Hi, I’m Chris — also known as The Stoma Accountant.
I started this blog to document a journey I never expected to take: seven years of living with ulcerative colitis, navigating medications, hospital visits, setbacks, and eventually having my colon removed and a stoma formed.
Alongside all of that, I’ve been retraining to become a qualified accountant — trying to build a future while learning how to live in a body that kept changing the rules.
This space isn’t about presenting a perfect version of recovery.
It’s about honesty.
It’s about what chronic illness actually looks like behind closed doors — the uncertainty, the routines, the small wins, and the moments that don’t make it into medical leaflets.
Living with a stoma wasn’t the life I planned, but it’s the one that gave me my life back.
Here, I share what that really means.
From managing day-to-day life, to the mental side of illness and recovery, to navigating work, study, and identity — nothing is off limits. Not to shock, but to make things clearer for anyone going through something similar.
If you’re living with bowel disease, facing surgery, or trying to find your footing again after it all changes, you’re not alone.
And if you’re here to understand, support someone, or simply learn — you’re just as welcome.
If this blog helps even one person feel less isolated, more informed, or more hopeful about what’s ahead, then it’s doing exactly what it was meant to do.
This is still a work in progress.
And so am I.
