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 a lot happens in very short periods of time and it as ever hasn’t been a smooth ride. I had my surgery on 2nd February 2021 and I woke up in recovery being told that it had all gone well. I looked down and checked, stoma bag was there as…
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 hard. I looked into alternative medication therapies, asked question after question as to why I couldnt try this, that and the other, but it was becoming glaringly obvious that the drugs just were not working. The last time that I was in hospital, IV steroids got the symptoms under control…
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 existence? Who knows, but there is definitely an update now! On December 27th, I started having symptoms of a flare up, increased blood as well as abdominal pain. I did as instructed and called the IBD team who put me on a steroid foam and a suppository to try and…