Well hey there! Thank you for coming to read my blog, it’s a work in progress so hang in there, I hope it will improve. My name is Ellie and I have just been diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis. I thought that it might be useful to write about my experiences for other people. I will write candidly (I am not scared to discuss bowel movements) and give an honest opinion where I can. I am not medically trained in any way but this is meant to be a space for…
We moved onto the next stage of the Fertility journey with an initial appointment at Bourn Hall. There is a clinic in Wymondham which is near to us. Prior to going to the first appointment, we had to fill in an extensive questionnaire which felt like a lot. It wanted to know what felt like everything about us. Obviously we had the normal questions about height, weight and all of those things. It also went into previous surgeries we had, whether we had any other children, any medication that we…
Jordan and I have been trying to a baby for a couple of years. We were told prior to my surgery that there might be some issues because of scarring following the surgery. We were trying for about two years before we decided to go to the GP and talk to them about it. We decided to try for a bit longer than the normal year before getting help because we were aware that my body had been through a lot, even after surgery I was still on steroids for…
Looks like we are back again. It has been about a year and a half since I last posted but I regularly think about this blog and what it meant for me and how much I enjoyed doing it. As with everything, life got very busy and I just didn’t have the time to be able to sit down and blog to the level that I wanted to be able to do it. Work was crazy busy, life generally got crazy busy and I guess this just took a bit…