J-pouch Life

Hey! It has been a busy few weeks, months for Mark and myself. We’ve now been in Athens (ATH), Georgia for two full months!  Seems so much longer, doesn’t it?  We really have taken on a new life here and it is going so well.  The first and biggest thing – we are no longer [...]

The issues with body image are prevalent for individuals who undergo surgery such as the colectomy to jpouch.  Many individuals struggle with the stoma and appliance and self-esteem/body image. Others struggle with the scars after all is said and done.  We rarely see ostomies and scars out in the world for people to easily view. [...]

Back in August we covered Brenda, who was just starting her surgeries. She started a blog about her journey where we followed her story. She had some hard times, then she didn’t post for a while, and now she has posted with wonderful news. She wasn’t posting much because she has her life back now [...]

In Jenelle’s last post she brings up a great point about coping and how her partner would help her find funny or light distractions when she was blue. I love the idea of sharing movies or books that make us smile. For me it is always a great love story and some of mine include [...]

HEY — I’m not too proud to send a reminder that ya’ll should start voting for the lil’ blog that could. We are in 5th place with 3% of the vote, so don’t count us out as the winners Please vote here for best medical/health issues blog between January 8- 13.  Let the voices of [...]

GREAT NEWS!! UCstory to Jpouch Life has been nominated for Best Medical/Health Issues Blog of 2008 by the Weblog Awards. There were many great blogs vying for the chance to be nominated. We are 1 of 10 nominees and feel very proud that people are willing to acknowledge the issues we talk about on the [...]

Here is a little vintage toilet paper advertising for you. The ad reads: Now at last smart young homemakers can have color in a truly luxurious bathroom tissue. Soft-Weve – softer, nicer kind of tissue – now brings you four gay flower colors…for wonderful “mix or match” color schemes. Nice, we could call this a [...]

The wonderful resources at Health Health Talk – Colitis have put together another excellent webcast. The webcast is titled “Which Medications  and Surgeries Can Help Your Colitis?” – The host Rick Turner is talking with Alan Buchman, M.D., M.S.P.H. about the following: Are you looking for more relief from your colitis symptoms but aren’t sure [...]

Hello Everyone! Mark and I have some really excited news to share with you – ucstory.wordpress.com is expanding and becoming www.jpouch.net.  It is the same site as always that will share Mark’s story and photos and journey with his jpouch, but we also have many wonderful bloggers on the site with some old (Carter, Jenelle, Casey, [...]