Friday, 31 July 2020 / Published in Blog, News

Visit to Glastonbury Tor

As part of our drive to show others that having a stoma isn’t the end of the world, I recently visited the Glastonbury Tor, I was taking part in a filming about the place I grew up. It is a great place visit and the views on a really clear day makes it worth while,
Monday, 22 June 2020 / Published in Blog, News

sex and living with a stoma

Hannah has written a fantastic document about some tips that she has discovered whilst living her life as an ostomate and dealing with the subject of sex and having an ostomy. Its a subject that doesn’t get spoken about to much, Hannah has wanted to write this for a while and has given an insight
Monday, 15 June 2020 / Published in Blog, News

A Hospital Checklist

Prior to going into hospital you might be feeling a little apprehensive and nervous, you have so many things going on in your mind that getting stuff ready for your stay becomes blurred as to what you might need. We have drawn up a checklist to help you out with this to try and take
Saturday, 13 June 2020 / Published in Blog, News

fellas showcasing life with a stoma

Recently a story of the young man in Barnsley who opted to end his life has been reported on in a the media, sadly he didnt want to live a life with a stoma. This has caused quite a debate throughout the ostomy world from many places and not just here in the UK. At
Friday, 12 June 2020 / Published in Blog, Patient Stories

The Anxiety from a Sisters Point of View

TThe fear of the unknown and anxieties, When I found out my sister was going to have stoma surgery, not knowing anyone who had ever had this, I had no idea what she meant. I have heard to people needing to have a colostomy bag but have never heard of a stoma. a sister perspecitive
Friday, 12 June 2020 / Published in Blog, Patient Stories

vickys story

A day I won’t forget in a hurry! Vicky’s story about her stoma life journey so far and the 10 pm email. 10 pm email
Thursday, 11 June 2020 / Published in Blog

show case a positive life living with a stoma

Due to the recent story about a fella #msp who made the sad decision not to want to live with a stoma, this has had a massive impact within the ostomy community, there are and have been plenty of discussions throughout the ostomy world and social media platforms about this subject, with this in mind
Saturday, 30 May 2020 / Published in Blog, diet & nutrition

10 of the best hydration foods

As hydration is an ostomates nemesis in warmer weather we have constructed a couple of print able leaflets on hydration and dehydration, on these they will have some information on rehydration drink mix and the best hydration foods to help you keep well hydrated . please feel free to print out. leaflet hydration and dehydration
Thursday, 21 May 2020 / Published in News

stoma explained

we have created some slides to give you a brief looking into the reason and disease symptoms for ostomy patients   Stomas-explained
Monday, 20 April 2020 / Published in diet & nutrition, News

Life after your bowel surgery – reintroduction Food

Food choices after your bowel surgery Small bowel: – it will continue to work and absorb and digest all the good things it needs after the formation of the ileostomy Large bowel: – after the formation of the ileostomy the large bowel will absorb less salt and water and your output could be loose at