World IBD Day 2015.....raising awareness

This was my #ccuk story that I shared in 2014 for World IBD day. I shared it with my immediate colleagues at work as part of a cake sale that I held in our work room. This year, with whole buildings going purple and, alongside a colleague we upped the awareness raising stakes. We organised a college wide bake sale and invited staff and students to #gopurple!

As part of the promotion of our bake sale I sent an email out to all staff in the building with a link to some earlier blog posts. I hoped staff would read these and understand why World IBD Day is so important and why we need to raise awareness of both Crohn's and Colitis!

I know people followed the links and read the posts....I can monitor the traffic on my blog and it was great, if not slightly terrifying to know that potentially everyone I work in the same building as knew that I have a Stoma and an ostomy bag!

But that is how we are going to raise awareness , not by hiding but by putting ourselves and our stories out there! My ostomy does not stop me from doing my job, in fact I can work because I have it... I certainly wouldn't be able to have the attendance record that I do without my Stoma!

I just want to thank all my friends, family and colleagues for their support.... Several of them wore purple, lots of them bought cake and the £100 we raised will  help CCUK to continue their research and support! Another little step to raise awareness... Thank you!






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