If you are not happy with the results below please do another search
After months of insomnia I’m thrilled to say that it is gone! That drug induced grind of being unable to sleep no matter how much I want to seems to have disappeared. The nights of being sat wide eyed and wired are in the past. But my sleep patterns are still a bit crazy. I […]
I’ve been a bit shy about sharing a photograph of my stoma. It’s a bit like showing someone your bum hole!! But I know how much it helped me to see other people’s stomas before I had my surgery, so here it is! It may not be pretty but it has changed my life. Because […]
Last night I got a Facebook message from the lovely Luke Baker from Dead Sons. It was out of the blue and I was a little surprised, but when I read it I cried, then snorted, then laughed, then blushed. A lot. I know Luke, as Timm is involved with Dead Sons but I applaud […]
If you read my blog or know me at all, you will know I talk a lot about poo… Some may say I talk shit, but we’ll overlook that! I started the blog as I wanted to stop poo being a taboo, to talk about Ulcerative Colitis and IBD. Over 180,000 people in the UK […]
I am still recovering well, physically my strength is returning though I still feel very tired. Im able to do more now, cooking and cleaning and have developed a terrible nesting instinct! Honestly its like I am 9 months pregnant, I have an urge to rearrange all the rooms, organise and declutter the world! This […]
Wow! What a difference a month makes! Four weeks ago today I had my surgery, I had my large bowel removed in a subtotal colectomy and an end ileostomy formed. Four weeks ago about now I was being taken to the HDU, I was covered in wires, drips and tubes. It was a scary day […]
Im fuming. So super angry. You remember the problems I had with one nurse in particular whilst in hospital? You can read about it here and here. Well the ward manager just called me to let me know he had spoken to the staff concerned and that he hoped I would feel the matter was resolved. […]
Today has been a bit of a write off, after last nights abysmal sleep I spent the day feeling exhausted, emotional and just a bit crap. There is no rhyme or reason to my emotions at the minute, sometimes Im feeling fantastic, really positive and raring to go, at other times I am feeling low, […]
One of the medications for Ulcerative Colitis are steroids, I was put on a course of Prednisolone in June this year. I started at 40mg a day and this did cause my flare up to go into remission. The problem is that when you put these steroids into your body, your body stops producing them […]
Its been 17 days since my surgery and Im healing well. My wound is closed and I have no pain in it, the scar is about 6 inches long and as it was stapled together I have the line and dots of a staple scar. A friend told me that after she had surgery, her […]