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.”

    • Aremel@lemmy.world
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      You’re right, the structure is still there. Their digestive system just got rerouted to another opening.

    • TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏOP
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      It’s a 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

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      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.

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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      Devrom, and also it’s a left side ostomy so she likely has her colon. Colostomies (in general) stink less than ileostomies, whose smell can strip paint.