I remember attending my first counseling session after my stoma surgery and being told they couldn’t provide the right form of counseling via the NHS because I needed a form of grief counseling.
I never considered I was experiencing a form of grief. I had always linked that to losing a loved one, but if you really think about it, it makes perfect sense.
At the time I had lost the health I once had and parts of my body I thought we had to live with (my colon had been removed due to acute severe ulcerative colitis).
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