J-pouch Life

So, I went to see funny-lady Margaret Cho tonight. If you know anything about Ms. Cho, you know she does some killer, hilarious impressions of her Korean parents, and that she’s a little raunchy. She spent the better part of the evening talking about “her hole.” Her anus, to be exact. She started the show [...]

Hi all! So for those of you who have followed my story for the past few months you know there have been many ups and downs.  New theories emerged, the one most perplexing and possibly exciting one being that perhaps I didn’t actually have Crohn’s disease-maybe just a horrible case of pouchitis due to poor [...]

Hi ya’ll. So, if you’ve been keeping up with the blogs over the past few months, you know I’ve had test after test to see what’s wrong with my pouch/me. Throughout the years I’ve had strictures, twisted J-pouch, Crohn’s, pouchitis. Now my new surgeon wonders if I even have Crohn’s. Maybe it’s just the worst [...]

Well, my J-pouch and I are now married to a wonderful, fully-coloned man named Rob.   We both have a new last name.  Not sure if the pouch is going to hyphenate or not… Our knight in shining armor is Rob, who has stuck by us through blockages, twisting guts, and many surgeries. What a guy! [...]

First off, let me congratulate myself on the witty title I concocted while lying on a stretcher with a catheter rushing contrast dye into my vag. That takes mad humor-under-pressure skillz. Way to go, Liz! So, maybe I should have called it “Return from the Crap-o-Gram”, because that’s what I’ve just done. For all of [...]

Humpty Dumpty had IBD, Humpty Dumpty said, “Shit! Why me?” Humpty took drugs, said, “Man, this sucks!” and opted to get sur-ge-ry. Hi, all! It’s me again, back with an update. The past four months have been one fun test after another. The first was my ass-reaming (pouch scope) in January to determine what was [...]

Hi, all! Well, I have a bit of a mixed bag here today news wise. Here are my updates. Got a decent severance package from the firm that “fired me” because I missed so many days when I was sick. However, they still keep calling me to ask for help…Hmmm…Went to see the new surgeon [...]

Well, this is one of those days that I come here to post and I wish I had a positive, uplifting one for you…perhaps this will turn out to be just that. Today, I was fired from my job because of my inability to come to work regularly because of my disease. Now, my employer [...]

I think we’ve all been at points of struggle with these diseases where we felt hopeless. For most of us, the J Pouch operation gives us our lives back. It gives us an opportunity to live it. It gives us an opportunity to hope. I have done volunteer work for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation [...]