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Rob Nunnery is a professional pickleball player with 19 titles, Crohn's disease, and a permanent ostomy, with a public platform covering chronic illness, invisible illness, ostomy life, recovery, and rebuilding after medical disruption.
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Rob Nunnery is a professional pickleball player with 19 titles, a Crohn's patient, permanent ostomate, founder of Flexara Health, and writer of The Short List.
He writes and makes videos about chronic illness, invisible illness, ostomy life, recovery, and rebuilding a life after your body changes the terms.
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Rob Nunnery is a professional pickleball player with 19 titles, a Crohn's patient, permanent ostomate, founder of Flexara Health, and writer of The Short List.
After years of perianal Crohn's disease, chronic pain, surgeries, and a permanent colostomy, Rob underwent a complete proctectomy in January 2026.
He documented the recovery publicly, bringing a large audience into honest conversations about ostomy life, chronic illness, invisible illness, body image, identity, pain, and rebuilding after medical disruption.
Rob is now rooted in South Africa, where he writes The Short List and builds Flexara Health from lived experience.
His work sits at the intersection of elite sport, chronic and invisible illness, recovery, adaptive performance, and product development built for bodies the existing options ignore.
Why The Story Travels...
The reach, the story, and the stats that define where Rob's platform stands today.
30M+
Medical Recovery, Publicly Documented
Views in the first 30 days of documenting my proctectomy recovery, ostomy life, chronic illness, body image, pain, and what it takes to look fine while life is anything but normal.
150,000+
A Community Built Around the Real Stuff
People across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and Substack following honest conversations about Crohn’s disease, ostomy life, recovery, stress, performance, and the cost of trying to do too much.
19 Professional Pickleball Titles
A pro athlete career that gives the story a different lens: competing with chronic illness, training with a permanent ostomy, and learning when pushing harder starts costing more than it gives.
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