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I 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.

Friends,
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 recovery [...]

Well, 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 [...]

Time 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 [...]

People 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 [...]

James Orr, 66, was on trial in Cincinnati, Ohio yesterday for robbery and kidnapping when he disrupted the hearing with an extreme act of grossness. Orr reportedly asked his attorney if he had any food. When the attorney told him no, Orr apparently put his colostomy bag on the table, squeezed out the contents, and [...]

All right, we did it, I know I know… well, we’re over on Twitter now with the handle JpouchLife. Will you still respect us in the morning? All jokes aside, Twitter is a really great place to connect with new people and spread our community understanding and awareness. Hope you’ll give us a follow.

Everyone’s favorite humor columnist, Dave Barry, has a great piece on Colonoscopies that a co-worker recently dug up and sent to Brevin. Too long to reproduce here, there are some highlights that I’m sure we all can relate to (especially in the case of his hospital descriptions). Since I was in the hospital 47,000 times [...]

Your comments, questions, concerns, jokes, and advice are the bread and butter of Jpouch.net. With that in mind, we’ve added some cool new features that we think you’ll like.
Threaded comments. You can now reply to a specific comment on a post or on the bulletin board by clicking the reply link below that comment. This [...]