I am an avid reader, I have always had a massive love for reading from a very early age and will read pretty much anything. I love modern fiction, horror, comedy, biographies, non fiction… I am not bookist! And so I thought I would do a post about some books I am hoping Santa will […]
When I started this blog last year, I did so because I couldn’t find anything that I wanted to read, which was a personal account of real people with IBD, I wanted to know I wasn’t alone, to feel supported and learn more about the illness, recovery and life with Ulcerative Colitis or Crohns. I […]
My name is Sam Cleasby and I am a procrastinator. Don’t judge me, because I bet you do it to. I run a photography company The Picture Foundry with my husband, I work with arts group Responsible Fishing, run this blog and I’m in the process of setting up a new business (launching December 2014… […]
I did a talk at the Crohns and Colitis UK South Yorkshire Autumn lecture, I joined Mr Brown, consultant and surgeon at Sheffield Hallamshire and Northern General hospitals and we gave a patient/surgeon take on Ulcerative Colitis, surgery and treatment. I had a brilliant time, the talk was filmed and I will share that with […]
Dear Sam, This is a little awkward but here we go, this is a love letter to you because you need to hear this. Society tells us that it is immodest to love yourself and the marketing people of the world don’t want you to love yourself but after a really shitty year, let’s just […]
I ‘met’ a man called Darrell on a Facebook group for people with a jpouch. Social media is brilliant for this, for the ability to speak to people all over the world with the same issues as you. Darrell has been a real inspiration to me, I LOVE his attitude. He is so strong, honest and […]
I was thrilled to get an email from the very lovely Pippa Evans, entertainer, writer and co-founder of Sunday Assembly. She is a fan of the blog and asked if I would come down to London to speak at the Sunday Assembly at Conway Hall. I’ll be honest, I had never heard of the […]
As some regular readers may know, on 6th September 2014 Timm and I renewed our wedding vows after 10 years of marriage. It was at the end of the toughest year of our lives, almost exactly a year before I had a subtotal colectomy and ileostomy and 4 months before I had another big surgery […]
I have been considering a medical alert bracelet for a while but haven’t seen one that I would actually WANT to wear till I stumbled upon the lovely Twisted Typist website and found this one. Medical Alert ID bracelets or necklaces are used for quick recognition of your medical conditions, allergies, medications, or treatment wishes leading to […]
Living with an inflammatory bowel disease, such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, is a challenge. Dealing with comments from the public who don’t understand IBD can be even harder… I’m sure that most of the time people do not mean to be insensitive but it doesn’t stop those comments from being hurtful and annoying. […]