Word: stoma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used to be shy even with doctors because, when he went to have the opening (medical name: stoma) treated, doctors appeared more interested in the stoma than in Tom. Once when a doctor left him for a moment to call in colleagues, Tom disappeared from the examining table. After that he would let doctors listen to his chest and look down his throat, but he would not let them look at his stoma nor peer through it at his stomach...
Reluctant Guinea Pig. Some of Tom's stomach lining protruded in a rosette around the stoma. To absorb this membrane's secretions and the occasional leakage from inside, Tom wore a gauze bandage between meals. Sometimes the bandage irritated the rosette and it bled a little. When Tom worked as a sewer laborer during the depression, the bleeding got so bad that he had to let a surgeon remove some of the bleeding tissue. The convalescence was long and Tom had to go on relief. This hurt his pride-he had always managed to support his family...
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