Having an Ostomy in 2020

Let’s face it, 2020 was all around a weird year for everyone on planet earth. For most people that are alive today, COVID19 was the first pandemic that many of us have had to live through. Consequently, we have seen a lot of weird changes take place in our world due to the factors related to the pandemic. To start, we saw an unprecedented number of businesses closed down. As we all know, the government decided to shut down a lot of businesses when COVID numbers started to spike in order to prevent more widespread disease. There has been a lot of controversy about if this was a smart decision or not. Personally, the whole thing has gotten too divisive for me, and I think finding out real facts or truth from this whole situation is darn near impossible. Regardless, it is true that many of us had no way to go to stores in person, besides a few select businesses that were deemed as necessary to stay open.

Either way, I had a difficult time going out to different stores to buy ostomy supplies, since many of them were closed. In addition to this, I did not want to take any unnecessary risks since I was considered to be more at-risk due to my ostomy. The problem was that I needed a way to still get all the ostomy supplies I was used to even with the stores I normally go to being closed down. Ostomy supplies are more serious than many people realize, because once you find the stuff that works for you, you want to make sure that you stick with that brand or type of product. For me, I spent a long amount of time researching different ostomy products and trying to find the ones that work for me. Consequently, I have a very specific set of brands and products that I buy every time. I was worried that I would not be able to find these certain supplies during the pandemic, and I would have to settle for subpar ostomy supplies that would be bad for my stoma.

The workaround I found for this problem is that we live in a great technologically advanced society! Just about anything can be found online these days, and I mean anything. Under this umbrella is also the world of online medical supplies, including all the ostomy supplies, gear, and accessories I could ever dream about. Online shopping definitely became my way to go after COVID hit. I think this is the same for many people all over the world who suddenly found themselves at home with the inability to buy their normal consumer goods in person. I ended up finding a lot of different websites that I could buy ostomy supplies from. Even during a time like COVID, the customer service was still great and the customer service reps were extremely helpful when it came time to buy my products.

The best part of all this was that I never even had to leave the comfort of my home; more specifically, the comfort of my couch! Being able to buy my ostomy supplies online during the pandemic is a true blessing one can only afford in the 21st century. I feel bad for all those peasants still buying their ostomy supplies and accessories in a brick and mortar store.