{"id":5395,"date":"2025-09-24T15:12:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eakinostomy.com\/GB\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2025-09-24T15:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:12:52","slug":"finding-my-tribe-during-chemo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eakinostomy.com\/GB\/blog\/finding-my-tribe-during-chemo\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding my tribe during chemo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Finding my tribe during chemo<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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Support is really important during your journey with both cancer and through chemotherapy. I\u2019ve been incredibly lucky with my friends and family who have supported me throughout everything, but I\u2019ve also been open with them in sharing I have a stoma which has helped. Especially my husband, his acceptance of my stoma has helped me adjust to my new life much more easily \u2013 it\u2019s just a part of me now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will need a support network you can trust \u2013 your tribe \u2013 who will look out for you and who you can trust. From your stoma care nurse through to your friends and family and even those at your home delivery service you can just pick up the phone too and check on something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The little gestures will mean so much to you. One friend was so thoughtful in bringing me warm soup as she knew I wasn\u2019t managing to eat cold foods. Another showed up at my door with milk as I\u2019d joked on social media I had run out. It was the little things that meant the world to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am also so grateful and lucky that I have a close friend who has had a stoma for 18 years and I was able to ask her lots of questions or just check were things ok. It\u2019s listening to others who have had that lived experience that is so valuable. Finding a community of others with a stoma \u2013 as you will find a lot of trial and error till you work out what is right for you from diet through to your product choice.<\/p>\n\n\n

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