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Happy Easter!
View recipe: Happy Easter!Happy Easter from our family to yours ❤❤💙💙💖 I hope you are all managing to enjoy your bank holiday weekend and the school holidays. The boys were with their Dad for the first week of the holidays which is always difficult as I miss them terribly. I had the GYBO ball to keep me busy…
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Why Online Support Groups Can Be So Helpful
View recipe: Why Online Support Groups Can Be So HelpfulI joined my first IBD online support group in September 2015. I had been struggling for a while with my mental health and had just made the big step of opening up to my rheumatology nurse about how I was feeling. I had been diagnosed with Crohns Disease almost three years previously but still didn’t…
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GYBO Ball 2017
View recipe: GYBO Ball 2017Apologies for being quiet this weekend. I have been in Birmingham attending the GetYourBellyOut ball, celebrating three years of their campaign. The founders did an amazing job and the party was brilliant. There was an Alice In Wonderland theme and the venue looked fab. Some lovely food (they had treacle sponge and custard ☺️), great…
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‘Good To Talk’
View recipe: ‘Good To Talk’Today is the World Health Organisation’s World Health Day 2017. The focus for this year’s World Health Day is depression. The WHO are running a year long campaign to raise awareness of depression and promote the slogan ‘good to talk’. Close to 10% of the world’s population suffer with depression or anxiety. It’s an illness…
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Stoma Mail
View recipe: Stoma MailWhen I had first had my operation one of the most amazing things was the support I received from people in the IBD and Ostomy communities. From the visit from wonderful Lauren from Purple Wings, to mailed gifts from far and wide to so many messages from people checking up on me – it all…
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The Spoonie Mummy Reviews – Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer
View recipe: The Spoonie Mummy Reviews – Collection Lasting Perfection ConcealerWanted to share this little beauty with you! The Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer is a total godsend if like me you suffer with dark circles under your eyes! As I’ve said before my skin is the first to show the signs that I’m dehydrated and I’m really having to try and take care of it.…
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To Reverse Or Not To Reverse, That Is The Question
View recipe: To Reverse Or Not To Reverse, That Is The QuestionWhen my stoma was formed last year, my surgeon told me that there was a possibility of a reversal in the future. There are many factors for me that will influence whether this could go ahead including the medication I am on and have been on, how things have settled with the stoma, how my…
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Autism Awareness Week
View recipe: Autism Awareness WeekThis week has been World Autism Awareness Week, culminating in World Autism Awareness Day tomorrow (Sunday April 2nd). About 700,000 in the UK alone are on the autism spectrum (including Asperger’s Syndrome). It affects how a person communicates with and relates to others and how they experience the world around them. It is a spectrum…
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