Chronic Illness

As the anniversary of Jen’s Crohn’s disease diagnosis approaches, she thinks back over her journey and the things she wishes she’d known sooner.

Rakhee is feeling better than ever since becoming an ostomate but without the intensity of fighting to stay alive, she now struggles with motivation. To counteract this she asks herself “Is this what I fought to stay alive for?”

In the fifth instalment of her blog series, Rachael describes her stoma surgery, including being marked up for her stoma and going under anaesthetic

In her fourth instalment of Cinderella With a Stoma, Rachael discusses her unusual experience in A&E before her stoma surgery

In Rachael’s 3rd instalment of ‘Cinderella With A Stoma’, she discusses how she was unknowingly living with Ulcerative Colitis and what happened in the build-up to her emergency hospital admission

Ileostomate, Jennifer, interviews her dad about what it’s like having a daughter with a chronic health condition. Read a dad’s perspective on diagnosis, surgery and more…