I sat down in my meeting and thought to myself, man, do I smell?  I had emptied my bag fairly recently but knew it was starting to fill again – coffee and an apple, peach, spinach smoothie will do that to you I guess.  When I got to my car a couple hours later I looked at my bag, wow was it full!  Drove home and emptied, thinking “whew, that was a close one!”, and went on with my day.

I don’t like the bags with the filters so sometimes I have to “burp” my two-piece by opening it at the top where the bag connects.  Today I had noticed that there was a little poop on the plastic part when I went to burp it a couple times but it wasn’t until hours later that I realized it wasn’t just at the top, but almost all the way around.  Of course, I was at the gym by then, getting ready to go to a step class so I tried to wipe it clean with toilet paper (it was mostly dried at that point), and then noticed there was just a little bit of poop on the bandaid part of the wafer.  Oh well, people smell at the gym anyway right? I went to class, came home, got some wipes and tried to clean it off the wafer.

What I think happened was, the bag got super full and started to push itself apart from the wafer (better that than pushing the wafer away from my skin). When I’m at home it’s easy to check my bag to see how full it is but I’m still adjusting to figuring this out in public.

Moral of the story, listen to your gut (the figurative one that still exists!), sometimes it tells you you should go to the bathroom and it’s probably right!