Arg

Still tummy troubled. Not getting better. Also can't get rid of this stupid cold. If the immunosuppressants don't work on my tummy then they sure shouldn't work to keep a cold lingering for more than a month!

Double

Double the blood
Double the fun
Menstruation and flare
All in one!

Custom Toilet Paper

You know you want to give it a go. Will it be the next hot wedding accessory? Housewarming TP job? Print the newlyweds faces on it prior to decorating the car...or do you have more of a statement to make with it? In any case, you can order it at printedtp.com

In other news, flaring bad. At least 15 trips to the bathroom during work. At least when flaring this bad-the trips are quick. Often the hand washing takes longer than the other part. I got a cold last week and it has been downhill since. Crohn's rots.

Tummy Trump Cards

These come from the list of top 20 comic weapons. Who knew?
The Dung Cannon-ok this one seems more like a Neopet weapon with more violence:

Dung’s Dual Poop Cannons - Savage Dragon

One of the many throwaway villains that graced the pages of Savage Dragon, Dung is about as static as a character can be. He is a walking poop joke, armed (literally) with two sewage cannons. Where all that crap comes from remains a mystery, but the fact remains that Dung has one of the greatest weapons in comic history.

This next one-true evil-yet appealling in a wanna know what tummy troubles are like? Let me just show you...sort of way. The Bowel Disrupter:

The Bowel Disruptor – Transmetropolitan

Spider Jerusalem’s weapon of choice, even beating out a good old-fashioned boot to the groin. The Bowel Disruptor does pretty much exactly what it sounds like it would with settings that include:

Watery
Loose
Prolapse
Shat Into Unconsciousness
Unspeakable Gut Horror
Rectal Volcano
And last but certainly not least, Burning Anal Geyser.

Tempting isn't it?

Too bad I don't have it in me to be a comic book evil villain. darn it. I think I got zapped by one though.

Happy Colorectal Month

Happy Colorectal Month everyone. How is yours doing? Do you know? No? Then go get screened!

London with Tummy Troubles

Well, I did it. I went on a lonnnnnnnnnnnng plane trip and stayed in a foreign country-took the lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggerrrrrrrrrr trip home and survived...with crohn's. I even drank the water a couple of times.

Here is the update on London toilets: not bad. Hard to find in places, sometimes key places. But, I survived with no mishaps. (better than my trip last year to PA where there was one)

Places and foods to eat that are relatively safe also easy to find. (one unfortunate meal in Oxford set off an afternoon of bathroom trips-of the run and wish for really good toilet paper sort and also the sort where you wonder whether it is worth it to actually leave the bathroom.) shrug...so not really bad.

The rest of the trip was my normal good and bad mix. I did ok for the most part by being really careful about food choices but overtiredness and such caused problems (ok such=my period which is never tummy friendly)

Plane wasn't bad even though I had tummy troubles on the way home. I swear they let you use the toilets sooner and later on the long distance flight.

Now that I am home though...ugh. I think my body decided that it can fall apart. We had to stop several times on the way from the airport to the house and I am becoming intimately reacquainted with the bathrooms at work and home. sigh.

Only other tummy trouble comment is FOOD SMELLS and PEOPLE SMELLS. If your tummy troubles are aggravated by such things-prepare ahead. One museum smelled like a crockpot starting at about 10:30. Perfumes, colognes, cigarette smoke and people sweat/wet smells are omnipresent at the museums and on transportation as well as at any shop or restaurant. (speaking of the more lung aggravating of the smells-note that you can't get a primatene or similar inhaler from a drugstore there, so don't leave yours at home.)