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Jpouch.net – Top Chron’s/UC Blog Honor from Healthline.com by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health Hi All, Recently little jpouch.net was acknowledged by www.healthline.com as one of 11 top chron’s blogs on the interweb – how exciting! Check us out along with the ... Read on »

Something Bit Me in the Chihuahuan Desert, and It Wasn’t a Chihuahua by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health No chihuahuas were harmed in the posting of this blog. Hello fellow colonless travelers! (Really, does that “colonless” greeting ever get old?) I have returned ... Read on »

I Have Crohn’s Disease, and I Have to Poop. by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health So, friends without large bowels, how are you? What’s new? How’s the plumbing working? Mine’s been so-so lately. I feel like I’ve been on the verge of a pouchitis/Crohn’ ... Read on »

Loss & Gain by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health This is something I haven’t discussed on the blog-I always try to keep it strictly IBD and health-related, but sometimes themes overlap. This year, I’ve lost a lot of peop ... Read on »

Return from Pouch Paridise by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health Like a beacon calling to your consonant-shaped guts. Bringing you an instant recap from my day of ass-reaming at the J-pouch resort that is Cleveland Clinic. This is ... Read on »

Dr. Shen, Part Deux and The Third Button by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health Dr. Shen, Part Deux And… The Third Button Hello no-coloned readers. Long time no blog. I’ve improved so much since last-year’s visit with Dr. Shen that I h ... Read on »

Take another walk by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health Hey guys, it’s been a while, and I thought I would update everyone one what has been going on since my last post back in September of We'er getting married! la ... Read on »

Thank You Supporters of Jpouch Dot Net! by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health Recently, Jpouch Life has received some really really generous donations. Thank you! (If you haven’t noticed this before, there is a really pretty yellow-orange donate ... Read on »

2 Years Post TakeDown by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health It’s been two years since my takedown and, as a society, we still don’t have flying cars or cloned dinosaurs. That I know of. I mean, I check the news daily to see if any ... Read on »

Help Joplin! by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health Word is Joplin has zero ostomy supplies. I know that when I became an ostomate, I got TONS of free supplies from the big companies that are just sitting around. If you hav ... Read on »

Take down in 10 days!!!! by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health Hey ya’ll. There is a lot of update on so bear with me. As a lot of you know, I was traveling to Cleveland Clinic to have my surgeries, and used to rave about how wonderfu ... Read on »

Updates from Surgery #2/3 by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health Hey all, Its been about 6 weeks since my surgery…and this one…of course didn’t work out 100% awesome like I wanted it to. The surgery went ok, I got my pouch but he didn ... Read on »

8 Days from Surgery by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health So I’ve got 8 days until we try to redo my step 2, which is now technically step 3 of 4….its complicated. But in anticipation, I’ve created this facebook page. Enjoy. ... Read on »

Belladonna Wars? by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health Hey, guys. Long time no blog. So, here’s the scoop-I’ve been doing a lot better since my visit with pouch guru Dr. Bo Shen back in November. He diagnosed me with effere ... Read on »

Cleveland Clinic, Day 1 by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health Dr. Bo Shen Well, I finally made the pilgrimage back to Cleveland Clinic (CC) to see the famed “King of Pouches”, Dr. Bo Shen. As one involved in the J-pouch/IBD ... Read on »

J-Pouch Jesus by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health So, I feel a bit like I’ve been raping the Jpouch.net homepage lately. In my defense, there’s been a lot going on and I’m under the impression that you guys are fascinat ... Read on »

Fear Monger, MD by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health Hi, guys! So, I’m still alive. I thought I would give you a brief update about how things are going with lupus. It pretty much sucks. It’s not like I’m not used to pai ... Read on »

Body, You Suck. by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health Today is on e of the days I hate my body. It is just not working with me! The good news is, we got to Dallas safely and without too much hassle. Thanks to a two-week d ... Read on »

“Ch-ch-ch-changes” by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health I think that’s how the song went…Anyway. Lots of those happening here! First off, I decided at the suggestion of my surgeon to apply for disability. My, there’s a lot o ... Read on »

I suck at being sick by Megan and Mark H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Digestive Health Omg you guys, I’m dying. Ok I’m not dying its a tad dramatic but I’m not recovery very gracefully. First of all, you should go read about my disaster of a surgery #2 . ... Read on »

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