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OSTO-INFO
Hamilton & District Ostomy Association
Meetings held at Sacred Heart Parish Community Centre, 24 Poplar Ave., Hamilton
Visit our Web Site at: www.ostomyhamilton.com
June 2015
Volume 47 Issue 10
ET Night
Tues. June 16
7:30 p.m.
The Hamilton & District Ostomy
Association
Invites you to attend our Annual ET Night.
Here’s your opportunity to ask any question you’d
like, to someone who has the correct and
practical answers regarding the care of your
ostomy.
We will have experienced Enterostomal Therapy
Nurses from our local hospitals and Health Care
agencies to answer your questions.
There is no charge and anyone can attend. Those in attendance will
be divided into 5 groups:
Colostomy, ileostomy, urostomy,
Spouses & Significant Others (parents included),
and the 20/40 age group.
If you have something you want to know but have
been afraid to ask, have no fear. The experts are
here, and the advice is
FREE.
Light refreshments and finger food available
Door prizes and goodies always welcome
June 2015
From the President
As you can see from the photos on page 4, we almost
had a full house. We had a total of 13 exhibitors who
were well-equipped to offer samples and advice to
those in attendance. Each of the exhibitors also
brought a gift for the raffle. Every ten minutes or so, I
got on the bullhorn to call out the numbers of a some
of the winning tickets for the prizes. And what
beautiful prizes there were! Of course, you had to buy
tickets and stay in the hall to win them. One person
was lucky six times.
For your information, here is a list of the exhibits:
Shoppers Drug Mart Dundas
Shoppers HomeHealthCare Rymal Road
Shoppers HomeHealthCare, King St.
Brant Arts Dispensary, Burlington
Paramount Pharmasave, Stoney Creek
Rexall Home Health Fennell Ave.
Weir Comfees
ConvaTec
Hollister
Coloplast
Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation
Ostomy Canada Society
H&DOA’s antique ostomy appliances
We had lots of donations from our members.
Many thanks to:
Fay Boem
Bottle of wine & carrot cake
Robert Shipley
Bottle of wine
Gordon McLean
Car Care Kit
Don & Betty Watson 2 sets of place mats & napkins
2 candle sconces
Marilyn Hilson
Butter tarts
Judy Herman
Marble cake
Carlton Graham
Ladies’ knitted sweater
Wayne Clark
Bottled water
Anonymous
Barbecue tools set, Tim Bits
Cookies, Ice wine & brandy
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And 10 gifts from the exhibitors. Your donations are
really appreciated.
Candy Boily was able to sell
a few more tickets to sponsor
two of or local kids to attend
Ostomy Youth Camp. The
draw will be held at our June
ET Night. You will recall that
the grandmother of Hayley
Brown, one of our camp kids,
donated a beautiful handmade quilt last fall to raise
money for this year’s camp.
The quilt is the first prize. A
$100 gift certificate to the
Mandarin restaurant and a $50 gift card for a different
restaurant are the second and third prizes. Last chance
to purchase a ticket is the evening of June 16. Hayley
and Jordan Brown (no relation) will be going to
ostomy youth camp, July 26-31.
A big thank you goes out to Wayne Clark for looking
after the raffle tickets and Candy for selling the Youth
Camp tickets. A big thank you goes to Ed Herman
for the great photos. We had enough to fill three pages
of the newsletter. And many thanks also to all the
people who helped with the clean-up after the
meeting.
I want to remind our members of the Chapter
Information Session and Annual General Meeting of
Ostomy Canada Society. These two events will take
place on September 19 and 20 at the Holiday Inn in
Burlington. There is a minimal cost of $20 for
morning snack and refreshments and a noon lunch.
Please have a look at page 6 in this newsletter and
your Summer 2015 Ostomy Canada Magazine for
more information.
Please remember that the June meeting is the last one
before the summer recess. We won’t have meetings in
July and August. That doesn’t mean that we stop
providing services to our members and to the
community. If you need a visitor or help with
anything ostomy related, give us a call at 905-3898822 or email us at hdoa@bell.net.
On a final note, have a look at our AGM
announcement on page 14. I’d like to know if you’re
interested in running for election to the Board.
Cheers
Roger
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To all members of the Hamilton & District Ostomy Association
On September 19 and 20, people from across the country will be arriving to attend the Chapter Information Session and
the Annual General Meeting. We hope you’ll join us. We’ll also have exhibits from ostomy manufacturers and retailers.
Stop and chat with the representatives and learn what’s new in ostomy products. Stay for the AGM on Sept. 20 to learn
what makes Ostomy Canada Society tick. This is your opportunity to participate in the building of your Association.
Chapter Information Session Registration Form
June 2015
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June 2015
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STRESS
via Stratford & District Ostomy News
A young lady confidently walked around
the room with a raised glass of water while
explaining stress management to an
audience. Everyone knew she was going
to ask the ultimate question, “half empty
or half full?” She fooled them all...“How
heavy is this glass of water?” she inquired
with a smile.
Answers called out ranged from 8 to 20
ounces (250 to 600 grams). She replied,
“The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It
depends on how long I hold it:”
If I hold it for a minute, that’s not a
problem. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have
an ache in my arm.
If I hold it for a day, you’ll have to call an
ambulance.
In each case it’s the same weight, but the
longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.
She continued, “and that’s the way it is
with stress.” If we carry our burdens all the
time, sooner or later, as the burden
becomes increasingly heavy, we won’t be
able to carry on. As with the glass of water,
you have to put it down for a while and rest
before holding it again.
Directions to Sacred Heart Parish Community Center
and overflow parking areas
June 2015
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June 2015
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Friends of Ostomates Worldwide Canada
WORLD OSTOMY DAY
October 3, 2015
The purpose of World Ostomy Day is to raise
awareness of people with an ostomy. There are an
estimated 90,000 people with an ostomy living in
Canada. This year’s theme is “Rise to the Occasion”.
We have a poster “Many Stories, One Voice” (see
above) that enhances this theme. You, your family
and friends can borrow this poster to participate in
this year’s WOD contest. All you have to do is hold
the poster from any high elevation such as an
apartment balcony, a tower, the bow of a ship, the
roof of your house, the top of a cliff, etc, while
someone on the ground takes a photo. The poster is
about 4 ft wide. Any of our members can borrow it.
People hold the sign and someone takes the photo.
Remember, find a high spot so you can be seen from
below. Be creative for a chance to win. The more
people in the picture, the better. We could combine all
the photos submitted by our members to create a
mural or collage of “many stories”.
For Canada Ostomy Day and World Ostomy Day,
the Ostomy Canada Society will host the 3rd Annual
Stoma Stroll Awareness Walk in various cities across
Canada. H&DOA and the Niagara Ostomy chapter
are joining forces to raise awareness through a
combined Stoma Stroll Awareness Walk. We’re
working on the location. More details to follow in the
September newsletter. In the meantime, have a look at
www.ostomycanada.ca events page for more
information and to register for the walk or to
download a pledge form.
We hope that you will join our team for this
fundraising campaign. With your help we can reach
our goal of raising $80,000 nationally. All funds
raised will go towards supporting our mission
Donate, collect pledges and walk or volunteer
Will you walk proud on October 3 ?
June 2015
AGM and
Ice Cream Social
Join us on September 15
for our association’s
Annual General Meeting.
After the business
meeting, You’ll be treated
to a nice bowl of ice
cream
It's a slow day in the town of Canadaville
and the streets are deserted. Times are
tough, everybody is in debt, and
everybody is living on credit.
A tourist visiting the area drives through
town, stops at the motel, and lays a $100
bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect
the rooms upstairs to pick one for the
night. As soon as he walks upstairs, the
motel owner grabs the bill and runs next
door to pay his debt to the butcher.
(Stay with this..... and pay attention)
The butcher takes the $100 and runs down
the street to retire his debt to the pig
farmer.
The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads
off to pay his bill to his supplier, the Coop.
The guy at the Co-op takes the $100 and
runs to pay his debt to the local
“masseuse”, who has also been facing
hard times and has had to offer her
"services" on credit.
The masseuse rushes to the hotel and pays
off her room bill with the hotel owner.
The hotel proprietor then places the $100
back on the counter so the traveler will
not suspect anything. At that moment the
traveler comes down the stairs, states that
the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up
the $100 bill and leaves.
No one produced anything. No one earned
anything. However, the whole town now
thinks that they are out of debt and there
is a false atmosphere of optimism and
glee.
And that, my friends, is how a
"government stimulus package" works!
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VOLUNTEER WANTED
We’re looking for someone who would be
interested in taking on the position of
Osto-Info Newsletter editor.
Training will be given and the Association will
provide a computer and printer. If you have
the skills and want to take the challenge,
please call Roger at 905-387-6662
June 2015
Ostomy Canada Society
President’s Message
Greetings all,
Awareness. That has been a goal for the Ostomy
Canada Societyfor as long as I can remember. What
could we not accomplish if the general public was
aware of ostomates as they are with the Cancer
group?
This past month has seen a flurry of activity, all
around a televised campaign by the Center for
Disease Control (CDC) to try to discourage people
from smoking.
Their $56 million campaign featured “Julia” who had
a colostomy due to colon cancer and how she felt
isolated and could not leave her house for a year
because of the smell. That and emptying her bag 6
times a day. She said this was the worst part of her
battle with cancer.
Many of our members disagreed. A colostomy is not
the worst part of getting cancer, death is. And many
of our members have a colostomy, ileostomy or
urostomy for other reasons than cancer. Many got
cancer and never smoked.
Well, many of our members, and those ostomates in
the United States, started writing letters to the CDC.
There were videos and open letters posted on social
media. There was an online petition started, and many
phoned the CDC expressing their concerns. At first
the CDC stood their ground and refused to change or
pull their ads. But after about a month, and a story
published in the Washington Post, they reversed their
position. They were not able to pull their ads due to
the commitments that were in place, but they
reworked the ads to remove the offensive content.
The new ads will start showing later this month, and
are already available on their website. They updated
their website and added links to ostomy support
groups in the United States and Canada. They
released a statement that they will now partner with
the ostomy community and work with us in any
future campaigns.
Thank you to all who took action, signed the petition,
spread the word to their fellow ostomates, made a
video or wrote a letter - together, we can accomplish
many things.
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Just imagine if we had $56 million, or even $1
million to start an awareness campaign of our own.
Just imagine if we saw positive stories on the
television or in newspapers about ostomies. Just
imagine if people didn’t give us blank looks when we
say we have an ostomy. Wouldn’t that be great?
Stoma Stroll
STOMA
STROLL
I’m pleased to announce that our
2015 Stoma Stroll website is now
open for registrations and
donations. Register as an
individual or as a team and help
support Ostomy Canada Society’s
mission. The URL is the same as O
A
ST O
previous years –
MY C ANAD
www.stomastroll.ca
– Please spread the word! So far, we have the virtual
walk, and two chapters – Regina and Halifax. As
chapters commit, they will be added to the site.
The GI J's - 1 Paddle 1 Ostomy 370 km
Paddling for Ostomy Kids
Jim Fitzgerald and Jason Boyd are fund raising for
Ostomy Canada Youth Camp. We encourage people
wanting to donate to camp specifically to donate to GI
Js. Their donation page is
http://ostomycanada.akaraisin.com/nogutsnoglory2015
- the site is live now, and ready to receive your pledges
and donations to the event. Only Jim is paddling this
year, and he is using a kayak, not a canoe. But he has
entered three extreme races and has been training hard.
Others can help Jim and Jason by registering and
collecting funds.
Assistive Devices Program Committee
The committee met on April 29 and are doing some
information gathering. They are working with our
partners (CAET, CCAC) to get our numbers correct
and the same as the other partners before we make
our next petition to the Ontario government (to raise
the annual ADP grant for ostomates over the $600 a
year amount).
Peter Folk
President, Ostomy Canada Society
Société Canadienne des Personnes Stomisées
peter.folk@ostomycanada.ca
June 2015
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A man and a little boy entered a barbershop together.
After the man received the full treatment a shave,
shampoo, manicure, haircut, the works he placed the boy
in the chair and said, "I'm gonna get a coffee across the
street and I'll be back in a few minutes."
When the boy's haircut was completed and the man still
hadn't returned, the barber said, "Looks like your daddy's
forgotten all about you."
"That wasn't my daddy," said the little boy, "that man just
walked up, took me by the hand and said, 'Come on, son,
we're gonna get a free haircut!'"
Disclaimer
The Osto-Info is published ten times a year by the Hamilton & District Ostomy Association and is sent to all of its
members. Opinions expressed by authors are entirely their own and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the
Hamilton & District Ostomy Association. All medical advice expressed in articles should not be followed without
consultation with an ET Nurse or physician. Hamilton & District Ostomy Association disclaims all liability relating to
the accuracy of the advertisements contained in the Osto-Info. Inquiries by contributors as to the suitability of articles
can be made by contacting the editor at 905-389-8822 or at hdoa@bell.net. Articles may be re-printed by member
associations of the International Ostomy Association, provided that an acknowledgment is given.
June 2015
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NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
FOR THE MEMBERS OF
THE HAMILTON & DISTRICT
OSTOMY ASSOCIATION
TAKE NOTE that the Annual Meeting of the Hamilton & District Ostomy Association will be
held at Sacred Heart Parish Community Centre, 24 Poplar Avenue, Hamilton, Ontario, on
Tuesday, September 15, 2015, at the hour of 7:30 in the evening for the following purposes:
I.
To receive and, if deemed appropriate, approve the financial statements.
II.
To appoint an Auditor for the current fiscal year.
III.
To elect 5 Directors for a two-year term.
BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTIVE
Dated the first of June, 2015
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
For your consideration:
The following members are candidates for election to the Board of Directors for a term of 2 years:
Gail Campbell
MaryLou Campbell
Lindsey Somerville
Ron McLeod
Debbie Terryberry
Secretary: MaryLou Campbell
The Secretary is, by our Bylaws, ex-officio clerk of the Board of Directors without a vote.
We welcome members to become involved by volunteering to join the Board of Directors.
Prospective candidates should contact the Secretary at 905-389-8822 or hdoa@bell.net..
Independent nominations for election to the Board may be made by any member. Such
nominations must be given to the Secretary in writing, at least four days before the Annual
Meeting along with the consent, in writing, of the nominee.
Please mail nominations to H&DOA, 2 – 558 Upper Gage Ave., Hamilton, ON L8V 4J6
Nominations will also be accepted from the floor.
Hamilton & District Ostomy Association
2-558 Upper Gage Ave., Suite 116
H&DOA Web Site:
www.ostomyhamilton.com
Hamilton, ON, L8V 4J6
E-mail: hdoa@bell.net
Phone: 905-389-8822
Meetings of the Hamilton & District Ostomy Association are held on the third Tuesday of every month at
7:30pm, except for July and August, at Sacred Heart Parish Community Centre, 24 Poplar Ave., Hamilton.
Medical Advisors
Board of Directors
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
Roger Ivol
Tamarr Somerville
MaryLou Campbell
Wayne Clark
Directors:
Visiting Coordinator
Gail Campbell
Library, Archives, SASO
Ann Ivol
Hospital Liaison & Social Media Candy Boily
Fundraising &Social media
Lindsey Somerville
Program Co-ordinator
Debra Terryberry
Program & Fundraising
Harry Mills
Youth Camp
Tamarr Somerville
Membership
Karen Lindsay
Newsletter
Roger Ivol
Mailing
Suzanne Clark
Ostomy Canada Society: www.ostomycanada.ca
E-mail
info1@ostomycanada.ca
Toll free:
1-888-969-9698
Juravinski Hospital
Sarah Suresh, RNET
Cheryl Marzoli, RNET
Bonnie Flood, RNET
Hamilton General Hospital
Melanie Martin, RNET
McMaster Medical Centre
Vacant
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Suzanne Sandhu, RN, BScN, ET
Joseph Brant Hospital (through Acclaim Health)
Jan Brimer, RNET
Kim Vuksan, BScN, ET
Hamilton Branch V.O.N.
Vicky Polak, RNET
St. Elizabeth Health Care
Susan Shipman, RN, BScN, ET
Mission Statement
The Hamilton & District Ostomy Association provides support and information services to ostomates - persons who have
had a colostomy, ileostomy or urostomy operation - who therefore must wear an ‘appliance’ (or pouch),
and to persons who have had alternate ostomy procedures. The agency’s mission is to be of service and assistance to all
ostomates, families and caregivers in the region by visiting them in hospital or home, holding monthly information
meetings, publishing a monthly newsletter and operating an Ostomy Information Center.
Renewal and New Membership Application -Hamilton & District Ostomy Association
Name: ___________________________Address:________________________________________
City:___________ Province:____ Postal Code:_________Tel #______________email__________________
Date of Birth:(d)_____(m)_____(y)_____
New Member
Renewing Member
Membership is open to all ostomates, family members, medical and health care professionals, ostomy
equipment suppliers and other interested persons.
Membership dues are $30.00 per year. Dues include one year’s membership, ten newsletters,
membership in Ostomy Canada Society and two issues of Ostomy Canada magazine.
CHECK ALL THAT APPLY
Male
Female
Spouse or significant other
Colostomy
Ileostomy
Urostomy
Continent Ileostomy
Continent Urostomy
Ileoanal Pouch
I am unable to pay at this time but would like to be a member
How did you learn about the Hamilton & District chapter?_________________________________________
ENCLOSED: Yearly Membership Dues:
$__________
Donations are gratefully accepted to support any of the following Chapter services:
Youth Camp $______ Bursary Fund $ ______ Community Outreach Program $ ______ Total:$__________
Make cheques payable to: Hamilton & District Ostomy Association
And mail to: Mrs. Karen Lindsay, Box 729, Waterford, ON, N0E 1Y0
Tax Receipts will be issued for all donations
“An affiliated Chapter of Ostomy Canada Society”
A Non-Profit Canadian Charitable Organization.
Registration Number: 118951417 RR0001
A United Way Agency