Tomorrow is my takedown surgery, I've had an ileostomy for 9 weeks now. And am happy to be done with it. I have had many problems with skin breakdown and I've had to change my bag every day for the last 7 weeks. Just to prevent further skin breakdown. I am able to look back at all the issues I've had with the ileostomy and laugh, which I guess is a good thing. I will always remember the night I was out for a bachelorette party. I was wearing a dress, and under the dress I had a pair of spanx (they have been a godsend to me). When I went to the restroom and pulled down my spanx, my bag detached from the wafer, spilling stool onto the bag and wafer. All I could do for a few seconds was stare in disbelief. Out of all the times for this to happen it had to happen now! Well I managed to get the bag back on, and cleaned up the stool as best I could. Luckily, I don't think it smelled. At around that time I realized that one of the ties from my dress was hanging down in the toilet and was completely soaked. At that point I just had to laugh.

Good luck on takedown...sounds like you are handling all of this really well...hopefully it is all going to be just a bad memory soon.
By the way...I always check the tail of my shirt, the belt and anything else that can trail into the bowl! Been there too often.
Sharon