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.
Two years later it was known as West Columbia, and finally was renamed East Columbia. When Houston became the capital of Texas, East Columbia prospered. It received another boost with the arrival of the Houston Tap and Brazoria Railroad in 1859. The onset of the Civil War stopped East Columbia's prosperity. The town had a population of 800 in the mid 1880s and a few years later it hit 1,500. Another period of decline set in and by 1914 it was down to 150. The local post office once known as Columbia, was renamed East Columbia in 1927.