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The Mighty | Why We're Raising Awareness on World IBD Day

Posted by Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford on May 15, 2017

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Celebrating my achievements since stoma surgery!

I missed my stomaversary last month. For those not of the ostomy world, that basically means the anniversary of my stoma surgery. I have always been rubbish at remembering dates, so I only realised in the evening on October 17th because Facebook reminded me. I never celebrated a stomaversary with my last 2 either, so why change the habit of a lifetime?!
I’ve been busy with work and life, which in itself is a major improvement because 13 months ago I was just working and sleeping. Cooking had ceased, and I only showered when it was strictly necessary. I was flaring and exhausted, and I had lost my will to fight after many years of constant poor health.
This is the reason I thought it was worth writing a little celebratory post. I have had a great year, and it passed so quickly! To put this into perspective, I took a picture of my fridge magnet collection, from 2013 – 2019. I separated this last year to give a visual representation.

I often said it felt like someone had pressed pause …

It’s official – I’m a writer now!

NEENAW NEENAW, exciting news, coming through!
I am delighted to be able to tell you all that I am now a writer on inflammatoryboweldisease.net!
I am incredibly proud of myself, which is something I very rarely get to say! I love the site, and I believe that advocacy in the US is something that we can only aspire to achieve! So, for inflammatoryboweldisease.net to think that my writing is actually good enough to publish on their site, is A.MAAZING! My articles will appear here.
For a long time, I have dreamt of being able to make a career out of supporting people on their IBD and ostomy journey, and whilst I’m not quite there yet, consider by my IBD itch, well and truly scratched!
I have added a tab to my articles to this blog, so now I just need to publish one!
Look at me... I'm a writer :D

IBD awareness hashtags for World IBD Day 2019

Last year, I researched hashtags for World IBD Day that people could use on social media to help increase the reach of their posts.
Those are obviously out of date now, as new hashtags appear all of the time, and popularity changes, so I have done it again for this year!
Please note that these hashtags have been generated using, what I consider the most common IBD awareness hashtag to be, #IBDawareness. The hashtags below are the most commonly used and far-reaching hashtags associated with it.
Of course, I will always urge you to use #IBDSuperHeroes, as that's the tag I search for using the IBDSuperHeroes Instagram account, which I then re-gram from.
According to Hashtagify: According to RiteTag:
According to Keyhole: In conclusion
These are the 20 hashtags I will be using in my IBD awareness posts tomorrow on World IBD Day! I can then add another 10 based on the content of my post, and whether I am talking about specific symptoms or my stoma etc. You're very welcome to copy …

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