Another Fine Mess
It’s been an embarrassment of months since I last blogged. The truth is, the longer I live with a bag, the less I notice it, think about it, remember how very different it is to be pooing from a bit...
View ArticleDon't Feed Us This Crap
Yesterday morning, Dr Sally Mitton, a gastroenterologist at a London hospital, said on BBC Breakfast that Crohn’s Disease is caused by eating junk food and being over prescribed anti-biotics. This...
View ArticleGut Reaction
I wrote this blog back in July, but didn’t post it. Somehow it felt too raw, too personal; I’d been enjoying writing light, humorous posts about language and the career I used to have writing satire....
View ArticleBagrophobia?
There’s been a lot of anger on the internet lately – particularly on Twitter – about people’s use of language. Mostly I don’t mind what language people use as long as they’re not being stupid about...
View ArticleA Matter of Trust
In the mid-90s, having found myself on a hiatus from surgeries where huge chunks of my bowel got hacked out, and having survived giving birth to a very small boy, I was writing quite a lot for radio....
View ArticleAn Itch In Time
I’m not a girly girl. I’m not a girl at all, actually; in a few weeks I’ll turn an age that gives me a far more up-close-and-personal view of 50 than I ever imagined I’d get. Not because of the whole...
View ArticleCarry On Up The Pain Clinic
I am now on day 3 of not having a flare-up any more, and it’s really rather fantastic. I’m tired, of course – not because of the evil Crohn’s malaise, but because I spent the last 2 days doing...
View ArticleEvery Cloud
In 1988, my surgeon told me I had two years left to live. That sounds melodramatic doesn’t it? If not slightly ridiculous. I thought that at the time. I was pretty sure for the whole of those two...
View ArticleThat Sink In Feeling
In a week where the world breathes a sigh of relief at the Americans making a better voting decision than we in the UK did last time round; where the cuts in our country are so bad that a disabled man...
View ArticleThe Patient Is Exempt
I’m now well into week 2 of this flare-up and I can’t say I’m enjoying it terribly much. It hurts when I eat, it hurts when I don’t, and I feel sick half the time. The morphine makes me feel sicker,...
View ArticleA Walk In The Park
This week, we are firmly in the present. In this particular present, I am in bed with a very painful gut and problems eating. I have hardly any energy and none of this is helped by the pneumatic drill...
View ArticleDr Horrible
A while ago, I wrote a post about a bad nurse I had to contend with while I was in hospital last October. It got quite a lot of attention, and a few people wanted to know if I’d ever had a bad doctor....
View ArticleCaught in a (Mouse) Trap
Last week I just about brought you up to date – I didn’t give you the results of the MRI, because I haven’t had them yet. I can only imagine that if they were serious in any way, I would’ve been...
View ArticleShock Treatment
My flare-up was over, but there was still the MRI to get through. I decided I might as well have it, as it would tell us if there was anything going on that I should be worried about. Not that I...
View ArticleNo Appointment Required
It was mid May, my proctectomy surgery – the one where they took out my rectum, sewed up my anus, rendered me unable ever to fart again; I may have mentioned it before – had been back in October of...
View ArticleSweet Dreams
At the end of April, it was my sister-in-law’s birthday. One of those big birthdays with a zero on the end, that people feel honour-bound to celebrate loudly and with huge gestures. I’m sure she...
View ArticleThe Drugs Don't Work
It had been half a year since my proctectomy, and still my healing and recovery dragged ever onward with neither improvement nor deterioration. With every day the same routine of waking up, trying to...
View ArticlePain In The Butt
Once I’d established I was one of the 27% of Crohn’s patients who have their anuses sewn up and take ages to heal, you’d think I’d have let it go at that. And maybe I would have, if the healing had...
View ArticleThe Pyjama Test
Recovering from any operation is a fairly long and tedious process. Recovering from the proctectomy was longer, and more tedious than I’d ever experienced before, and it was my 9th or 10thsurgery...
View ArticleDuck, Soup!
After last week’s leap into what was a particularly horrible bit of the present, in which we lost our lovely baby cat and cried a lot, it is quite a relief to take this week’s post back into the...
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