Wonder article on myths surrounding serious chronic illness.
Archive | December, 2013
T-shirts for an awesome cause!
11 Dec
Alex Davidson is a beautiful 20 year old young woman in the Johns Creek area who is braving her final days due to Crohn’s disease complications. (I wrote about her on this very blog a few weeks ago.) The t-shirts that she helped design are now available for a couple more days. The sale of the shirts will help support her and whichever cause sells the most is awarded $5000. I bought mine yesterday and can’t wait to get it! I hope you will consider it, too. It would make an awesome holiday gift. Alex is an amazing young woman! Her shirt is the super cool owl design.
If You Can Not Hover, You Must Cover
10 DecLocal Woman Glued to Toilet Seat
Okay, my good Southern mother (actually from Ohio) taught me when I learned to use the potty (I was one year old, prodigy all the way) that you should NEVER sit on a public toilet seat. Also, that you should NEVER touch the flusher in a public restroom. Only your foot should be allowed to come in contact with with that germ-laden beast, no matter how high that sucker is. (Due to that I was able to win the gold medal on the tumbling floor exercises in gymnastics at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic games.) To say my Mom was/is a germaphobe when it comes to her kids, might just be the understatement of the century. Ironically enough, one of the MANY “theories” out there on the causes of Inflammatory Bowel Disease is that kids can develop it from being too clean. Go figure.
Silliness aside, my heart is broken for a poor woman who got herself glued to a toilet seat with an industrial glue by a prankster at a local Atlanta Home Depot store. Okay, first I was thinking how this poor soul should have known better than sitting directly on the seat with no “protection.” Then I started thinking about myself and the (thank God) very few times I have had such urgency to have a bowel movement due to my Crohn’s disease that I had not one second to spare while out and about (and you are just praying that you are at a nice hotel’s public restroom and not the one at the back of a 30 year old Texaco gas station that you need to ask the attendant for the key with a small tire attached to it to get in.) This can also be true for women with urine urgency issues.
My prayers are with this lady and I totally agree, the first responders should have gotten her to the hospital before attempting to remove the seat, instead of using WD-40. Ouch! What a crazy world we live in.
~The Belle
Belle Back in the Hospital
4 DecThank goodness this Crohn’s disease flare hospital stay only lasted four days. I got out the day before Thanksgiving. I am posting these pictures just to show that you can’t judge someone’s health just by the way they look. It is a serious problem that many of us have faced and I thought IBD Awareness Week would be a good time to share. (I’m showing off my new portacath in my hospital pic. It’s nice not to have to be stuck a zillion times. lol.)
Don’t judge, we are ALL fighting a battle.
~The Belle
Belle of the Bowel 