it must be incredibly difficult to adapt to functioning with a bag and having to empty it so often including during the night is just not acceptable or doable especially when your precious sleep is shot to pieces..I really hope that the stoma care nurse can come up with some decent advice tomorrow..She should do-it's her job to make sure her patients aren't put in impossible situations like this! As for "coping"...I think you are in a really challenging situation and have been left in the lurch following major surgery. You are coping with too much completely on your own. I sincerely hope that after tomorrow things will improve at least in the practical sense xxx