Katie Smith

  • How I Learned To Love Myself While Living With A Stoma

    How I Learned To Love Myself While Living With A Stoma

    Being an 18-year-old girl and hearing “you need emergency surgery to give you an ileostomy bag” was really difficult. That sentence has and will stay in my head permanently. But I didn’t really have a choice, it was either have the stoma or don’t make it through the night. The first thing I thought was…