Hear from Wendy, one of our wonderful One2One Support Volunteers. Wendy has lived with an internal pouch for 30 years, following her diagnosis of ulcerative colitis. Initially, she was given the option of an ileostomy or an internal pouch, and she chose to have a J-pouch. However, her diagnosis later changed to angiodysplasia, which meant the J-pouch didn’t work for her. Wendy then underwent surgery to reconstruct the J-pouch into a Kock pouch, and she has successfully lived with this for the pa