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Stoma Life – YEAR FOUR

What I’ve Learnt and Achieve in the Last Twelve Months with my Ostomy Year Four with Priscilla has been quiet, compared to other years. She settled down into a new routine after proctectomy surgery and wound day surgery. She even remained calm when I came off my medication and we came into 2020. Then COVID happened […]

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Has my Bag Improved my IBD?

It is the week before surgery. I knew the closer we got to my date, I would begin pondering things. August has a tendency to bring up some pretty miserable memories, as well as great ones. I’m coming closer to the anniversary of my stoma surgery, a period in which I was the sickest I’ve […]

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The Perfect Storm

Inspired by writingfortheloveofit – Perfect Storm which can be found here. “Have you ever thought about your life as the perfect storm? Let’s think about it for a moment. A “perfect storm” describes an event where a rare combination of circumstances aggravate a situation drastically. (Wikipedia) Has there ever been a time or times in your […]

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August – you get me every year, without fail.

Inspired and a follow up to my 2018 post “Oh August, Why do You Hate Me?” Something about being in August makes my brain itch. The eighth month of the year, used to be my downtime between school years, between my years at university and it used to be the time I used to relax. […]

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Frustration: When nothing feels like ‘good news’

Inspired by my 2019 post “Pain: When does Acute turn into Chronic?“ The shock on my face when I was told I was needed at SAU – our Surgical Assessment Unit – for a consult on a large peristomal hernia was a classic moment; right up there with coming round from a scope with a […]

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Reflecting on 2020 – The Six Month Update

Inspired and an follow on from my 2019 post “Reflecting on 2019 – The Six Month Update” Gosh, it feels as if it’s taken a long time to get to the end of June but also, where has it all gone? Most of 2020 has been consumed by lock down and this pandemic so it […]

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The Mental Struggles of Chronic Illness

I’ve thrown alot of curve balls lately. So many. Too many to count. I secretly thought this lock down malarkey was going to be a breeze – in simple terms, being at home for months on end, I’ve done that before! – but no. My disease was cackling in the background, just taunting me. With […]

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Fibre with IBD

Hands up who has been on the low residue diet in the months after diagnosis or surgery? There would be very few people with their hands down because it has become the go to diet for those suffering from active inflammation of their condition. Rightly so too; imagine the red, irritated and painful lining of […]

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Life Lately | Lockdown Update

There is something else to be said about trusting your guts… I think if I trusted mine, I would be in serious trouble. But if you look at abit further, a little deeper, there is some truth. My guts are a barometer of pain and of my condition. They let me know when something is […]

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Growing Through your Diagnosis

What’s nice about being an adult and living with IBD is making all your own medical decisions. I remember sitting in my hospital bed and being given my morning medication and being told to take it right then and there. I was 23 years old. I wasn’t a child but I was a newly diagnosed […]

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Should We ‘Celebrate’ our Medical Anniversaries?

anniversary / noun – the date on which an event took place in a previous year. Today marks the fourth anniversary since my first IBD surgery. Part of me feels really nostalgic for that surgery – it was my first, I had no idea what it would feel like or how it would go – […]

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I am scared and that is okay.

I am scared. And that is okay. There is always a little fear when it comes to thinking about your chronic illness. There are alot of questions, not enough answers, you wonder about alot of what ifs and you can sometimes panic with the overwhelmingness of it all. I used to scold myself for being […]

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