Yvonne’s Stoma Journey

Yvonne Holley is a Mum to two young children and was diagnosed with Crohn’s at the age of 12. She spent much of her childhood poorly, missing lots of school and then at the age of 20 had a colostomy formed, along with proctectomy surgery. Yvonne also lives with arthritis and epilepsy.

Before her bag, Yvonne was going to the toilet up to 10 times a day, it didn’t matter what time of the day it was, she would sit on the toilet for hours. The toilet soon became her comfort zone she was in so much pain and totally exhausted. When she had her stoma, she tells us “I loved it to pieces, I could live my life again”.

Yvonne loves to travel, socialise and her family is her everything!

Yvonne and Confidence BE^®

“After eight years I found a bag that worked for me – Confidence BE^® – and I don’t know where I would be without it. When I first saw them, I thought they looked so pretty. The material was beautiful quality, and the colours were like nothing I’d ever seen.”

“I almost totally forget my bag is there, I just know it won’t leak or come off. If you don’t have the right bag, it will always wake you in the night. I thought I had to live with leaks for the rest of my life, but since changing to Confidence BE^® I can’t even remember the last time my bag woke me up.”