Employment – update!

So, as I wrote about earlier, about halfway through my hospital stays I became unemployed from a set of circumstances that were entirely beyond my control. In my head in fact, 2020 was going to be this wonderful year where I set about a new career that was going to be in equal parts challenging and rewarding, making me use my current experiences while also making sure that I was constantly learning and developing on the job. It was going to put me out of my education bubble that I…

Managing a mini-flare up

As with all things, recovery is never a simple process and the road is never a straight one. In the course of learning more about Ulcerative Colitis I have had a couple of what I call mini-flare ups. Generally this revolves around feeling a bit rubbish and tired, having stomach pain, having a few toilet attacks and it all just feeling a little bit wrong. When this first happened, I was extremely scared. We had William for the weekend and I cried a lot about it. I had woken up…

Replay Sports Therapy

I have been working with Replay Sports Clinic for a few years now and they usually are fixing me after various rugby injuries. After a major ankle injury in 2015 I went to them to try and get my ankle working again. I had been discharged from the hospital after 7 months on crutches having had 2 surgeries without any forms of physio and while I had managed to get my ankle back to relatively normal, I wasn’t really able to run around and everything that I was used to…