Blog posts by Sam Melling

Sam talks about how the information overwhelmed her as a new ostomate. She discusses what worked and why she loves being a part of SecuriCare.

With Hidden Disabilities Week on her mind, Sam has been thinking over her relationship with her body and how it can often play games with her.

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’.