Let me start this week's blog by admitting that I love pork - pork chops, pork roast, pork spare ribs, you name it if it's pork I like it. And since I haven't been able to eat beef (without big, bad repercussions) for nearly 10 years, pork helps to put some variety in my mainly chicken and fish diet. But, for the past few months I've been noticing... Read more
Spinach
Well, my flare-up seems to have passed and I'm back to what is normal for me. I found the most interesting thing to be my ability to add baby spinach to my daily diet. I've not been able to eat anything green or leafy for about ten years without terrible, dire consequences. But, during my flare a fellow IBDer recommended spinach. He said... Read more
I think the Internet is great. And I truly appreciate websites like this one. But, if I'm honest then I have to admit that sometimes all this technology makes it far too easy to focus on IBD far too much! That's why you didn't get a blog from me last week - I needed a holiday from IBD.
I'd been in a flare for about two months and in the... Read more
Like me, my dad has UC. When I was a child I never really knew about his gut problems. I did know that he spent a lot of time in the bathroom. And that he always had a small plastic box filled with little white pills (Lomotil) conveniently tucked into a shirt or pants pocket, and would occasionally pop one of the pills into his mouth. Back in the... Read more
Unless you are actually the one living with a chronic illness like IBD I don't think you can really understand just how exhausting and overwhelming it can become. When my symptoms first took hold of me in 1997 ALL I thought about was my gut and poo. No matter how hard I tried to take my mind off of it, I simply couldn't. I was sick and it was the... Read more
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