These last few days have been sad days for me. Yesterday without thinking I opened up a letter my gran had written for my wedding. It was a beautiful wish for happiness and it means so much to me because my gran died the year after I got married. At the end of the letter…
Being Resilient
What it was like having my stoma reversal
My stoma was never meant to be permanent. It was something that needed to happen in order for me to live and hate it as I did, it saved my life. Now, it’s time for my reversal. I got my little friend “Francis” during an emergency procedure that saved my life after my colon was…
Dear Francis the Stoma, I won’t be sad to see you go!
In September, after a number of complications, I woke up as an Ostomate. If you don’t know what an Ostomate is, don’t worry, neither did I till I was one. (Catch up on that story here) Ostomate, noun The definition of an ostomate is a person who has undergone a surgical procedure to create an…