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 house and grounds are now operated by the Alabama Historical Commission as a historic house museum. For touring information, visit PreserveALA.org/Gaineswood. This antebellum mansion is located at 805 South Cedar Avenue at Demopolis, AL (GPS Coordinates 32.508611,-87.835056). Sources: 1) PreserveALA.org/Gaineswood, 2) The Demopolis Area Chamber of Commerce. B&W photographs courtesy U. S. Library of Congress (HABS) â pictures taken 1934-1936.