I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a form of IBD, in 2009.
1-7 December was Crohn’s & Colitis Awareness Week across the globe, and the guys at Crohn’s & Colitis UK encouraged everyone to share their story of what it is really like to live with inflammatory bowel disease every day, both good and bad days. They also asked people to donate Read more…
Scars WARNING: GRAPHIC PICTURES BELOW Scars can be metaphorical as well as physical. They can be the events in your life that shape the person you are and can change your perspective on things. In my case, I have both emotional scars and physical scars from my experience with Crohn’s Read more…
Crohn’s & Colitis UK are currently running a campaign called #GoodAndBadDays where they share peoples’ posts on what it’s really like to live with an invisible illness like Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Sometimes you might look fine on the outside, but you feel like utter crap on the inside, whether it’s Read more…
Today is World Ostomy Day and this year’s theme is ‘Many Stories, One Voice’. Because of that, I wanted to share with you my Top Five Most Memorable Ostomy Moments from the last five years and seven months of living with two stomas. There have been good times and bad Read more…
A while back, I was contacted by a chap called Seb Tucknott telling me all about a website he had launched. He asked if I wanted to have a look at it and give him my thoughts. So I had a look at the links he sent me, and as Read more…
If you follow the Colostomy Association on Twitter, you’ll have seen that there’s a charity movement called Stoma Aid which is aiming to raise £22,000 to change the lives of thousands of ostomates across the world who don’t have access to proper ostomy appliances, and who are having to make Read more…
The other day, I saw a comment on one of my posts saying “I love your positivity about everything despite all you’ve been through,” and I’m often asked how I stay so positive. It made me think and reflect on my attitude over the last five years since my ostomy surgery. Sure, the early Read more…
This last week, I’ve really been feeling the love from the IBD community, for two main reasons: Firstly, my YouTube channel trailer was featured on the Crohn’s & Colitis Facebook page and it got over 1300 likes and nearly 200 shares and over a staggering 35,000 views over there! Then, to complete Read more…
For today’s Ostomonday, I created a new trailer for my YouTube channel, showing my health story (so far)! During my teens, I was rather overweight. At university, I started losing a lot of weight, and getting severe abdominal pains. After university, it got a hell of a lot worse… WATCH NOW: Read more…
I know, I know, it’s been a while… but I have a very good reason as to why I’ve been so quiet on this blog of mine… I got married! Yes, indeed, I married the wonderful Chris, who was my first proper boyfriend back when I was 15 and we Read more…
If you saw my blog post yesterday, you’ll know that I pride myself on not just being someone with Crohn’s disease and ostomy bags, but being someone who enjoys all aspects of my life. Brett Kobie of This Is MedTech wrote an article about me, and highlights how the way Read more…
Most of my regular readers will know that I have ostomy bags. But, of course, someone unfamiliar with my blog or YouTube channel may stumble across this post unknowingly and be like, “she has what?!” In 25 days, I’m getting married. And, quite frankly, if it wasn’t for the ostomy surgery, Read more…
Oh deary me. I may have accidentally obliterated a chinese takeaway and a KFC this weekend. It wasn’t just me, of course. Chris was there too. But he’s not the one trying to slim down to fit into a wedding dress, is he? Well… I hope not, at least. That’ll Read more…
BBC Newsbeat has decided to raise awareness of Crohn’s disease. Which is fantastic, we need the public to know everything about Crohn’s disease, to help people spot the symptoms and to find support within the IBD community. It’s great… apart from the fact that their way of ‘raising Read more…
Today is World IBD Day, and so I wanted to share my story. If you’ve been to my site before, you’ve probably already read this, but if not, then read about it here. The IBD Questions Tag I decided to do an “IBD Questions” tag on YouTube but I’ll Read more…