Tag: support
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Top Ten Favourite IBD & Ostomy Support Groups
As this week is Mental Health Awareness Week and this Saturday marks World IBD Day I thought I would do a post combining the two. When diagnosed with a chronic illness like IBD, mental health problems often come hand in hand. Being told you have an illness that will never go away, spending lots 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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An Interview With Rich Clarke
It has been a little while since I did an interview piece as I have been so busy but today I get you introduce you to a good friend of mine, Rich. I asked Rich if I could interview him about life as a parent of a child with a chronic condition. Rich’s oldest child,…
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#SMSelfLoveClub – Week 2
Welcome to week two of The Spoonie Mummy Self Love Club! How are you finding it so far? The feedback and messages I have had have been brilliant and super positive which makes me really happy. I hope you are finding it useful, some of the questions aren’t easy to think about but that is…
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Post #100
I am incredibly grateful and amazed to announce that this is my 100th live blog post! I just want to say a big thankyou to everyone who reads, supports, comments and likes things on here and across all my social media accounts. When I started up I was so nervous that I was just going…
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It’s Not A Competition And We Can Wear White!
This is something I wrote yesterday on my Facebook page after seeing this post and the responses. I’m not sure whether this post was written in a celebratory manner or not but there were lots of derogatory comments about Sam Faiers and ‘how ill’ she is. Now I don’t agree with all she has said…
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8 Things You Will Understand When Both You and Your Partner Have A Chronic Illness
Me and Ste have now been together almost ten months. We met through an online support group for people with IBD, becoming friends before meeting up and starting a relationship. My ex-husband was not very supportive when it came to my health problems. It is always tricky when you meet someone new with a view…
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Why Online Support Groups Can Be So Helpful
I 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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