The sky dive takes place on Sunday 10th December 2023 (Subject to change with weather) not sure how to change it from August on the page :)

Crohn's & Colitis UK are the UK's leading charity for Crohn's and Colitis. Right now, over 500,000 people in the UK are living with a lifelong disease that many people have never heard of. I am taking part in the 2023 Crohn's & Colitis UK Skydive Day and your donation can help Crohn's & Colitis UK's mission to improve diagnosis and treatment; to fund research and raise awareness.

Well... I have officially lost the plot!! I have booked myself in for a skydive on Sunday 10th December 2023 at Auchterarder in aid of Crohns and Colitis

A charity very very close to my heart

My Diagnosis:

After years of stomach and back pains and countless trips in and out of hospital... I went to Paris for my 21st birthday in 2013 and was in agony!! I was back and forth to the doctor and then eventually in November 2016 I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis also known as bowel disease.

After many scans, X-rays, CT scans, MRI scans EVERYTHING! I was admitted with pancreatitis in June 2016 which believe me was something I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy!! But it led to other findings and helped diagnose me.

Finally I got out hospital and went to Paris.... and was in a good place.... but little did I know what this disease actually was how it could make life so difficult!

From being bed bound, sick, back pain, anaemia and resulting in me being so tired I didn't want to even open my eyes in the morning!! It had all got too much!! I couldn't control it and was so fed up of being in and out of hospital. Stress being a large issue it brought on so many relapses!!

I hated my job, I was fed up!! No energy for the gym or for even getting out of bed! I left my job and got a new one.... but before I was able to start that... I hit an all time low... not eating, not getting out of bed, being so moody, I hated who I had become. Ending a long term relationship! I didn't know how to manage everything! I had totally lost myself and ended up in hospital for a week with a relapse (which took me 2 weeks to finally call the doctor)!! My blood pressure was too low then shot up too high! Sleeping in the toilet, Temperature up in the sky! Dehydrated and just in so much pain. I wasn't me!!

One week in hospital led to 16 tablets a day, unknown amount of drips, blood tests, and hooked up on steroids!! I hated it!! 10 weeks on steroids and a new job. I wasn't happy! It was too stressful and again ended up relapsing a few months later again.

Meant to have started medicine which caused all sorts of issues "but it was okay cause over 100 people were on these". No thanks! Those words stuck in my head and hit home that I will always have this but I can control it!! I didn't want weekly blood tests and check ups, I wanted to be 25 and living my life.

Now, I've cut out mainly all my medication except my Adalimumab which is a tough drug to be on but helps keep me at bay most days, have a job I am enjoying, losing weight, happy and most of all I am in control of my ulcerative Colitis (well as much as I can be) and I have shit days don't get me wrong, I still have no energy at times and just want to do nothing at all!! But I'm nowhere near the person I was at the start of my diagnosis. I am hoping I can control it and not need to see my consultant as much as I have been either!! Now I'm living my life as much as I can.

So yeah, not many people really knew this about me or who I had been for the last few months/ years (not even me)! But there you go!

Read up on Ulcerative Colitis and hopefully you will realise just what some people go through on a daily basis. I am still learning. IBD and IBS are completely different things!

Please feel free to donate to such an amazing charity!! I am already shaking!!