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.
1 A series of galleries tells the stories of daily life for African-Americans in Alabama and the nation, and how it differed dramatically from the lives white people of that era took for granted.  Just across the street is Birminghamâs most famous civil rights landmark, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.