MY LATEST POST ON WWW.MYOSTOMY.CO.UK When I was pregnant with my second child, I knew that I had bowel cancer. You know your body, you know if something is wrong, and I knew. This feeling combined with textbook symptoms and a basic knowledge of bowel cancer due to a strong family history (my mother, grandmother [...]
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Starting University with an Ostomy
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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Sky News, Social Media, Selfies, Colostomy’s and People Who Don’t Want To Know
I was so excited when I got a phone call asking if I would be interviewed for Sky News. The chance to talk about Cancer and Colostomy's on actual real-life national news, yes please! The premiss behind the segment was looking at how social media gives people a chance to express what they are going through 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 [...]
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Nicola B and the Big C
Have you heard that I had cancer? Of course you have, I talk about it…. a lot!! Some people find this strange, a lot of people consider serious illness to be something that should be private and dealt with behind closed doors but that has never been how I felt. I have complete respect for [...]
