What started as a private health battle became a public journey of self-love and resilience, all while learning to rock an ostomy bag.

The former Made in Chelsea star, 30, who nearly died when giving birth to her son in 2021, revealed last April that she had been fitted with a stoma after years of battling ulcerative colitis.

The stoma, a small hole in her abdomen, removes the waste from her body into the fitted bag, which Lucy has to regularly empty. Over the past few days, she has been sharing her festival prep with her ...

The 26-year-old had surgery to get the stoma bag fitted when she was 19, two years after being diagnosed with a bowel disease called ulcerative colitis, a long-term condition which causes ...

A man was hospitalized after more than three feet of his small intestine broke through a two-inch hole in his abdomen where ...

“Spontaneous evisceration of a parastomal hernia with associated small-bowel strangulation is an exceptionally rare but serious late complication of stoma formation,” the authors of the report ...

A stoma is an opening made through the abdomen which connects the bowel to the surface. A stoma bag creates a seal around that hole, to catch stools and prevent skin irritation.

My son, 12, was minutes from death from terrifying trend that burns holes in kids’ bowels, leaving them with stoma bags NHS doctors are warning parents of the “horror injuries” which can ...

Shawn Michael was diagnosed with stage four colorectal cancer after thinking his symptoms of abdominal pain and constipation were normal.

In scenes to be aired next week, Bethany Platt - played by Lucy Fallon - will be left devastated after her stoma bag leaks in front of a crowd in the Rovers ...

But after her bowel became perforated through disease, her doctor said she’d need to have the entire organ removed. Now she has a permanent stoma and ostomy bag, and despite some initial fears says ...

An ileostomy is a type of surgery that alters the way stool (poop) leaves the body. Learn why ileostomies are performed and what to expect before, during, and after surgery.