by Trudy Triumph | Oct 8, 2020 | Bowel, colectomy, Coping Strategies, Depression, Incontinence, Ostomy, Ulcerative colitis
My name is Keith Thomas; I am a 59-year-old bus driver from Swansea, in South Wales and I now live in Llanelli. Diagnosed in 2008 with Ulcerative Colitis, after many years of illness, my bowel finally gave up on me, in 2012, and I had to have a total colectomy. Prior...
by Trudy Triumph | Jan 18, 2019 | Chronic Pain, Depression, Guidelines, Kidney Health, Medication, Pain Management, Uncategorized, Underactive Bladder
JoAnne Lake aka Trudy Triumph It has been awhile and for that apologies. Let me share a note with you: Dear Trudy, How are you? First to wish you a happy year and that you keep being such a wonderful person as you are. Yesterday I just was thinking that I do not...
by Trudy Triumph | Jun 1, 2018 | Bladder Pain, Book, Books, Catheterization, Conversation about "it', Depression, Devices, Emotions, My story
Before I was diagnosed with an underactive bladder and along with the Biosleuth, Julia Parker, started this blog and and the book, “Beyond Embarrassment: Reclaiming your life with neurogenic bladder and bowel” life had become a “bit...
by Trudy Triumph | Mar 30, 2018 | Book, Books, Bowel, Catheterization, Constipation, Convenience Tips, Conversation about "it', Coping Strategies, Depression, Devices, Doctor Appointment, Doctors, Drugs, Emotions, Empathy, Fistula, Foley Catheter, Good Attitude, Health, Hemorrhoids, Holding Urine, Hospital Stay, Hysterectomy, Incontinence, Insurance, Intimacy, Kidney Health, Labia Discomfort, My story, Pelvic Pain, Sex, Travel, Uncategorized, Urine, Vaginal Trauma
by Trudy Triumph | Mar 1, 2018 | Book, Books, Catheterization, Conversation about "it', Coping Strategies, Depression, Emotions, Good Attitude, Health, Intimacy, My story, Sex, Uncategorized
Sometimes I get questions that make me feel emotional. This one did because I was invited to consider her very private confession, one that affects so many of us. I cried because she wondered about her “self worth”. The journey we travel is hard; I will...
by Trudy Triumph | Feb 3, 2018 | Bladder Pain, Book, Books, Bowel, Conversation about "it', Coping Strategies, Depression, Emotions, Fistula, Pelvic Pain, Vaginal Trauma
I want to take a break from writing about my neurogenic bladder and bowel issues in present-day U.S. (with all the comforts, cures, latest devices, assorted antibiotics, and medical treatments available to us). I would like to now put the spotlight on my sisters, in... 
