Hey there Everyone, it's Stevie here. Charlotte has been doing all the talking for coming up to four years soon, and you know what, I felt like it was time I got to have a say too, I've kept quiet for long enough now! As you know, I'm Stevie, Stevie the Stoma, and I was…
Today as I stood having a bagless shower I looked down at my stomach.. my brown stomach with a white circle on the right hand side between my bellybutton and hip bone. In the middle of this white circle is a red little rose..my little stoma.. I have only had my stoma for three and…
Have you ever fallen asleep on your side and then woken up several hours later and your hips ache? I have that, and I've not been on my hips. They ache, they hurt, they drain me.For years and years I have suffered from lower back and hip pains. This goes back way before I was…
Today when I was brushing my hair, I started to reflect on the journey it has had. All throughout my childhood and early teens my hair was long and healthy. As a child and young teenager my hair went down below my bum, and my ponytail and plait was as thick as a half kilo…
I don't know if I can share this video on social media so click onto my blog and watch it! I got this idea a while back for this special day, and me being silly decided it would be fun, also, me being as last minute as I can be, did't really give myself as…
I did a thing and I am so so proud of myself!!! Eeeee!!! Yesterday I held a talk at Lincoln University!! A while back an old school friend sent me a lovely message asking if I would be interested in coming and holding a talk for her nursing associate students, where I could share my…
2 years later I'm visiting the hospital again. Luckily today was "only" for some iron as my iron levels were freakishly low, and I am so happy that there is an actually reason behind my tiredness and the feeling like shit. Walking into the ward to get my iron I saw one of my lovely…
6 years ago I read Life of Pi and fell a bit in love with this text, so I wrote it on a piece of paper and stuck it on the door to my studio so I could read it every day (as well as everyone who entered the house as my studio was right…
Day for root canal, or root cleaning, and no one can understand how I feel when I go to the dentist unless they have been with me and can see. I get so tired of people saying "but the dentist is nothing compared to what you've been through". My cousin came with me to get…
Hey all, it's been a while since I wrote, life's been flying by. I'll write another post soon but today I wanna talk a bit about something that is rather important really, and I'll tell you about my experience of it. Smear tests. Today I have been so nervous! Back in January I went for…
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