too.
The Bowel Movement has been added to the Ostomyland lifestyle guide’s Ostomy Links page (Chapter 22). We’d like to congratulate Liz on her success to date in such a short period of time, and hope the link’s inclusion as well as this post will help bring them a few more visitors to their website, mailing list, and book readership.
External Links:
The Bowel Movement: http://www.thebowelmovement.co.uk
NB: Ostomyland is not responsible for any content outside of ostomyland.com
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