Posts categorised under Raising Awareness

Anita is just getting over her fourth time with sepsis. In part two of her blog, she shares her frightening experience and what it’s like to have an infection as a urostomate.

Anita is just getting over her fourth time with sepsis. In this blog which is part one of two, she shares her frightening experience and what it’s like to have an infection as a urostomate.

Katie has a look back at some of the year’s standout voices in stoma awareness and discusses how attitudes around stomas are changing.

Nathan discusses the difference raising awareness of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis can make and how knowing more about IBD and stomas sooner would have changed his experience for the better.

Michelle has been diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and lives life with a stoma. Her brother also struggles with bowel problems, and in this blog, Michelle shares a little of his experience and what it’s like to live with an undiagnosed invisible illness.

After his stoma surgery, Nick struggled to find the stoma support and advice he was looking for. When he finally did, he soon began helping others, but later realised how advising others is not as simple as it seems.