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15 – 19 May 2018

May 29, 2018May 29, 2018Leave a comment

Guinness. Derren Brown. Shopping. Ed Sheeran. Dublin Zoo. Temple Bar. Ireland 2018.

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01 February 2017

July 23, 2017August 3, 2017Leave a comment

Meeting the man who saved my life.

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29 November 2016

January 30, 2017August 3, 20173 Comments

If you don't have surgery tomorrow, you'll be dead in three days.

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28 November 2016

January 30, 2017August 3, 2017Leave a comment

You're in luck - you've avoided surgery!

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07 November 2016

December 24, 2016August 3, 2017Leave a comment

Time to go to the doctors.

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03 November 2016

December 22, 2016August 3, 2017Leave a comment

Something's not right...

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October 2016

December 22, 2016August 3, 2017Leave a comment

Home. Work. Ill.

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15 September 2016

December 22, 2016August 3, 2017Leave a comment

The beginning.

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WALK IT 2018

In June, I'll be walking 10km around London to raise money for Crohn's & Colitis UK. If you'd like to sponsor me and help me reach my target of £200 then click the link below - thank you!

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Dearest body and immune system of mine, Please don’t reject my newest sparkly addition. It’s not an organ that you need to try and “protect” me from, it’s just a piece of jewellery, that hopefully you’ll like more than my last two belly bars. Please try your best to just let it heal (nicely), thaaaaaaanks xoxo #piercing #new #me #girl #ear #freckles #hearts #diamonds

6️⃣ #DearJune The sixth day is all about travel, which is something I love to do. This photo is one of my favourites from my season working for Thomas Cook. But it brings mixed bag of memories. I’d gone to Pamukkale with my Dad, it was a four hour bus journey and I was so symptomatic that day but I still loved every second of it. When I first had my surgery, I was worried it would stop me travelling, but in the last 2.5 years since my surgery I’ve visited more places than I did in my final 2.5 years bag free. My bag not always stick in the heat, but travelling is more enjoyable now I’ve only got 30cm of ulcers to deal with rather than having 5ft of toixic-ness inside me 🤷🏼‍♀️ #travel #pamukkale #memories #throwback #life #sallythestoma #ibdlife #ulcerativecolitis

Perfect weather for the @crohnsandcolitisuk Walk It in London today! 💜 #charity #walkitlondon #lifetakesguts #ittakesguts #ulcerativecolitis #crohnsdisease #ibd #inflammatoryboweldisease #london #sightseeing #stpauls

4️⃣ #DearJune I genuinely have the memory of a goldfish. I am so forgetful at times and it bugs me because I don’t think I ever used to have a memory this bad but it seems I am now a real life goldfish. One of the main things I tend to forget is that I don’t have the energy levels of a “normal” 25 year old. I make plans for after work and on my days off and then wonder why I’m exhausted at the end of it. I forget that my two days off every week, can’t both be spent doing stuff. I can have one busy day, and the other day I need to set aside and allow myself to be a sloth and just sleep if I need to. I forget that fatigue is a huuuuge part of my life until it hits me in the face and I struggle to get my words out. It’s annoying. #forgetful #forget #fatigue #goldfishmemory

3️⃣ #DearJune Last weekend I went to see Craig David in my local park with some of my best friends! There was food, cocktails, glitter, music and of course the girls so what more could I ask for?! ✨ My Colitis has been getting worse in the few days up to it and I was anxious about it being bad whilst in the park so I upgraded my ticket to have access to a separate section of toilets but I didn’t need to use it as much as I thought it would! 😊 #music #concert #castlepark #colchester #craigdavid #sigala #beckyhill

2️⃣ #DearJune (I’m behind already, I know 🤦🏼‍♀️) The second day of Dear June is all about yellow, and although I instantly thought of sunflowers, I don’t have any pictures of sunflowers to upload apart from the one I uploaded for the first day of the month. And the second thing I think of when I hear the word yellow is food - simply because yellow food is safe food and I eat a lot of it! I have a fair few abdominal adhesions which means food that is high in fibre has trouble passing through my small bowel and causes me cramps when it gets stuck. Sometimes they’re bearable and I can get by with some mint tea, massaging my tummy and a heat pack and then sometimes they’re so bad I get admitted to hospital because I’ve collapsed from the pain and morphine is the only thing that takes the edge off. But plain, bland looking, yellow foods are generally (but not always) low in fibre and don’t cause my gut any issues. Like this yummy fish and chips! So that’s what I think of when I think yellow, plus the curry sauce does some funky stuff to my output! If you know, you know! 😂 #dearjune #daytwo #yellow #food #sunflowers #fishnchips #currysauce #fish #chips #bread #lowfibre #bland #plainjane #safefoods #ibdlife

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