New Decade, New Year, New Beginning. It seems to flow nicely, that sentence, doesn’t it? Of course, most beginnings don’t present themselves or occur so succinctly as a new calendar month, let alone year. Which makes a new beginning at new year, feels too neat…
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2020 Goals
YIKES was 2019 a huge year of change! Two big things changed – I lost my bum and I left my job. Both were painful but experiences I chose to go through. Not once did I think I had made a mistake. So as 2019…
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2019 – Year in Review
The blurriest year ever, it feels. It’s been a oddly quick year since Day One, to be honest. What can be taken from 2019 is that time definitely feels faster as I get older and wiser. I have spent this year battling myself. Both physically…
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Health Tracking – My IBD Care
Disclaimer: Occasionally, I am asked to review particular products and services. I work with those who I believe have IBD and ostomy patients’ best interests at heart. In light of this, all views and experiences shared on this blog are mine and of my own…
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Life Lately | Catching My Breath
Oh hey there, hello again. It’s been a while since I did a ‘me and my health’ update. Last time, I spoke about the final stages of my perianal wound healing and a quick GI update. Well, since then, I’ve had my wound close fully…
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I do this alone.
I do all of *this* alone. IBD, it’s very isolating. Let’s face facts: it focuses on your digestive system, about what it produces. You endure tests and investigations for answers for everything – from your diagnosis, all the way through to getting treatment and management…
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Does Experience Make you Wise?
“Turn your wounds into wisdom” – Oprah Winfrey I remember going to my first outpatient appointment when I first felt ‘well‘ and I wondered when would I get used to this? It seemed impossible. It also seemed to be improbable too; who would want to…
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September: Going Back to Zero
September is my New Year. When I went through surgery in August 2016, I’d completely overlooked the fact that five year previous I was going through the early stages of living with undiagnosed Crohn’s Disease. I suppose I did have bigger things to worry…
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Vedolizumab – Two Years On
Third Time Lucky Between October 2015 and September 2017, I started Vedolizumab three times. The first time – October 2015 until February 2016, I was the second patient – first female – at my hospital to receive Vedolizumab as it was only NICE approved that…