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Martin Medland colitis and pouch

  Hi Everyone, I hope that you may be able to relate with my experiences and get an understanding of living with a pouch. My names Martin Medland. I’m sixty years young! I’ve had a pouch for twenty seven years. I was diagnosed with Colitis at the age of eighteen. I was working abroad at

getting back together

Its been a while, but some of the stoma heroes local support group members met up for the first time since February. After consulting the Crispin community centre in street and following their guidelines we held a meeting, it was great for the ostomates to be able to get together and talk about their lock

amazon donations

Please click on the below link if you purchase items from Amazon. The link will take you to Amazon Smile where, if you make purchases, you will have an option to nominate a charity of your choice, ie; StomaHeroes, and Amazon will donate a small percentage of your purchase value to your chosen charity. This

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,
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