Cancer Survivor Creates Colostomy Bag Dress
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A bowel cancer survivor who felt humiliated by her colostomy bag has used hundreds of the medical pouches to make a WEDDING DRESS in a bid to end the taboos surrounding them.
Support worker Angela Elders, 56, from Bolton-le-Sands, Lancs, was told she was imagining things and too young for cancer when she suspected she might have the same disease as her mother five years ago.
But after two years of stomach pains and unexplained bowel movement changes, the married mum-of-two was diagnosed with stage three cancer in 2014 and was fitted with a colostomy bag for a year - leaving her so embarrassed, some days she struggled to leave the house.
The grandmother-of-one is now in remission and has had her stoma reversed, but was left determined to break the stigma around the illness – so set about designing a dress by pulling apart and sewing together various sizes of the bags.
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