It’s interesting looking back on my life with Colitis. For the past few months I’ve been obsessed with remembering moments and symptoms and comparing notes. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I’m trying to get a handle on a why and how. Why it happened? And how did it get…
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World Ostomy Day! ~Get Educated & Celebrate Life!
Saturday October 6th is World Ostomy Day and because of my reversal surgery last Saturday, it looks like I will be celebrating it without an Ostomy! Yes y’all it would seem that the Colitis/Ostomy chapter of my life has closed with the taking down of my Ileostomy. But that doesn’t…
Fitness Club for Mommies & Daddies
Unless you have a fulltime nanny or older children that act as in-house babysitters, finding time to work out as a parent is super super hard! Working or Stay at Home parent…it’s just too hard to find the time or a babysitter while you spend an hour and half at…
The End of The Day
This guy I’ve been emailing on Match goes through this list of things he likes to do after work and then he asks, what is my evening like. I suddenly flash into That’s So Raven like vision spin and my average evening is laid before me: Trying to hide vegetables…
Ouchie!
Now, since developing UC I have found that my tolerance for pain is pretty high! Not too much will phase me. But, er, uh…this right here…what I gots going on right hurr with this little reconstruction, pouch surgery, loop ostomy sitiation (yea that’s right sitiation. Sit-E-A-tion!) is ridonkulous!!! This ish HURTS!…
The Naked Surgical Truth: The J-Pouch Chapter
Well hello again everyone!! It’s been about a week now since I received my new improved colon, also known as Ileal-pouch but more commonly known as the J-Pouch. You might be wondering how I feel…well, to be perfectly bluntly honest, I feel horrible! This shit HURTS! Like for real, Ouch!…