Summer Travel Advice for Inflammatory Bowel Disease from IBD Passport Kay Greveson Inflammatory Bowel disease nurse Specialist Royal Free Hospital, London The time of year has come where you may be planning your summer vacation. Having Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis should not restrict you from travelling but the idea of planning a trip and uncertainties about changes in food and…
Everybody Loves a Hero… Yesterday officially marked my living without a colon for two years. So much has changed since that day. I feel like I’ve been swept up in a whirlwind. I was going to write something different today… about what it was like the day after surgery. Today, however, I feel compelled to write about how I…
What Happens During a Colectomy? If you read last week’s blog post, you’ll know that I’m coming up on ONE YEAR since the removal of my wretched colon on April 15th. The procedure I had done was the proctocolectomy with the construction of a j-pouch and loop ileostomy. A proctocolectomy differs from a colectomy because the rectum (and sometimes…
There is a misconception out there that says surgery is a cure for ulcerative colitis. This does not sit well with me…
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