A quick health update

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to apologise for my health getting in the way of recording new content again. I’m still doing my best to get back on my feet but it’s taking time, certainly a lot longer than I had hoped. I do want to be honest with you at every step, you’re here to support me and I want to make sure I give back as much as I can, so I’ll always make sure there’s something to add for you but the last couple of months have made it impossible to film new vids. 

To give you a brief overview I was put on a strong course of steroids to try to bring the Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis into remission. They had their own side effects, and when I tapered off them as instructed all the autoimmune conditions I have flared at once, including the ones I’d managed to control to a degree for almost the last 3 years. On top of that, when I came of the steroids I just didn’t want any foods any more. I was still ravenously hungry but no foods sounded or tasted good. I’m still struggling with that now and have found that I’m doing better with lots and lots of snacks all the time instead of big meals. Everything I was enjoying I’m just completely turned off, and I’m definitely one of those people who will gag and vomit if I try to force something I don’t like! I lost some weight while I was struggling most with food but I’m back to 12 stone 12 pounds now. Still not where I want to be though.

The pain in my stomach has been unbearable in the last few days as well. I had a couple of really good days back to back at the start of last week for the first time since early September and then things got bad by the end of the week. I’m unable to know from one day to the next how things will be and that frustrates me more than anything. 

It’s also impacting how much I’m able to do or to communicate, and I apologise for the fact I haven’t been able to reply to messages recently. I have a few I need to answer and will try to catch up before the end of the month. You’ve all been so incredibly kind since I came back to the community and my heart has been incredibly warmed by all of your kind words and messages, especially since this year has been so rough. I’m still fighting, I’m sure you all know that, and being well I am hoping I can finally record those new videos later this week, but in the meanwhile I still have older content to share as well as some writing I’ve been going through and real experience stories to tell as well.

Thank you all for being here 🥰