The week-before prep, disclosure decisions, bathroom logistics, and the desk-drawer kit that turns the return to work into a 2-week reset, not a months-long anxiety.
The closet audit, 3 silhouettes that always work, 3 to retire, the undergarment layer that changes everything, and the 4-step outfit test for any new piece.
The 4-phase exercise hierarchy that protects the stoma site and prevents parastomal hernia, walking, gentle core, resistance bands, lifting with the belt.
Solo first, the conversation, positioning practicalities, the cover-or-not decision, the framework most ostomates wish they had been handed about sex after surgery.
Two weeks out, travel day, at destination, coming home, the 4-phase framework that turns the first post-surgery trip from terrifying to ordinary.