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Real life with Crohn's, Anxiety and Depression – you gotta laugh….


  • May 15, 2022

    Obsessed

    I am minorly (OK more than minorly) obsessed with toilet paper.  Whenever I enter a bathroom I check the toilet paper roll.  If it’s less than a quarter full, even if I’m going for a pee, I need to get another one to have on hand for emergencies.  Fairly often my bowels are like “oh

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  • May 12, 2022

    Big girls don’t cry

    Big girls don’t cry

    I cried today for the second time in three years, so, quite the occasion.  You’d think I’d cry all the time, but I have managed at some point, I don’t know when it happened, to completely internalise my tears.  It takes something pretty significant to make me cry these days.  I feel like crying plenty

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  • May 11, 2022

    Always be my baby?

    Always be my baby?

    I think of my bowels as a strange toddler I didn’t choose to have.  Before leaving the house you always have to go try to get your kid to have a pee.  Except with my bowels, I visit the bathroom and make sure I have a poo.   I don’t have to feel the need

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  • May 9, 2022

    Hello? Can you hear me?

    Hey, hello, hi.  Welcome to all who may be reading.  My life has three main themes:  Crohn’s disease, depression and anxiety, plus single parenting and family.  I live on a tiny island, run my own business after trying out two previous careers, and just basically try to find the humour in each challenging day.  I’ve

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