Selected Articles from the Ostomy Outlook Newsletter
from Ostomy Association of North Central Oklahoma

The links below represent a sampling of articles from the newsletter (Ostomy Outlook) of the Ostomy Association of North Central Oklahoma — the group that started this website. Most of the other groups represented on this OstomyOK site have newsletters of their own. In fact, one of those groups (Lawton Fort-Still, Oklahoma) has a large number of online newsletter issues accessible from its web pages.

While this page contains only a sampling of articles from the North Central OK newsletter, anyone who would like to receive the complete Ostomy Outlook newsletter electronically (in PDF format) may do so by emailing a request to the OstomyOK webmaster (who is also the North Central OK newsletter editor).

Newsletter editors of other volunteer-run ostomy support groups who would like to use the articles below are free to do so; simply attribute their source to the North Central OK Ostomy Outlook:

• 2010 Mar - 2010 Medicare Rates for Ostomy Supplies
• 2010 Jan - Letter to Director of Grey’s Anatomy
   
• 2009 Oct - New “Uncover Ostomy” Website to Improve Image of Ostomy
• 2009 June - More on Vitamin B12: Sublingual Tablets and Skin Patches?
• 2009 May - The nerve(s) of those stomas!
• 2009 Feb - Can Ostomates Donate Blood? (Updated)
   
• 2008 Nov - Worldwide Adventures in Ostomy
• 2008 Sept - Vitamin B-12 Replacement Therapy
• 2008 May - Drug Therapy For The Ostomate
• 2008 Jan - Depression and the New Ostomate
   
• 2007 Nov - Incidentally…
• 2007 Oct - Hernia and the Ostomate
• 2007 Oct - Pouch Changes – How Often
• 2007 June - Why I Attend Support Group Meetings
• 2007 June - What’s Normal… Answers from Your Stoma to You
• 2007 Mar - Tender Loving Care – Your Stoma Needs it Too!
• 2007 Feb - Ten (new) Commandments for Ostomates
   
• 2006 Oct - Ostomies versus False Teeth
• 2006 Aug - Can Ostomates Donate Blood?
• 2006 June - You Have Adjusted to Your Ostomy When...
• 2006 May - Answers You Never Hear About Living with Ostomy
• 2006 Apr - Why Doesn’t My Tape Stay Stuck?
• 2006 Jan - Keeping Your Pouch Odor Proof
• 2006 Jan - Ostomy Scissors Update
   
• 2005 Nov - Vitamin B-12 Deficiency and Ostomates
• 2005 July - Ostomy Tips for the Pool
• 2005 May - Capsule Endoscopy Update
• 2005 Apr - My Change of Life(style): When I Stopped Irrigating
• 2005 Mar - Cranberries - For and Against for Urostomates
• 2005 Jan - Product News: Cavilon Barrier Film => Nexcare Spray
   
• 2004 Oct - Diets And Ostomies - What's Safe?
• 2004 Sept - Health Care Personnel and Ostomies
• 2004 July - ABC's of ileostomy hints, tips, etc.
• 2004 June - A Little Ostomy Test
• 2004 May - Sports After Ostomy Surgery
• 2004 Apr - Advocacy Report Card for 2003
• 2004 Mar - Capsule Endoscopy
• 2004 Feb - ILEUS - The Other Blockage
• 2004 Jan - A Loving Wife Speaks Out
   
• 2003 Nov - It Happened One Night
• 2003 Oct - Should my Family Help with Care of my Ostomy?
• 2003 Sept - UOA Teen Network Launches Discussion Board
• 2003 Sept - Report on 41st UOA National Conference
• 2003 July - Some of the Best Basic Ostomy Hints
• 2003 June - Things Not To Do If You're An Ostomate
• 2003 June - Now You can Sniff Vitamin B12!
• 2003 May - Visiting Patient with a Temporary Ostomy
• 2003 Apr - Continuing your Social Life with an Ostomy
• 2003 Mar - 2003 Medicare Rates for Ostomy Supplies (updated for 2004)
• 2003 Mar - Not Everyone Knows
• 2003 Feb - Which Pouching System is Right for You?
• 2003 Jan - Check Out New UOA Website
• 2003 Jan - UOA 2002 Advocacy Report
   
• 2002 Nov - Helpful Hints from Here & There
• 2002 Oct - An Enterostomal Therapist??
• 2002 Sept - Report on UOA's 40th Annual Conference
• 2002 July - New FOW-USA Warehouse to Donate Supplies (link to FOW-USA site)
• 2002 July - Pelvic Muscle Exercises
• 2002 July - Words that Don't Exist - But Should!!
• 2002 June - ACTION NEEDED: Don't Lose Recent Medicare Gains
• 2002 June - Heat Concerns for Ostomates
• 2002 May - Cultural Differences
• 2002 May - About Colostomies
• 2002 Apr - New Ostomy Product Codes - Major Insurance Change
• 2002 Apr - Ten (New) Commandments for the New Ostomate
• 2002 Mar - UOA and the American Cancer Society
• 2002 Mar - Stomal Complications
• 2002 Feb - OSTOMY OUTPUT
• 2002 Feb - Calcium Update
• 2002 Jan - UROLITHIASIS
• 2002 Jan - TO ALL MEMBERS - OLD AND NEW
   
• 2001 Oct - Pregnancy After an Ileostomy
• 2001 Oct - Phases of Surgical Recovery
• 2001 Sept - Job of UOA National Organization
• 2001 Sept - The Overactive Ileostomy
• 2001 July - New Advocacy Section on UOA Website
• 2001 July - Food Tips for the Ostomate
• 2001 June - Allergic? How to Tell For Sure
• 2001 June - Oklahoma UOA Web Pages Moved
• 2001 May - James Knight on Medicare Problems
• 2001 May - WANTED: Mom
• 2001 May - Times of Our Life
• 2001 Apr - Colon Cancer Screening DNA Test
• 2001 Apr - Endoscopy--Another Solution?
• 2001 Apr - Pouch Changes - How Often?
• 2001 Mar - SEXUALITY
• 2001 Mar - New Look at Vitamin C
• 2001 Feb - I am a STOMA!
• 2001 Feb - Hernia Repair--Personal Encounter
• 2001 Feb - Getting a New Doc !
• 2001 Jan - Altered Ostomy HCPCS Codes
   
• 2000 Nov - The Visitor
• 2000 Nov - Medicare Policy Improved (link to UOA National site)
• 2000 Oct - Tips from September Meeting
• 2000 Oct - Irrigations--To Do or Not To Do
• 2000 Sept - Report on 2000 UOA Conference
• 2000 July - Coronary Stents
• 2000 July - Perineal Wound
• 2000 June - What UOA Membership Means
• 2000 June - Ileal Conduit and Continent Urostomy
• 2000 May - You Can't Quit
• 2000 May - Keep a Clean Medicine Chest
• 2000 Apr - New Book - Yes We Can
• 2000 Apr - Drugs For the Indigent
• 2000 Apr - Acidic Urine - Must for Urostomate
• 2000 Mar - National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable
• 2000 Feb - The Aging Ileoanal Pouch
• 2000 Feb - STOMAS (A Poem)
• 2000 Feb - Folliculitis
• 2000 Jan - UOA Government Affairs Committee
• 2000 Jan - New Year's Resolutions of Ostomate
• 2000 Jan - Y2K Bug: Ostomy Supplies are Safe!
• 2000 Jan - Exercising in Cold Weather
   
• 1999 Nov - Story of an Early Ostomate
• 1999 Sept - Working Together to Preserve UOA
• 1999 Sept - Care Needed with Grapefruit Juice
• 1999 Sept - Hints on Medication and Ostomate
• 1999 July - Ostomy Procedures That Can Backfire
• 1999 July - Shingles Alert!
• 1999 July - Ode to the ET Nurse
• 1999 June - Vitamin B-12 Deficiency After Bowel Surgery
• 1999 June - Dance Like No One's Watching
• 1999 May - Urostomates: Blue Discoloration
• 1999 May - Defective Ostomy Products
• 1999 May - Importance of Support Groups
• 1999 Apr - More Ostomy Myths
• 1999 Apr - For all you Chocoholics!
• 1999 Mar - Medicare Reimbursement Limits (revised 2001-01-01)
• 1999 Mar - Getting Handle on Stress & Distress
• 1999 Mar - Expressing Oneself
• 1999 Mar - Gas in Your Pouch
• 1999 Feb - Stomas and Pain Response
• 1999 Feb - Ostomy Myth 4 - Talk About Sex
• 1999 Feb - My Ostomy Song
• 1999 Jan - Ostomy Myth Series
• 1999 Jan - Does Your Stoma Hurt?
• 1999 Jan - An Editorial from UOA
• 1999 Jan - Night Time Bowel Movements & Pelvic Pouch
   
• 1998 Dec - What a Night Before Christmas!
• 1998 Dec - Pouching in Difficult Situations
• 1998 Dec - Hints from Alice
• 1998 Nov - Facts About Convexity
• 1998 Nov - Why Do You Come?
• 1998 Oct - Ostomate with Alzheimer's Disease
• 1998 Sept - Report on 36th UOA Conference
• 1998 Sept - Ileostomy Hints
• 1998 June - Best Way to Relieve Stress
• 1998 June - H₂O Power - Drinking Enough Water
• 1998 June - Eliminate Dihydrogen Monoxide!
• 1998 May - Too Much of a Good Thing
• 1998 May - The Swollen Stoma
• 1998 May - What to Do if Hospitalized
• 1998 Apr - Message from UOA's President
• 1998 Apr - How Should Stoma Be Protected?
• 1998 Mar - Laparoscopic Colon Surgery
• 1998 Mar - Aging and The Ostomate
• 1998 Mar - Discovering Your Best
• 1998 Feb - Hernia and the Ostomate
• 1998 Feb - Recent Bio-Tech Developments
• 1998 Jan - Family & Spouse--Their Needs
• 1998 Jan - Product Profiles--Paste
   
• 1997 Nov - Dr. Postier on Ileoanal Reservoir
• 1997 Nov - Ileostomy Hints
• 1997 Nov - A New Treatment for Impotence
• 1997 Nov - Developing a Sense of Well-Being
• 1997 Oct - Bacteria and Your Pouch
• 1997 Oct - Skin Irritation
• 1997 Sept - Ten Commandments for New Ostomate
• 1997 Sept - Sitting Down
• 1997 Sept - Thoughts on Odor Management
• 1997 Aug - Report on 9th IOA World Congress
• 1997 Aug - The Bionic Woman
• 1997 Aug - If You Like to Experiment...
• 1997 July - Ostomy Visit--Seed Planted
• 1997 June - What to Say to Someone Sick
• 1997 June - Measure Your Stoma
• 1997 June - Ileostomy Blockage
• 1997 June - Male Ostomates--Prostate Enlargement
• 1997 Apr - Things Ruby Learned from Ileostomy
• 1997 Apr - Urine Salt Crystal Deposits
• 1997 Apr - Quick Thinking - Jury Rig
• 1997 Mar - Lavenia's Two Ostomies
• 1997 Mar - Nutrition for Pelvic Pouch Patient
• 1997 Feb - How Vera Cares for Colostomy
• 1997 Feb - The Flu... and what to do
• 1997 Feb - One Trap to Avoid
• 1997 Jan - How Pauline Handles Colostomy
   
• 1996 Dec - A Visit from St. Ostomy
• 1996 Nov - Bill's Day with his Colostomy
• 1996 Nov - Advice about Safety Belts
• 1996 Oct - Alice's Ileostomy Tips
• 1996 Oct - Solo MD--Endangered Species
• 1996 Oct - Thoughts For The Week
• 1996 Sept - Report on Boston Conference
• 1996 July - Ritualization of Appliance Care
• 1996 July - Push the Skin, Don't Pull Tape
• 1996 July - Sunscreens Don't Block Worst of Sun
• 1996 June - ET Nurses & Sales Reps
• 1996 May - Pelvic Pouch Issues
• 1996 May - Traveling with an Ostomy
• 1996 Apr - Random Ostomy Tips
• 1996 Mar - For New Colostomates, Irrigation
• 1996 Mar - Story that Packs a Pouch (Punch)
• 1996 Feb - Manitobans Retain Ostomy Plan
   
• 1995 Nov - Assorted Ostomy Tips

Note: Additional collections of online ostomy newsletter articles are available from the Winnipeg Chapter of UOA Canada, the Chicago North Suburban Ostomy Chapter and Evansville, Indiana Ostomy News. Also see the links to Other Ostomy Group Newsletters on the UOAA national website.

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