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Surgery #1

So, no later than around 3 weeks after my diagnosis I ended up with my first Crohns surgery.  It all started the night of my work's Christmas party.  I had been on the steroids religiously since leaving hospital, but this day, something just was not right.  The night began with getting all glammed up, trying to cover the huge black bags under my eyes with mounds of concealer and painting my face. I made the decision to not drink, which disappointed me, as after recent events, all I wanted to do was let my hair down, plus we had drinks vouchers! It was one of those shared parties, the ones where different companies all come together, and funnily enough my mum was there with her work too.  Anyway. The food arrived, Christmas Lunch of course, and I just could not stop eating. Seriously! I ate my colleagues leftovers. Let me assure you, I barely finished a meal before going on the steroids, and at this point, nothing could stop me. Dessert came and went, and the party started
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My Crohns Diagnosis.

I was 24. Recently moved in to a new house with my boyfriend, planning holidays, and life in general. Work was going well, life was great. That whole year I had not felt 100%, for the first 6 months I felt extremely tired, and not in the sense that I had not been getting enough sleep, or had been up all night long! This was a new level of tired. Zombie mode. So I decided to see a doctor, and pushed for a blood test, in the back of my mind i thought i was diabetic, and that it was related to blood sugar? This continued until around August time, the results were always OK. So I stopped going, even though I still did not feel right. October came around. New Symptoms. Stomach bug? Lasting about 3 weeks? Surely not. That is the only way that I could describe how I was feeling. I felt sick, my appetite was reduced, no energy, feeling tired and vomiting. So towards the middle of November I went back to the doctor, who proceeded to tell me there was nothing wr
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