Famous Ostomates ...
P. Campbell
I was chit-chatting with the doc at the walk-in clinic next door to
the local clog-your-arteries Pizza place ( its all fresh tho ! ) and
he told me a bit of ostomy trivia ( I was there for my flu shot )
Did you know the Queen Mother ( thats Queen Elizabeth of England's
mother ) has had an ostomy for quite a few years ? Anyone know of other
famous ostomates ?
The White Wolf
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bsko...@my-deja.com
Anyone know of other famous ostomates ?
One of the myths in my myth series has an extensive listing of famous
and not so famous ostomates. I'm re-printing it here for newcomers.
Just me and my TV and lots of bills to pay - Ostomy Myth 19
As I laid in my hospital bed, fighting to get strong enough for surgery
one of my many fleeting thoughts was, “Well, if I end up with an ostomy
I can stay home and watch television all day.” I worried and fretted
over how I was going to be able to pay my bills. Of course I couldn’t
go back to work. Ostomates can’t hold down jobs can they?
Here are a few of the many ostomates in the world. Notice the wide
variety of occupations we hold.
Annie (UK) - senior solicitor (employment law)
Paul Ashley - management consultant
Fred Astaire - actor/dancer
Barbara Barrie - actress
Allan Bawell - drywall hanger
Rolf Benirschke - professional US football player/game show
host/ConvaTec spokesperson
Napoleon Bonaparte - world leader and military conqueror
Carol Browning - executive assistant
Marvin Bush - financial advisor and son of former US president
Crusher218 - fire engineer and member of the San Diego Urban Search and
Rescue Team (heavy rescue team)
Earl/ Dutch retired Air Force officer with 30 years of service in WW
II, Korea and Vietnam
Gerry Duquette - retired, former director of environmental services at
long term health care facilities
Bill Foy - retired air traffic controller
Gary in Maine - ship captain
Al Geiberger - professional golfer
Serv Gonsalves - Director, Computer Operations & Networks
Steve Haith - analyst/programmer
Bob Hope - entertainer/comedian/actor
Irene - university resource center director
Yale Jacobson - district manager
Robert James - I.T. Consultant
Renay Jarrell - self employed AutoCad designer
Bob Lee - police sergeant
Tip O’Neil - US Speaker of the House and Ambassador to Ireland
Rene Marinelli - customer service manager for a large medical billing
firm
Kevin McHugh - owner of research consulting company-McQ Research
Services, coordinator of the CCFC IBD Research Network,
educational/inspirational speaker, etc.
William Powell - actor
Queen Mum - British royal
Jim Rice - computer systems analyst
Lori Robb - volunteer with disabled people
Suzanne Rosenthal - CCFA founder
Sam (former ileostomate) - marketing management and public guitar
player with an ostomy
Crystal Scotti - legal transcriber and proofreader
Shaz - government worker, State Housing Dept in Western Australia
Reilly Sheffield - kindergartner
Red Skelton - comedian
Barbara Skoglund - government communicator
Ed Sullivan - TV host
Walt - dispatcher for a rural electric co-op
Carl White - lawyer-in-house counsel for a real estate title insurance
company
Loretta Young - actress
YTS - retired meteorologist
Thanks much to the folks on alt.support.ostomy for help developing this
list!
--
Barbara Skoglund (I)
Barbara.A....@tc.umn.edu
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then (to raise awareness) but of course 'they' never speak about such things
anymore.
Darryl Strawberry had a temp when he had his surgery.
BTW, I met him last June at Gold's Gym in Palm Springs when he was working
out to return to work and told him I was a cancer survivor, too, and he
penned a real nice note and wished me well.
David (C)
bsko...@my-deja.com wrote in message <7u4q3b$m8i$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>...
hotbread
have ever come across.
This guy was not technically an ostomate, but was very amazing nonetheless.
We had hired a crew to come knock down our faulty chimney (developing
cracks throughout!) and build a new one. They had erected a scaffold
around it, and were busily ripping down bricks and carting them away.
In our family, we make it a policy to offer work crews (movers,
construction, etc) lunch or at least cold beverages.
This one guy on the crew always turned us down. One day, I got to talking
with him. Turns out he had had most of his digestive tract shot away in
Vietnam, and he was on full TPN, with one of those ports in his collarbone
and everything. He never ate, and only drank water. At night he went home
and hooked himself up to a pump that gave him all his nutrients. He said
that he could eat food, but it would shoot through him within about 10
minutes, so he did not eat on work days.
This guy was strong, burly, smoked a lot, and worked HARD on hauling those
bricks all day long. I was 15 years old at the time, and I was really
impressed. Meeting this guy really taught me a lesson. Now that I have a
temporary ileostomy, I think of this guy occasionally. When I am not
feeling like doing something or going somewhere, all because of the "bag,"
I remember the construction worker on TPN and remind myself that I am
being foolish.
-Joe
In article <7u4q3b$m8i$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, bsko...@my-deja.com wrote:
> Here are a few of the many ostomates in the world. Notice the wide
> variety of occupations we hold.
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novices and we can take inspiration from the fact that others have
handled it quite okay.
Arnold
In article <7u4q3b$m8i$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
bsko...@my-deja.com wrote:
> In article <7u3t8j$c...@freenet-news.carleton.ca>,
> Anyone know of other famous ostomates ?
>
> One of the myths in my myth series has an extensive listing of famous
> and not so famous ostomates. I'm re-printing it here for newcomers.
>
> Just me and my TV and lots of bills to pay - Ostomy Myth 19
> As I laid in my hospital bed, fighting to get strong enough for
surgery
> one of my many fleeting thoughts was, “Well, if I end up with an
ostomy
> I can stay home and watch television all day.” I worried and fretted
> over how I was going to be able to pay my bills. Of course I couldn’t
> go back to work. Ostomates can’t hold down jobs can they?
>
> Here are a few of the many ostomates in the world. Notice the wide
> variety of occupations we hold.
>
Shaz
Sir Robert Menzies - ex Australian Prime Minister
Charlie Norman - Jazz Pianist
Robert Redford's son has UC
Take care
Shaz
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/8089
bsko...@my-deja.com wrote:
> Annie (UK) - senior solicitor (employment law)
>
> Paul Ashley - management consultant
>
> Fred Astaire - actor/dancer
>
> Barbara Barrie - actress.......
KRobinstei
i wish more would come out about it as it would sure help us moms and dads
going though what to tell say like the school other kids and such to prevent
teasing
kim mom to terran 3 yr ilestomy
KRobinstei
this for terran when he's older and able to read, did the football player play
football after his surgey?
bob hope thats great
Kim mom to terran 3 year old ilestomy