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 >Festive Baking with Louise | Chocolate Yule Log
Festive Baking with Louise | Chocolate Yule Log I have never been a fan of Christmas pudding and with a big thanks to my stoma I can no longer eat it. I make a Christmas cake every year, this year Maisie wants chocolate so chocolate she shall get. This is…
Read more >Festive Baking with Louise | Christmas Cinnamon Thins
Festive Baking with Louise | Christmas Cinnamon Thins It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. We have the annual ‘let’s not poison my daughter’s teachers and support staff’ presents. When she has 3 teachers and 2 support staff it tends to get a little costly to purchase presents. So…
Read more >Festive Baking with Louise | Gingerbread Snap Biscuits
Festive Baking with Louise | Gingerbread Snap Biscuits The kids love gingerbread men, they also love my ginger biscuits, they turn rather feral over these and I have to hide some for myself as they will literally eat them in once sitting if I let them. When these are cooking…
Read more >Festive Baking with Louise | Homemade Custard Cream Biscuits
Festive Baking with Louise | Homemade Custard Cream Biscuits GBBO is on the telly, the irony being we have watched a fair amount of it whilst in lockdown. Trying to keep the kids entertained whilst being unable to take them out unless it is for the allocated hour. My daughter…
Read more >Crohn’s & Colitis Awareness Week
Crohn’s & Colitis Awareness Week This week is Crohn’s and Ulcerative colitis awareness week. This is something that is close to my heart and a time I have celebrated for nearly 20 years. A little insight to me: I am 35 years old, on the outside with clothes and makeup…
Read more >Happy 4 Years to Stoma Life & CrohnsFighting
Happy 4 Years to Stoma Life & CrohnsFighting Thinking back to 4 years ago, I had just started my CrohnsFighting account to document the second set of stoma surgery I was having to help my recovery and acceptance of having life-changing surgery that was hopefully fingers crossed going to change…
Read more >Q&A With Louise: Common Stoma Surgery Questions
Q&A With Louise: Common Stoma Surgery Questions As part of my accounts, I regularly get messages or questions on my posts or on a blog post that has gone live. I thought once a month I can either write a blog post and make a video answering some of the…
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