The Importance of Practicing Self-Love This Valentine’s Day
The Importance of Practicing Self-Love This Valentine’s Day Happy international day of love! Valentine’s Day this year is going to be different, most of us have been under lockdown for the last year and going out to celebrate isn’t an option so all of us will be doing the new…
Read more >Exercise During Lockdown
Exercise During Lockdown As a nation we are currently in lockdown number 3, the gyms are closed, getting hold of gym equipment or weights is like finding a rainbow with a pot of gold underneath it. People are spending most of their time at home, homeschooling and working remotely. Working…
Read more >Common Myths About Living With a Stoma
Common Myths About Living With a Stoma Over the years I have heard so many different comments about stomas. Fact vs fiction of who should and shouldn’t have a stoma. Along with being told you’re too young etc. So what have you been told about your stoma? What are people’s…
Read more >5 Things to Remember in 2021
5 Things to Remember in 2021 Happy New Year my gorgeous people, I hope you had a good Christmas and New Year despite the circumstances we are currently in. I just want to remind you all, you are not alone and to stay strong. If you feel you are really…
Read more >New Year, No Resolutions
New Year, No Resolutions Hello, my lovely Pelican readers & a Happy New Year to you all. Admittedly, I’m sure a lot of us aren’t feeling the word “happy” in that first sentence with the struggle of 2020 and now being back in lockdown in 2021 wondering when it’s all…
Read more >Q&A With Louise: Fertility, Pregnancy & Periods
Q&A With Louise: Fertility, Pregnancy & Period Read part 1 here With the new lockdown, I have seen an active increase on my messenger account recently. I have been asked regularly about fertility after surgery and more so after barbie butt surgery. I also get asked about what contraception I use after…
Read more >Walk the Mind: Using Exercise to Look After Your Mental Health
Walk the Mind: Using Exercise to Look After Your Mental Health This past year has been pretty surreal, I wouldn’t say it has been easy. You can’t hug your mum but you can go to a pub, you can’t get married, funerals are restricted and everything is just up in…
Read more >Barbie Butt Life | Two Year Update
Barbie Butt Life | Two Year Update On the 19th of October 2018, I had my loop ileostomy refashioned to an end ileostomy, had my large bowel removed and my rectum closed. Bertha mark 2 is now in residence and I have not looked back. Wow, 2 years on… The…
Read more >The Benefits of a Quiet Christmas
The Benefits of a Quiet Christmas Christmas is fast approaching, a normal Christmas is out of the ordinary this year. For those of us with children, co-parenting and juggling is always a balancing act. I can not actually remember the last time I had a “ Christmas at home”. When…
Read more >Christmas Dinner With Crohn’s Disease
Christmas Dinner With Crohn’s Disease Merry Christmas my Beautiful Who’s, Are you all as excited as I am for Christmas this year? I am slightly gutted that I will not be able to celebrate with the whole family, I spent two years in a row in hospital on Christmas Day…
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