In this powerful and emotional episode, I speak with 28-year-old Lucy from Dursley, who bravely shares her personal journey from living a perfectly healthy life to facing sudden bladder retention in 2019. What followed was a life-altering path of self-catheterisation, infections, and eventually the decision to have a urostomy created in August 2023.

Lucy opens up about how her suprapubic catheter impacted her daily life and mental wellbeing, and how choosing to have urostomy surgery gave her back her confidence, energy, and zest for life. She reminds us that stoma surgery isn’t just for cancer patients — many people, like her, live with chronic conditions such as interstitial cystitis, fibromyalgia, polycystic ovaries, and endometriosis, which can lead to needing a stoma.

This episode is raw, real, and incredibly empowering. Lucy is now thriving, proving that life with a stoma can be full, joyful, and limitless. 

Guest: Lucy Pugh

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