My 91-year-old mum had her operation 50 years ago reversed 48 years ago. It was frightening times with little or no information or support. If mum was concerned, I ran to the phone box down the road and phoned the GP surgery and spoke to the GP and relayed it back to mum. Mum is

‘My inflammatory bowel disease – colitis journey has been a fast one to say the least. I was officially diagnosed with ulcerative colitis (ulceration/inflammation of the colon) in my case proctitis which is intensified ulceration and inflammation in the rectum. This was December 2018 after a hospital stay which got me diagnosed and on a

I wanted to let people know how I became involved with Stoma Hero’s so here is my journey so far. I had over several months been finding blood on the tissue after doing a poo, I just put it down to piles, having had kids and having a skin disorder, lichen sclerosis, it didn’t really

Life has changed drastically for me. Some of you will know what I have been through and some of you won’t so I thought I would share this as there is a moral to what you are about to read. My story starts on Friday 21st September 2019. A typical Friday afternoon, minding my own

I think my friends & family always thought my lifestyle would eventually kill me but in the end a simple birth defect got me. About two & a half years ago, I came home from work, like any other day. I cooked my wife & I some tea & settled down for the evening to