Tag: community
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An Interview With Lisa Kate Ostomate
Another day, another blog post! Yesterday was #ostomyawarenessday and you may have seen me posting about this lots on my social media. It was fantastic seeing so many ostomates sharing their stories, photos and information about their ostomies, why they have them and what it means to them. Lisa is someone I first started chatting…
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MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK 2020 – THE IMPORTANCE OF KINDNESS
Hi and welcome back to Mental Health Monday with me, The Spoonie Mummy. Today I thought it was only right to acknowledge the start of Mental Health Awareness Week which starts today in collaboration with the Mental Health Foundation. The theme of the week this year is KINDNESS. I thought that was a perfect topic…
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Top Ten Favourite IBD & Ostomy Support Groups
As this week is Mental Health Awareness Week and this Saturday marks World IBD Day I thought I would do a post combining the two. When diagnosed with a chronic illness like IBD, mental health problems often come hand in hand. Being told you have an illness that will never go away, spending lots of…
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Why Online Support Groups Can Be So Helpful
I joined my first IBD online support group in September 2015. I had been struggling for a while with my mental health and had just made the big step of opening up to my rheumatology nurse about how I was feeling. I had been diagnosed with Crohns Disease almost three years previously but still didn’t…
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Stoma Mail
When I had first had my operation one of the most amazing things was the support I received from people in the IBD and Ostomy communities. From the visit from wonderful Lauren from Purple Wings, to mailed gifts from far and wide to so many messages from people checking up on me – it all…
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