Stoma Stories

Hitting reset

Luciana Podschun recounts how her colostomy has freed her from fearful risk, brought her closer to her family and hasn’t stopped them from travelling together

Tough stuff: fitness and fatherhood with a stoma

Alan Northey reveals how a barrage of bowel diseases couldn’t keep a new dad down

Happy days here again: why I chose to go permanent

After her temporary ileostomy was reconnected, Sue Taylor describes why she has no regrets about going back to having a stoma

Rocking 2 stomas: how I became a double bagger

Rachel Jury tells the often difficult story of how she became the proud owner of Bob the ileostomy and Squirt the urostomy

Feeling ostomistic

Talya Goding recounts how writing and friendship have helped her live with terminal cancer and a particularly troublesome ileostomy

Reversal of fortune: how mum, blogs and my boyfriend brought me close to my stoma

Hattie Gladwell tells us how she came to terms with her temporary ostomy and why she now sort-of misses it