My friend’s mama was
diagnosed with bowel cancer and had surgery last week. What they did was they
redirected the intestine so that the waste does not leave his body via the
normal exit but instead via his stomach into a bag. This bag will be with him
possibly for the rest of his life. All wind and stools will pass via the stoma
into the attached bag(he'll have no control over when & how often). He had
an ileostomy where the small bowel (small intestine) is diverted through an