Category: Health
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Ten Top Tips To Prepare For Ostomy Surgery
I got a whole day to get my head around the idea of having an ileostomy, many people don’t get even get that long, as it is often performed during emergency surgery. For some however, the surgery is scheduled and they have some time to prepare. Physically, this can be a blessing with more time…
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Super Smoothies?
I’ve been trying to up my fruit and vegetable intake recently. Anyone with Crohns/an ileostomy will know this can be tricky as many are off limits for different reasons – too much fibre, skins have to be removed, blockage causers – the list goes on. One way I have started to get more of the…
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Top Five Tips For Getting Through Chicken Pox
It is that time of year again and chicken pox is running rife! My five year old niece has just gone down with it, just in time for the school Easter holidays. My boys picked it up in April 2013 and I am pretty sure they got it from the swimming pool at the Havens…
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The Spoonie Mummy Reviews – No More Grapes
Good morning and happy Wednesday! Hope you are enjoying a great week and good news – it is half way to the weekend! I have a great new website to share with all you spoonies like me, called No More Grapes. I don’t know about you, but getting admitted to hospital, especially when it comes…
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The Spoonie Mummy Reviews – Aqua Carpatica
Apologies for the radio silence today, I am yet again working on another university assignment so am pretty busy! I thought I would pop on this evening to share with you a product I had been sent to try – AQUA Carpatica. You can check out their website here. I was sent a couple of…
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Blog Series – Conditions Associated With IBD – Fistulas
So I didn’t manage to get this one up last week. After the unexpected hospital stay, I took some time off to recover. Today is the second post in the blog series I am doing on conditions associated with IBD and we are looking at fistulas. What are they? A fistula is an abnormal channel…
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A Day In The Life – Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
Happy hump-day one and all. Apologies for the radio silence but after getting out of hospital and resting and then a big appointment on Monday I have been focusing on my health a little. Firstly, if you follow me on social media you will have seen that just under two weeks ago I had another…
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Date Night Ideas For Spoonies
Well, first I should have probably used another title, as if you are anything like me and Ste, you are normally in bed by 8pm! Luckily, these date ideas can be enjoyed at any time of the day. I have tried to include a mix of things that everyone could enjoy. As Ste is TPN…
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