@piki my husband just got a colostomy. I am the one draining it as he has tremors and can’t do it himself. We’ve gotten into a routine of checking it morning, noon, and night, and I’ve found ways to clean the bag with a spritz of warm water (Dr approved this) to loosen stool sticking to the bag. In my husband’s case, he has advanced colorectal cancer, and I look at the colostomy as extending his life and giving him greater quality of life. Before the colostomy, he was running to the bathroom several times an hour and had explosive watery diarrhea along with mucous and blood caused by tumor and obstruction. He still has the tumor/mucous/blood but no more explosive diarrhea.