IBS Tales

There’s a new spoof news program coming out on BBC2, for which I have seen a couple of trailers. My TV guide magazine says that it is hilarious, but I’ve already decided not to watch. Why? Because they’ve called one of their channels “IBS news”. Man, that’s funny. Can you imagine?! A news channel named [...]

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Well that was exciting. Even after all these years my IBS can still surprise me. It’s not sitting still, no way, it’s evolving, it’s creative, it’s hip and trendy and right in the now. Hurray (or, rather, hurroo). I just had a particularly weird hour episode. It was kind of 30 seconds of fairly intense [...]

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I sometimes feel that, with a condition such as IBS, it is necessary to set up some kind of motivational system in your head to keep you going. I tend to think of this in terms of cheerleading, having a little voice in your mind that has to keep saying “You can do it, just [...]

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We all have hopes for the future – what we want to achieve, what kind of house we want to live in, whether we want to be married or have children or live as a hermit in Peru. I don’t really remember when I stopped having normal ambitions, but they’ve definitely gone. My ambition in [...]

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