Having a stoma bag isn’t usually so bad as it’s been for Tracey Emin | Letters
Readers reflect on their experiences of urostomy after reading our interview with Tracey EminIn your interview with Tracey Emin about A Second Life, her forthcoming major exhibition at Tate Modern,...
By Guardian Staff · The Guardian Opinion
Readers reflect on their experiences of urostomy after reading our interview with Tracey Emin In your interview with Tracey Emin about A Second Life, her forthcoming major exhibition at Tate Modern, and other matters ( ‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform, 14 February ), she comments on the difficulties in her life now that she is living without a bladder. While data is patchy, about 100 people a week undergo this surgery in the UK, commonly known as a urostomy. For all those people waiting to have this surgery it is a traumatic time, and I think it’s important to point out that this often life-saving surgery usually has much a much better outcome than Tracey has had. Continue reading...