{"id":250150,"date":"2025-07-09T07:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250150\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T07:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:24:13","slug":"harrogate-rugby-league-players-stoma-bag-gives-him-second-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250150\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrogate rugby league player&#8217;s stoma bag gives him &#8216;second chance&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Christine Adams, his mother, said: &#8220;From him saying he was going have the stoma to where he&#8217;s got to now is absolutely brilliant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m so pleased for him, he&#8217;s doing so well.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Colostomy UK says about 200,000 people live with a stoma bag in the UK &#8211; around one in every 335 people. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You do have to be careful playing a contact collision sport with a stoma, but there are little things that our players do to just make sure that they can play safely,&#8221; said team manager Giovanni Cinque.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Some will wear a compression top, some will wear a support belt.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Adams uses social media to help others who are going through similar issues and wants to raise awareness of life with a stoma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been absolutely brilliant for people to come on and message me and ask me little questions about stuff that they might be worried about,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really excited to see where it goes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christine Adams, his mother, said: &#8220;From him saying he was going have the stoma to where he&#8217;s got&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-250150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114822084223869140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}