This S’pore man’s digestive system ends in a bag but he’s not letting that stop him from living life

A cheeky grin appears on 21-year-old Ui Wun Juan’s face as he dribbles past his friend, feinting left before moving to the right to take a shot. It’s just another Saturday for the full-time National Serviceman (NSF), whom friends call Juan. If you didn’t know more about him, however, you’d probably think that he was just any other 21-year-old. But Ui has lived, and is living, a rather different life from his peers, having been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease when he was just 13. He is also currently living with a stoma bag. In the months before his diagnosis, Ui experienced bloody diarrhoea, frequent vomiting, and weight loss of up to 5kg — all symptoms of the disease, which causes inflammation in the intestines. “I was still very young back then, and I didn’t really understand what is the illness about. So I actually felt very sad and depressed. And I asked myself why I have a disease. And why am I not normal like others?” With medication, however, Ui was gradually able to get back to life as per normal. Life-saving operation In 2014, however, things took a turn for the worse, when Ui was coming to the end… Read full this story

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