The SecuriCare Blog

Steve reflects on life with a hidden illness and shares why being open about his stoma was the right choice for him.

In this month’s blog celebrating inspirational nurses for International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, Jo Jackson, one of our Community Stoma Care Nurses tells us how she discovered her career in nursing and who inspired her the most.

Stephie has multiple hidden illnesses and lives with an ileostomy. In this blog, she shares a letter she has written to her younger self full of advice and a little hope for the future.

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

In this blog, Nick shares his experience with diet during his illness and hospital stays. Now he has a stoma, he no longer eats blandly and has even discovered a talent and enjoyment for cooking.

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.