As the title suggests; IT’S CHRISTMAS! So, for one day and one day only a break from all things IBD and poo related and I simply want to write a post to say thanks. Thank you for reading if you don’t know me (and if you do). For those that are close to me, thank you for supporting me through one of the toughest times in my life (that sounds dramatic but it was genuinely very difficult). Without the people that I have around me who supported me and continue…
So this is one of the worst things that has happened and TECHNICALLY happened before I was diagnosed but it is definitely IBD related. We have a toilet downstairs in our house and a couple of months ago it got blocked. As we are slightly lazy people, we didn’t get anyone to look at it, partly because of lockdown and partly because neither of us wanted to contact the rental people. Eventually both of us got sick of having to run upstairs if we wanted the toilet and we finally…
My diagnosis of Ulcerative Colitis was a bit of a major moment for me. I had plans to go into the police (as I have spoken about) and all of this changed pretty quickly. I was left in hospital for a number of days, I was not working and I had to change my career path. Suddenly people were telling me that I was going to have to change my diet, I needed to work out ways to cope with stress better and all sorts of different things. I was…