J-pouch Life

Hey everyone, Last week I got back from Camp Oasis, which is the amazing camp for 7-17 yr olds with IBD. I posted a blog entry about it here. I honestly urge you all to find the closest Camp Oasis location to you, and volunteer next summer. This camp is a really amazing place for [...]

While there are tons of ideas about where our diseases can and did come from, this was one I hadn’t heard before. I thought it was kind of interesting. I know that during my upbringing, I definitely fell into this group. Meat, fish protein linked to women’s bowel disease

I just did a honkin’ bag review over at my blog  Blood, Poop, and Tears For everyone out there who doesn’t have an ostomy (and even those who have a new one), I put in what I liked and didn’t like about the bags I tried. And I tried A LOT. There are so many [...]

I’ve made a new update on my blog, Blood Poop and Tears, about my second surgery out of three, and how I’m struggling to get healthy enough for it even to happen. Ugh. Being fat is stupid. Here’s a preview. “So guess who has set a date for surgery #2? Yea, its me. Shabam! I [...]

Hey All, I’m FINALLY home! I had to get readmitted for pain control, you can check out the whole story at my other blog, www.bloodpooptears.wordpress.com. But I wanted to let you all know that I took some pictures, they are kinda graphic as usual. So if you want to check em out…here they are. Surgery [...]

Hey ya’ll. Well I’m here at Cleveland, and the first of 3 surgeries is tomorrow. How am I feeling? Eh annoyed. I want to eat. I’m super mega cranky when I don’t eat. Chicken broth is not a meal, people!!!! I’m not really nervous. I’m really ready for this part of my life to be [...]

I’m so over this colon. Its like a pair of jeans that I’ve had forever that I refuse to get rid of. They were great and useful, but now they have a ton of holes in them. But for some reason, I’m hesitant to throw them out. Granted throwing out my favorite denim is a [...]

With the risk of becoming an “over poster”, I was getting a bit freaked out at staring at my face when I logged on to the site. I wanted to share this with you all. I found this website last night (while my UC was preventing me from sleeping) called Uncover Ostomy. There is also [...]

Hi I’m Jackie. I’m a 25 year old woman child from my native of Michigan. I have a bit of an interesting UC story so bear with me while I get my intro out of the way. I was officially diagnosed with UC in May of 2009, but had symptoms for easily 10 years. In [...]