Wellness workshop for stoma patients

The stoma team at Poole Hospital recently held a Wellness Workshop for patients that have had abdominal surgery within the last two years and have stoma’s.

Around 50 patients came along and were able to try a variety of activities to improve their wellness.  Patients booked onto as many of the activities like yoga, creative art, mindfulness, mediation, and Pilates as they wanted and were also able to the team throughout the day about practical support and advice on things like nutrition.

Tracy Lees on of the stoma team said: “ We were thrilled with how our first Wellness Workshop has gone was a huge success and the feedback has been terrific and we wanted to share some of the quotes from our patients regarding what they most enjoyed on the day:

“Meeting new friends trying yoga for the first time” “Meeting people with similar problems” “Good friendly sound advice” “Only months from my op and found mixing a real confidence boost” “Support and Activities” “talking to the Fittleworth  lady” “learning new things” “making friends with others who understand."