My stoma bag is my new fashion accessory.

Posted 9th Dec 2025

Lucy Smith Butler, from Rochdale in Greater Manchester, was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2017 - a condition which causes painful ulcers on the bowel, and can lead to bleeding and diarrhoea. She has put on a charity catwalk, featuring stylised stoma bag covers and models with colostomies, to help those with stomas feel celebrated and proud.

Link (BBC News)

Bowel Cancer Memory Loss. 

Posted 1st Dec 2025

A good number of bowel cancer patients are ostomates. In the largest study of its kind ever conducted, researchers have determined that almost half of all bowel cancer survivors suffer memory loss and have trouble multitasking and concentrating because of the disease. 

Although this article is some 10 years old now, it is published because it is still relevant today and is just an amazing fact. 

Link (ABC News Australia)

Woman with stoma left 'distraught' after being asked to lift dress at airport security twice.

Posted 30th Jul 2025

Belfast International Airport has been forced to apologise to a woman with a stoma who was asked to lift her dress not once but twice, as she went through security.

Link (ITV News)