Holding my chin up with my guts out
- Thursday, September 24, 2020
Sonja Nye recalls how she has kept a positive attitude through her journey from ulcerative colitis to a permanent stoma
Stoma Stories
Personal experiences of living with an ostomy, in ostomates’ own words
Be happy—I am
- Friday, April 24, 2020
Yvonne Haines tells how getting a permanent colostomy and learning to irrigate has transformed her life for the better
Breaking up, an analogy
- Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Luciana Podschun recalls the most difficult decision of her life
Pageantry with purpose: from stoma surgery to catwalk confidence
- Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Jessica Mary Logan describes her challenging journey to a J-pouch that led her to establish a pageant to inspire body confidence in people with invisible illnesses
Bags for life: a remarkable recovery
- Thursday, September 12, 2019
Laura MacKenzie recalls the frightening illness that led to a rapid and successful recovery and two healthy stomas
Not doubting Tomas: learning to laugh after challenging surgery
- Thursday, September 12, 2019
Clare Mee looks back on the complications, predicaments and valuable lessons she has shared with Tomas, her stoma
Loving Lola
- Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Alannah-Jayne Simpson talks about how she learned to live with, and eventually love, her stoma
Model mama
- Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Rachael Kin describes how she got back up after a bolt from the blue and proved she could still be a model and take care of her daughter
Tough stuff: fitness and fatherhood with a stoma
- Sunday, September 30, 2018
Alan Northey reveals how a barrage of bowel diseases couldn’t keep a new dad down
Hitting reset
- Sunday, September 30, 2018
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
Happy days here again: why I chose to go permanent
- Sunday, September 30, 2018
After her temporary ileostomy was reconnected, Sue Taylor describes why she has no regrets about going back to having a stoma
Reversal of fortune: how mum, blogs and my boyfriend brought me close to my stoma
- Saturday, March 31, 2018
Hattie Gladwell tells us how she came to terms with her temporary ostomy and why she now sort-of misses it
Rocking 2 stomas: how I became a double bagger
- Saturday, March 31, 2018
Rachel Jury tells the often difficult story of how she became the proud owner of Bob the ileostomy and Squirt the urostomy
Feeling ostomistic
- Saturday, March 31, 2018
Talya Goding recounts how writing and friendship have helped her live with terminal cancer and a particularly troublesome ileostomy