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LeeAnne’s Healthy Eating and Fitness Tips for People With Ostomies

Colorectal Cancer, Colostomy, Digital Sponsor, Exercise/Sports, Ileostomy, Nutrition, Ostomy Basics, Ostomy Tips

Actress, model, businesswoman, and cancer survivor LeeAnne Hayden shares diet and fitness tips that can help you live your best life with an ostomy. Learn simple lifestyle changes you can make to improve your health and wellness. Living a…

My Life with an Ostomy- Josh

Colostomy, Digital Sponsor, Exercise/Sports, IBD, Ileostomy, Ostomy Tips, Patient Stories, Urostomy

Are you a new ostomate? Or a soon-to-be ostomate? No matter how far you are in your ostomy journey, adapting to your new situation is an inevitable part of the process. Talking to others who have already been in your shoes can help you in…

Justin’s Ostomy Story: Service and Happy Resilience

Colorectal Cancer, Colostomy, IBD, Ileostomy, Patient Stories, Personal

Finding Humor in life with an ostomy and IBD My name is LTC(R) Justin F. Blum and I had my initial ostomy surgery 29 years ago and my rectum removed six years later. These surgeries were done because of an ulcerative colitis diagnosis that…

Kya’s Story

Colostomy, Digital Sponsor, Exercise/Sports, Ileostomy, Patient Stories, Personal, Urostomy

There’s no bond more important than the one with your own body. ConvaTec helps you create a healthy bond with yourself, your stoma. And then, with the world around you. We want to show the world that people living with Ostomies have deep,…

Young mom with an ostomy bag living an active life after surgery

So You’re Getting an Ostomy

Colostomy, Exercise/Sports, IBD, Ileostomy, Ostomy Basics, Ostomy Tips, Urostomy

By Robin Glover Oh no! An ostomy! You’re going to be pooping or peeing into a bag attached to your stomach?? Your life is over, right? No more dating. No one will ever like you. Children will run from you! It’s so gross! Don’t worry.…

Certified Wound and Ostomy Nurse, Mary Anne Obst, on the Importance of Recognition and Treatment of Patients Diagnosed with Short Bowel Syndrome in a Level I Trauma Center

Ileostomy, Ostomy Nurse, Short Bowel Syndrome

I started my career as a surgical ICU and flight nurse providing care to the critically ill both on the ground and in the air. Flash forward 34 years, I now am the complex abdomen specialist at Regions Hospital, which is a Level I Trauma Center…

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Good News for Ostomates with Medicaid in Some States

Advocacy, Healthcare

By Jeanine Gleba, UOAA Advocacy Manager Too many people living with an ostomy have the worry that due to a need for frequent pouch changes or a high output stoma they will run out of their monthly Medicaid allowable ostomy supplies. For…

Micheal’s Urostomy Story

Patient Stories, Personal, Urostomy

Bladder Cancer at Age 40 and the Path to Recovery By Micheal Heath Waid I noticed the faint pink color in my urine in November of 2018. I wasn't sure what to make of it, but I mentioned it to my husband and he, being a nurse, suggested I…

Do I Have a Parastomal Hernia?

Colostomy, Ileostomy, Ostomy Basics, Ostomy Tips, Urostomy

By Robin Glover No need to be alarmed, but if you have an ostomy you already have a hernia! When the surgeon opened your abdominal muscles to pull your intestine through, they technically gave you a hernia. But we’re not talking about that…

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UOAA’S LATEST NEWS

LeeAnne’s Healthy Eating and Fitness Tips for People With Ostomies

My Life with an Ostomy- Josh

Justin’s Ostomy Story: Service and Happy Resilience

Kya’s Story

So You’re Getting an Ostomy

Certified Wound and Ostomy Nurse, Mary Anne Obst, on the Importance of Recognition and Treatment of Patients Diagnosed with Short Bowel Syndrome in a Level I Trauma Center

Good News for Ostomates with Medicaid in Some States

Micheal’s Urostomy Story

Do I Have a Parastomal Hernia?

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