Great Comebacks Announces the 2010 Regional Awards...

Great Comebacks, sponsored by ostomy supplier Convatec, announced their regional award recipients in mid-October.

If you don’t know already, Great Comebacks is a recognition for the achievements of individuals overcoming serious intestinal diseases, cancer, and other health conditions leading to ostomy surgery. The chairman of Great Comebacks is former San Diego place-kicker and Ulcerative Colitis patient Rolf Benirschke.

Great comebacks also participates and partners with many related groups including the United Ostomy Associations of America, Crohns & Colitis Foundation (CCFA), Intestinal Disease Education and Awareness Society (IDEAS) and several others.

Here are links to the regional winners, for each of their biographies on the Great Comebacks site:

• South: David Barger
• Central: Yvonne Austin
• East: Linda Pasto
• West: Charles (Chuck) Wielgus

This recognition, announced in October 2010, will also honor these four folks on June 4th, 2011 as one is chosen for the National Award at the 43rd WOCN (Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurses) Annual Conference in New Orleans.

Let’s hope their stories may help serve as awareness, inspiration and encouragement for those who are facing Ostomy surgery!

ConvaTec is an ostomy supplier providing numerous lines of pouches, wafers, and appliances to improve the quality of life of ostomy patients. See the Ostomy Guide ConvaTec Product Catalog for a list of products and associated codes, including the popular Convatec Stomahesive paste.

Bowel Disease? Schmowel Disease. - No Guts ...

A follow up from an earlier post about the No Guts Know Glory Mt. Everest Climb - a tired but successful group of Ostomate climbers have just reached the summit of Everest! Check out the video:

The amount of athleticism, strength and endurance needed to climb this enormous mountain is an incredible feat for any human being. Congrats to the whole team for their amazing achievements and the message it stands for - ostomy saves lives and does not hold one back from achieving their full potential!

No Guts Know Glory - Seven Summits Campaign ...

***UPDATE 5/28*** - See our Latest Post about the No Guts Know Glory Mt. Everest Climb!

Just wanted to bring attention to the No Guts Know Glory campaign to climb Mount Everest this year.

No Guts Know Glory is an awareness program for the non-profit group IDEAS, an educational and awareness society bringing light to Ostomy and intestinal diseases to inform the public and let those with an ostomy or IBD know they’re not alone.

Seven Summits is a campaign to raise money for IDEAS climbing the world’s tallest mountain peaks on each of the continents. Very few have accomplished this, let alone someone with an ostomy who has suffered through Crohn’s and IBD. Rob, the founder of IDEAS and native to Vancouver, intends to climb them all, and the IBD Adventures Team is finishing off all seven peaks with the final trip to the top of Mount Everest underway right now from March 29th - April 19th.

Find out more about this inspiring story and follow the events on the No Guts Know Glory homepage.