Posts categorised under Raising Awareness

Jay Hyrons shares her experience of filming a Hernia Prevention video with the CliniMed team

Jay Hyrons shares her experience of tabbing in The Falklands with a stoma, in honour of her late husband and in support of military charities

In this blog, Jen shares her experience of contracting sepsis following a colectomy. She talks about the missed symptoms and misdiagnosis that almost caused her to lose her life.

In this blog post, Stephie shares some of the hurtful phrases ostomates have heard from those ignorant to invisible illnesses and questions. Is it ok to not be ok?

Not all stomas are to do with poop. Rachel Jury is here to raise awareness and bring urostomies to the forefront of the stoma family too.

Stephie is an advocate for ostomate awareness. In this blog post, she explains how sharing your stoma story can help both yourself and others.