At six weeks post surgery I made the decision that I wanted to start working again. Luckily I work from home, I run a photography company with my husband Timm called The Picture Foundry Timm has been carrying the weight of the business for the last couple of months and so I wanted to try […]
It’s been six weeks post pouch surgery and since I started on the loperamide last Monday, things have improved massively. Last week I was going to the toilet around 20 times a day and having 2-4 accidents a day which was heart breakingly depressing. Dr Brown said I needed to figure out how much or […]
I saw this story this morning and was struck by the idea of having inspirational real women on magazine covers rather than air brushed celebrities. Australian Women’s Weekly have Turia Pitt, a burns survivor who was injured in bush fires on the cover and it makes for a striking and beautiful image. Photo via Womens […]
I was 19 when I had my first child and I felt the weight of the eyes of society watching me and waiting for me to fail, the pressure of being a teenage mother statistic sat in my chest like a bowling ball. I was throwing my life away, they said. I was foolish, immature […]
Couldn’t help myself!!!! Sam xx
All relationships have ups and downs, it can be hard work to keep a strong relationship when times are tough. I thought I would write about how chronic illness can affect a relationship and ways to get through the shitty times to stay strong together. I met my husband Timm 15 years ago in a […]
Here is the response from Crohns and Colitis UK “Junk Food and Crohn’s disease” – Our response: Crohn’s and Colitis UK welcomes the discussion that today’s BBC coverage has created as it generates greater awareness of these often invisible inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). However, the reference to Junk Food being a possible […]
I had another post planned today but I am so incensed by the news report I have head today that I had to write this. The report said that IBD is caused by junk food and is on BBC’s newsbeat, you can read it here. “Dr Sally Mitton says she and her colleagues at St George’s […]
I had my four week check at the hospital yesterday with my awesome surgeon Mr Brown. Everything is looking good! At some point I need to learn when it’s not ok to make inappropriate comments though. He needed to *ahem* examine me and so a nurse was present. She was asking me to assume the […]
This is for Corinne from the ever awesome Motherhood Journeys who told the twitterland about her having to stick a cardi on as her shopping arrived and she was in her jamas with no bra… (Sorry Corinne but if I’m sharing then so are you!) Anyway I thought I’d make her feel better by sharing […]