Hey best of luck with your fundraising. I've upvoted the post. My husband will also be cutting off his locks soon for cancer. Its a great cause.
I'm also an ostomate, living with an ileostomy since I was 26. It took me a while to get used to but now my life is pretty good. I had UC. See you around team Aussie!
Good luck to him with his fundraising too, and hope you enjoy the smooth head and then the soft spiky regrowth :)
There's a few of us ostomates about. I've had mine since a little before I turned 18 and I always forget which terminology it really is (colostomy/ileostomy/other), but regardless of the term I use people seem to understand vaguely what it is at least, which is useful. Or they ask questions.