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The reality of bad days

08 March, 2019

I was really pleased when Alannah, who is a member of our closed Facebook group, agreed to talk to me about ‘bad days’ and share some of the strategies she uses to cope with them…

Inspirational women helping people with a stoma

08 March, 2019

On International Women’s Day our initial thoughts were to put something together that spoke about all the inspirational women who have had such a positive impact on Colostomy UK and its predecessors over the last fifty plus years.

Pancaking Day

04 March, 2019

It’s Pancake Tuesday and so I thought I’d take a minute to talk about the OTHER kind of pancaking. Pancaking is when output is collected around the stoma instead of going into the bag. This is quite a common issue for ostomates and so I wanted to ask YOU for your tips, hints and tricks on dealing with this problem…

Swim with a stoma: free liverpool sessions

26 February, 2019

Colostomy UK are pleased to announce that our first Active Ostomates swimming session of 2019 will take place at Sport Liverpool on Wednesday April 10th from 3pm to 5pm.

Behind the scenes at a stoma care department

25 February, 2019

Have you ever wondered what life is like in a busy stoma care department? Well towards the end of last year I took the opportunity to find out and interviewed Judy Pullen who is the clinical nurse specialist in charge at the Great Western Hospitals NHS trust in Swindon…

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