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Thank You Supporters of Jpouch Dot Net!
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 21:28 1 CommentRecently, Jpouch Life has received some really really generous donations. Thank you! (If you haven’t noticed this before, there is a really pretty yellow-orange donate button over there on your right.) We wanted to post this quick note to let you know that we are here, the people on the “backend” that pay for server space, [...]
IBS? Nah: Irritable Vowels!
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 20:33 No CommentsSome humor for all of you today. If you can’t laugh because it hurts too much from surgery or a flare – I’ve been there. If you can laugh, good for you! It takes a long time to “get over” the psychological ramifications of having one of the basic human functions completely effed with. Here [...]
Western Diet Causes Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 20:33 No CommentsYou know, I’ve heard this again and again and again. I’ve heard about refined sugar and the like. In fact, I’ve read about this notion so often that I might be starting to believe it. What do you guys think? From Science Now: All those Lucky Charms and Big Macs that people in the developed [...]
Colston Thomas Mills
Saturday, March 27, 2010 22:30 4 CommentsDear fellow Jpouch.net readers, hello and how are you? I know you don’t know my full story and I apologize. It’s mainly because I’m too lazy to type it all up that you haven’t seen a complete posting from me. If you’ve stuck around long enough, you’ve seen my hernia (which is still there), you [...]
Blood, Poop, and Tears
Friday, February 19, 2010 17:40 3 CommentsI love the logo for Jackie’s new blog! If you have a minute, go check out her posts, and hopefully she won’t be a stranger around these parts. Check our her blog here.
Haiti Earthquake Support
Saturday, January 16, 2010 20:39 1 CommentFriends, Over the last 72 hours we have been asked for any possible effort(s) to help people, families, and caregivers in Haiti. For now we would encourage our readers to support relief agencies like the Red Cross. Currently it is too early to develop or provide support other than those connected to search, rescue, and [...]
Jpouch Life Now iPhone Friendly!
Sunday, November 29, 2009 21:37 1 CommentWell, I know, it’s no fun sometimes, that is, sometimes you have to spend time in the hospital. Hey, we’ve all been sick, had surgeries, or been visiting someone who has. Sometimes the computers don’t work in the hospital, or even on a sunny day at the beach. Now we have a new way for [...]
Plaid Pantry Denies Bathroom to Crohn’s Customer
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 21:35 9 CommentsTime to boycott the Plaid Pantry, whatever that is. (Is that like a 7-11?). Reading through posts on the Consumerist weblog, trying to decide if I should subscribe to its RSS feed, I came across this article about a fellow IBD sufferer who was denied access to a bathroom. As a result, she pooped her [...]
Colitis by Numbers: Days Since Module Tracks Flares, Tapers, and more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 21:46 1 CommentPeople always used to give me strange looks when I would tell them that it has been 485 days since my first surgery. I’m no “rainman” or anything, I just use a bunch of different forms of technology to keep track of my health. I’d like to start sharing them with you. Starting with the [...]


