Hello, my name is Viv and I am a fellow ostomate. My story is not the easiest to write about, events that don’t turn out exactly as you hoped or wanted don’t always make for cosy reading. I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis (UC) more than twenty years ago. I managed my condition reasonably well;

Ok yes this a long post but you might find it interesting. It is my very brief (believe it or not) story on who I am, my conditions, my ostomy bears and how I ended up here. I’ve got nothing to hide and happy to tell my story.  At 17.5yrs old in 1992, I was