Sometimes living with Colitis/Crohn’s you find that food can be a source of frustration. Some weeks you can eat what you want with mild restrictions, but for the most part it’s mashed potatoes, fish and cooked down vegetables! Sometimes you can switch it up with a fresh juices or whatever,…
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Happy UnBirthday To Me!
No it is not my birthday. However, yesterday we did celebrate my SECOND BIRTHDAY as my mom calls it. April 7th marks the day my life changed forever! It’s the day I had my total colectomy. I closed my eyes April 7th in the worse pain I had ever experienced,…
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That Ostomy Life!
I suppose this is the year for random recognition in national magazines. First my photos were in Jet magazine and now my life with an Ostomy got me in another one! That’s right kids, someone thought my story was interesting enough to write about…as if I don’t do that enough…
Cramping My Style
*J-Pouch Complaint Alert!* It feels wrong to say that I have a complaint about the alternative to an Ostomy life, but dang it if it doesn’t has it’s downfalls. I think the combination of the Colitis symptoms disappearing and the stories I hear about people having lived with a j-pouch…
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A Dino Of A Time
If your television is stuck on shows like Dinosaur Train & Dino Dan, you find mini dinosaurs inside your work bag and toiletry bags and you’ve made more trips to the Natural History Museum than you care to count… Erth’s Dinosaur Petting Zoo is a MUST! It is a 50…
Self Health
I received aGroupon gift from my son’s father for two massages and a posture screening at Vitality Health Center in Venice. I wasn’t really sure what the heck a posture screening was, I was more exciting about the two free massages. Especially after the year I had. So I go…