JINGLE - BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. SAM - What can't you do with a stoma? HANNAH - Poo out of your bum hole. I was changing my bag the other day and I'd had mushrooms for dinner and I was ...

A colostomy is an operation to create an opening (stoma) of the large bowel (colon) onto the surface of the tummy (abdomen). Your poo no longer passes out of your body through your back passage.

I know the question you’ll be asking: how do I poo if I don’t have a ‘normal’ bum? The answer is that there’s another secret hidden beneath my clothes. I have a stoma, which means a part ...