Posts categorised under Raising Awareness

Nathan shares his experience of having a proctocolectomy a.k.a. a Barbie Butt. The highs and lows of making the decision to have surgery and his positive experience since then!

In our guest blog by Ben, he shares his journey from diagnosis of Crohn’s Disease to volunteering with his local Crohn’s & Colitis Network.

In this blog, Sarah shares the things that have kept her occupied during lockdown and how she used her time to raise awareness of things like IBD and stomas.

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.