I had no time to sit at home getting used to having a colostomy. I started chemotherapy six weeks after surgery, so I was in and out of hospital almost straight away. I thought I was used to being out of the house. I hadn’t quite considered that a hospital is somewhere notorious for being [...]
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Just Keep Swimming – Swimming with a Colostomy
The thought of swimming seems to be something that a lot of ostomates struggle with and, of course, I understand why. It was something I was very worried about but it just sort of happened. A friend asked me to join her on a trip to an amazing spa close to where we live to [...]
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Is The Sun Setting on Hiding Your Colostomy?
As I said in my Nicola B and the Two Big C's blog post, I have never hidden the fact I have a colostomy, traditionally I have never made a massive point of it either. This has changed slightly in the last few months. Talking about it more openly through the fabulous Cancer Research UK and [...]
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Nicola B and the TWO Big C’s
Obviously the first one is Cancer. But I have another big C, in a lot of ways it is a bigger C, certainly to me, so big that I often don't really speak about it. The other big C is my Colostomy. For those who don't know, a Colostomy is when you have part of [...]
