Mid Life Crohn's

 So after almost two weeks on the 25mg of Mercaptopurine, I was having incredible headaches and nausea and what a bonus the insomnia was worse than usual. I made an appointment with my GP at 3am in the morning out of desperation, however surprisingly I woke up kind of ok. The Panadiene had taken the edge off.  I really thought I could manage to go to work and so switched my appointment to 3.30pm.  This brings me to what I do for work. I am a Equine Hoof Care Professional. Basically I am a farrier who doesn't nail on shoes to the hooves of the horses in my care. I can glue them on (yes that is a thing) but generally my description most closely resembles podiatherapy for horses. I love what I do, although it has been taxing these last few months with what was then an undiagnosed health issue, but for the most part I can't imagine going back to doing anything else in the mainstream world. So lets appreciate how someone with Crohn's can come into all sorts of trouble doing th...

 Well here I am. 47 years old in the year 2020. Right now it is obvious to the world that this particular year will forever be known as the collective months of dumpster fire events that started with the most wide spread and destructive fires beautiful Australia has ever seen. We thought that was the worst of it, but the smoke cleared and February saw the little virus in Wuhan, China, take a grip and quickly escalate into a pandemic.  As of right now, 7th of December 2020 (Australian time), close to 68.5 million people have been infected and 1.5 million have died. This is something we need to keep in perspective as it is not over, even with a vaccine being imminent.  So what did 2020 deliver for me personally? Well in January I believed that I had picked up a bug on the island of Gili Air in Lombok, Indonesia. My husband recovered from the gruelling vomiting and frequent toilet "runs",  but after several weeks I hadn't. Thus started the hunt for answers to what ever ...