Blog posts by Sam Melling

Sam doesn’t let her stoma hold her back from a good holiday and wants to share her advice and experience to help other ostomates with their travels.

Sam has a lot of good people in her life, the ones she can appreciate in person and the ones online who may not even know how much they’ve helped her. In this blog she shares her favourite quote about friendship and explains how grateful she is for the ostomy community online.

Sam’s dad has always liked to fix things – but he couldn’t fix her subtotal colectomy. In this blog, Sam considers all the ways he’s given her support instead…

Life after stoma surgery can be difficult, but what’s it like when you’re still living with the symptoms of IBD? Sam shares her struggles with mental health and letting people know she’s not ‘absolutely fine’.

With the promise of spring, Sam reflects on her stoma surgery and how her experience has affected not only her physical boundaries but how she approaches her plate.

Sam is finally in a good place, personally and romantically. Here she shares her experience of how she first learnt to love herself before unexpectedly finding her ‘end game’.