Overcoming limitations in daily life. Limitations in daily life
were relevant to housework, diet, sleep, dressing, and physical
exercise. Informants endeavored to overcome these limitations
by means of doing light housework and not lifting heavy
things to prevent peristomal hernia; choosing light and
digestible food to improve regular defecation; averting spicy,
deep-fried, pickled, or grilled food to prevent cancer recurrence;
choosing less gas-producing food to evade embarrassment
of flatus; releasing gas from the pouch before sleep to
prevent it breaking; wearing larger clothes without a belt to