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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. [...]

Well, hanging out in my gmail inbox today I noticed this link for a “blog” that promised to beat colitis by using the recommendations of a book. After looking into it further, I discovered many other “blogs” that have exactly the same content pointing to the same or similar books. What a shame. Colitis and [...]

I’m off for the week to New York. My wife and I will be riding in the “five boros” bike tour where they close down the streets of NYC and thousands of bikes take to the road. Am I bragging? Yes! But dammit, I’ve been through hell in the last year, so I wanted to [...]

It’s Friday, ask us Jpouchers your toughest questions and anything you’re too embarassed to ask your surgeon. Be well!

This is cool: Rob Spence, a film maker who damaged one eye as a child, will install a camera into the socket where his eye used to be. A fan of the 1970s television series “The Six Million Dollar Man,” Spence said he had an epiphany when looking at his cell phone camera and realizing [...]

Well, given my status as a male, I’m not really qualified to answer this question, but I’ll give it a shot. How long after surgery should you wait to have sex (as a women)? I have read 6 weeks on the mayo clinic website, but the surgeon didn’t even mention anything to me. The “six [...]