The good news is that the bags offer patients considerably more personal freedom. For example patients with inflammatory bowel disease typically need to visit the bathroom 20 to 30 times a day when the condition flares up, Dr. Remzi says. âThe bag gives them complete control of their life,â he says.
Columbia is the oldest continuously existing town in southeast Alabama, having been settled in 1820 when a small group of settlers crossed the Chattahoochee River from Georgia and established themselves along the south side of the Omussee Creek, a mile up stream from a small Yemassee Indian Village.
The first successful oil well in Alabama was drilled at Gilbertown in 1944, with oil and gas becoming the county's most important industry. This industry waned by the 1970s as the wells lost profitability.