Aged 24, Matt Haig’s world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. Years later, he chose to write a book about that dark experience and what he learnt through depression and suicidal feelings. That book was Reasons to stay Alive. The book was a bestseller and has been turned into a […]
When my son told me he wanted to go to University at the beginning of this year, it threw us all into a bit of a panic as he had always said he didn’t want to go! We were miles behind in planning, hadn’t done any of the Uni open days and as neither Timm […]
Someone said to me this year “All we can do as parents is give our children roots and wings”. It really struck me and this week as my eldest child left home for University it felt very apt. I talk about parenting quite a bit here, and it has been interesting to read back how […]
Research has shown that men are 3 times more likely to take their own lives than women across the UK – with men alone accounting for 3 quarters of suicide in 2017. These figures are just unacceptable. The following was sent to me and comes from Caba. I haven’t been paid in any way for […]
Today is a bit of a different post for me, I want to talk a bit about racism. Let me introduce myself My name is Sam Cleasby and I am a British woman and my heritage on my mother’s side is Mizo. Mizoram is an eastern state of India. “Mizoram is one of the states of Northeast […]
Everything seems so unknown and uncertain at the moment. With Brexit looming, I have seen a few people worrying about whether there could be shortage or delays in delivery of ostomy bags. I asked the question on twitter and here are the responses I got from Respond, Coloplast Charter and Convetec. If you are concerned, […]
Six years ago today, I had my colon removed and my first ileostomy formed! And what a ride it has been since then!! You can read that first update Timm made after the surgery here, it is weird to read back. We were both so naïve and knew so little compared to now! What has […]
Last year I got one of those odd phonecalls, they are always the best ones, asking if I would like to have my body painted for BBC Radio Sheffield. And of course I said yes! It was a party for the Naked Podcast and after I appeared as their guest, I was painted live during […]
I have had 8 surgeries related to IBD over the past six years and something that no one told me about was hair loss. Hair loss after surgery is known as Telogen Effluvium and today’s post is all about the T.E. I wrote a little about this in 2016, you can see that post here. […]
I talked a bit about my Glastomadrama at Glastonbury. It was pretty stressful even though it did all end well. But I thought I would just share a few photos as we had a really lovely weekend. I was unsure as to whether we would make it at all as it was only 7/8 weeks […]