At the age of 2.5 years old, I developed a rare form of vaginal cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. Doctors thought I would not live to celebrate my third birthday. Since the age of 3 years old, I have ...

Renee Welsh had a colostomy when she was 32 because of severe Crohn's disease. Now, she's built a TikTok following dedicated to representation. This is her story, as told to Kelly Burch. Since I was 9 ...

Sara Levitt is a model and content creator with over 43,000 followers on Instagram The 30-year-old is also a Crohn's disease and ostomy advocate For 15 years, she kept her ostomy bag hidden from the ...

After being diagnosed with colorectal cancer, my ostomy — which I named Toodles — opened up a world of body positivity for me. Before being diagnosed with colorectal cancer, I was experiencing ...

I remember the first time I went to the doctor for the intense stomachaches. It was March of 2010, and the crazy bloating in my upper abdominals had gotten so bad, I couldn't eat or drink anything.

When I first awoke from surgery to feel a strange material and a rustling coming from my stomach, I panicked. I was delirious, and I’d forgotten that I’d been taken down to the operating room to have ...

"I came to a realization: My ileostomy bag was going to weed out all the assholes from my life," Miller wrote in a recent Facebook post. "I don’t need toxic people in my life, and I knew those who ...

“We can’t keep taking sections out of your gut and suturing you back together. It’s time to discuss ostomy surgery,” my doctor said. I was 34. My reaction was ...

As far as minor ailments go, few things are more uncomfortable than a stomach bug and this is what Andrew Browne thought he had five years ago when he first experienced symptoms. But, before long, the ...

On Monday 26 January 2015 I was admitted to hospital for suspected appendicitis. A week later, my appendix out and two failed colonoscopies, I was rushed into theatre and operated on for four hours ...