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New year, new me?

Not quite new year, new me entirely but there is a bit of that going on but I guess what I really mean is new year, new look on my website. As a bit of a revamp, I have got…

And now we’re back!

So, it has been a really long time since I have written and for that I can only apologise. I have gone back to work and as usual, thrown myself in at the deep end and sometimes I wish there…

Recovery 1.4 – Home Glorious Home

WARNING – GRAPHIC CONTENT BELOW And so I was home. For all of 24 hours. And it was not so glorious I have to say. I came home with an anxious Jordan and an excited Archie and I was sore.…

Recovery 1.3

So after the horrendous experience with the NG tube and all of that, I sort of just plodded my way through the next few days with the tube out. I made sure that I was up and walking, I made…

Recovery 1.2

WARNING – GRAPHIC CONTENT DESCRIBED BELOW…. So after an idyllic few days on Dilham, where I thought that the world was rosy and while getting out of bed continued to be a rather inelegant movement for me to do, it…

Recovery 1.1

So on Dilham Ward I started my new life with my stoma! Initially I was told that I could eat effectively what I wanted but I decided to stick to things that seemed easy to eat. So I usually had…

Recovery 1.0

I don’t even know what to call the series of blogs that are going to come next. I’ve decided to write them in bite size pieces, ready for people to read quickly and easily because as always, a hell of…

Surgery

It took a while, I was an inpatient for 4/5 days as I looked down the barrel of the gun that said that surgery was going to be the best option for me at this point. I fought it so…

Well, what to say now

So I haven’t written properly in a while, and I guess maybe that is because there wasn’t a lot to talk about? Or maybe I was just denying the fact that I had Ulcerative Colitis and wanting to ignore its…