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Its World IBD Day on Monday! Again!

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Funny - its a year since I started writing this blog! World IBD day has come round again and I thought it would be a good time to reflect on the last year .... A year ago I started writing the blog as an outlet for me to share my experiences of living with a stoma, and to help raise awareness of IBD. It has become a way for me to work through some of the issues that I have had to face as well as being a way into the wonderful online support network that exists for ostomates. Through writing the blog I have learnt to rationalise many of the day to day issues that come with having an ileostomy - it has been a way for me to express how I feel whether anger and frustration or nerves and uncertainty. I have become more confident and less self conscious about my Stoma and I have found away of sharing the ups and downs with my friends. After I published my first blog posts I had several friends respond sharing some of their own experiences with bowel conditions. I have discovered a wonderf