Had a difficult moment yesterday. Spent the weekend with relatives, and we all went for lunch at a club in a rural touristy town. As most regular PoopReporters know, I am now an ostomate, as a result of surgery to remove bowel cancer. (An ostomate is someone who has had a colostomy or urostomy, and now wears "a bag").
This is no big deal to me. When it's time to do a change-out -- which is my way of taking a dump -- I simply go to a stall, swap out the bag, seal the used bag, put it into a plastic nappy-sack, tie off the plastic nappy-sack, and dispose of it in the waste-bin. Seeing as how bathroom waste has to be either buried or burned (not recycled), there is no threat of contamination down the line.
All good so far?
Yesterday, I went to the crapper at the club for a change-out, and when I was finished, I was a bit shocked to find there was no waste-bin in the stall. I was even more shocked to find there was no waste-bin AT ALL, anywhere in the whole restroom area.
What were my options? I couldn't flush it away because the bag's not water soluble and could easily clog the pipes. So I went out into the gaming area and looked for a male attendant. Not one to be seen. All females. Too embarrassing.
I looked for a waste-bin outside, in the fresh air. Nothing. All I could find was a bin for used Keno tickets, and I wasn't about to drop a stinky colostomy bag in that. (Even though the bag is sealed and tied up in a nappy-sack, they can still stink a bit.)
So I opted to leave the bag, tied up in the nappy-sack, on top of the cistern. I figured that a) its clean, b) sooner or later, someone will tell management about it, and c) maybe management will realize that there should be a waste-bin in the restroom.
I feel a bit guilty about doing this, but it caught me off guard. What do you think?
