Leona's Life

My name is Leona I am a 29 year old who was diagnosed with Crohn's at age 11. I had my 1st Ostomy at age 20 & have been battling with dysphagia since 2008. I am a cat owner, equestrian, girly girl, tomboy, nerd,...

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Hello there everyone and welcome to my new blog. Some of you may know me from my other blog Leona's Crohn's Life where I post entries on wha...

My new blog Crohn's, Dysphagia and ostomies is now live.

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So ever since I had my 5 day bleed from my problem wound the recurring shoulder pain that I have has been getting progressively worse for ov...

I have just posted a new Leona's Crohn's Life blog post.

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Me: Pain doesn't even bother me anymore. C'mon, I can take it!

My body: I'm sorry; what was that?

Me: *suddenly in tears and curled up on the floor* Yep, no problem at all.

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Inside the Mind of a Chronically Ill Person Debating If They Should Post on Facebook

"When you see this chronically ill person prolifically posting… know that this did not happen overnight."

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Last Night The BBC's Holby City Got It Wrong

Imagine the situation... you are waiting to have a colostomy and you tune into last night's episode of Holby City. Just like the patient in the episode, ...

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Well what can I say it was a disastrous day. Today I was suppose to have a dentist appointment because my top set of false teeth (dentures...

NEW LEONA’S CROHN’S LIFE BLOG POST

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🏥 PAINFUL SURGERY RECOVERY! 😬 (4.20.17)

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🏥 J-TUBE SURGERY | FEEDING TUBE PLACEMENT 🏥 (4.19.17)

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🏥 THE BEST HOSPITAL ROOM! 🎉 (4.18.17)

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Were have I been?

Well hello there my beautiful fellow warrior’s sorry that I haven’t been around for a little bit but I ran into a bit of trouble with my narrow oesophagus and ended up needing to go into hospital to get things sorted. I will be writing blog posts detailing what happened before and when I was in hospital, on my leonascrohnslife.blogspot.co.uk so keep your eyes peeled for those.

Now thankfully I seem to be doing better so normal service should be resumed  on this tumblr. I hope you are all doing okay at the moment, if your not I am sending you gentle hugs.

One final thing before I go if you have any questions you would like to ask then feel free to do so. 

Until next time remember to stay strong and positive. :) xx

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Losing my best friend, October/November 2016

Well, well it's been a a while and so much has happened since October last year. Life has gone from losing my best friend (my cat), strug...

NEW LEONA'S CROHN'S LIFE BLOG POST. Sorry that is has been so long but I needed to take a break.

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Back to being on the crap again got no choice as I can't eat or drink still.

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Day 4

4 days since getting a piece of food lodged in my oesophagus.

I think it has moved because I don't really feel it anymore but I am still not able to eat and drink so I think that the irritation from the piece of food has cause my oesophagus to swell shut. if it just swollen it should have gone down in a couple of days.

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Day 3

So it’s day 3 of having a piece of food lodged in my oesophagus.

This whole having a piece of food stuck in my oesophagus is really making me feel depressed and not to mention weak from lack of food, I really do hate this life sometimes.

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Stunning model whose life was turned upside down by Crohn's disease speaks out

'I don't want people to suffer in silence because the only thing worse than having this debilitating disease is dealing with it alone.'

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Prednisone: The Devil’s Tic Tacs

Prednisone… The Devil’s Tic Tacs. The all day, all night, rage inducing, can’t sleep so you can go insane, vein thinning, muscle and bone and sight deteriorating, anti-inflammatory medicine. Predni…

Couldn’t agree the more they are definitely the devil’s tic tacs

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When People Assume Your Mental Illness Is Just 'How You Are'

"Do I really have anxiety? Am I really depressed? Maybe this is just…me."

Seeing as I have been really struggling with depression at the moment I thought I would share this with you.