I'm Rob Nunnery.

I'm a professional pickleball player with 19 pro titles, a Crohn's patient, permanent ostomate, founder of Flexara Health, and writer of The Short List. ​

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I was diagnosed with perianal Crohn's disease in 2023 after years of pain and colorectal surgeries. I had a colostomy in February 2025 and a complete proctectomy in January 2026.

 

Two weeks later, an artery was severed during a routine procedure and I needed an emergency angiogram to stop the bleeding.

I documented all of it as it happened.

30 million views in the first 30 days.

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I competed through years of chronic pain, fistulas, abscesses, surgeries, and recovery.

I kept playing professional pickleball through much of it.

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Today I write and make videos about chronic and invisible illness, ostomy life, mental health, body image, identity, relationships, and rebuilding after major medical disruption.

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The medical story is easy to summarize. Four years of pain. Surgeries that didn't work. A permanent ostomy. A body that changed.

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A lot of what I write and talk about lives underneath that: the fear, what illness does to relationships, how it changes the way you see yourself, and what life looks like after the worst part is over.

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I have Crohn's and a permanent ostomy.

They affect almost every part of my life.

That's the part I will keep sharing for others.