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

The links below represent a sampling of articles (typically one article per issue) selected from the newsletter (Ostomy Outlook) of the Ostomy Association of North Central Oklahoma (formerly Stillwater-Ponca City Ostomy Association) -- 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:

• 2009 June - More on Vitamin B12: Sublingual Tablets and Skin Patches?
• 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, Evansville, Indiana Ostomy News and the Lawton-Fort Sill group on this OstomyOK site.

OstomyOK Home | What is Ostomy? | Ostomy Care Guides | Ostomy Supplies | Newsletter
UOAA Discussion Board | UOAA Support Groups | Contact Webmaster | Search | Links