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Hi all, Since being diagnosed and on the various meds -hydrox and mtx- I've had a lot of dodgy bowel symptoms which I have no intention of describing  My GP kept changing my stomach protector which would help a bit. Now I am having a barium enema, just to make sure it is only the meds. What fun. However, I have decided to look for the silver lining. I get 2 days off work (It all happens tomorrow) So today I got a lie in in my cosy bed while everyone else wrapped up and went out into the freezing weather (I can't say the snow because I think we are the only place in Britain without any!) I've been on a limited low residue diet for 2 days which has given the pre-Xmas diet a kick-start. Today and tomorrow I can only have clear liquids so no worries about calorie counting there. I have just finished cutting up all last years cards to make labels - always makes me feel Christmassy. By this evening I will have done all my Xmas letters. And I am going to play with my watercolours. So, in one way, not much fun, but from another view point I have a good day planned. Think psoitive folks  Sue
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Oops -Spelling Susan!! positive Sue
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Good for yooouuuu Sue! How do you make the Christmas Cards into tags? Do they look professional? Enjoy your B.E!  Angie Be yourself - everyone else is taken. XX
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Hi Angie I have some zigzag scissors which used to belong to the kids in their younger days - a bit like pinking shears. I cut out shapes and they look bright and colourful - professional? hard to say. However, they satisfy my recycler heart. Sue
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Hi Sue,
No snow here either just interesting ice scuplutres in my pond! Enjoy the evacuation procedure its quite interesting in a funny sort of way and I found just that help with what turned out to be IBS, take along a really nice sandwich for afterwards and some lovely chocolate or your favourite thing, its a real treat after a couple of days of strange food!
Good luck and I wish I was anywhere near as organised about Xmas as you!
Sara
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Sounds good to me, I love recycling. Will have to get the special scissors before next Christmas. Maybe I will ask for them as a pressie... Angie Be yourself - everyone else is taken. XX
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good for you sue. hope the ITV cameras up the whatsit dont make your eyes water...    I LOVE making things xx how to be a velvet bulldoser
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good for you sue. hope the ITV cameras up the whatsit dont make your eyes water... I LOVE making things xx how to be a velvet bulldoser
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Thanks all. I had it done about 5 years age so I know what to expect. It is more undignified than anything . My children were bemused by my comments about how interesting it was seeing my insides on the computer screen. Afterwards its a baked potato and cheese in the hospital cafe (surprising good there) and then I'm meeting my daughter (who works at the hospital )and we are going late night shopping which will be fun. Keep warm all Sue
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Hello Sue
Just a quick note to wish you luck for tomorrow. Hope all goes well and
you eventually get good results.
Enjoy tea and shopping with your Daughter.
We had a covering of snow here in Somerset yesterday but nothing today, but it
is freezing (i washed two towels and they are frozen on the line) ha ha
Rose
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Hi Sue, I do hope all goes well for you, things like that are not pleasant but are needed just the same. You sound really positive and organised, good for you. It has given you something to focus on and a couple of days off work, enjoy your time off and shopping with your daughter. Take care Lorna x 
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Hi Sue - hope all goes really well tomorrow and you enjoy Christmas shopping with your daughter.
Love Jeanxx
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Hi Sue
Good luck for tomorrow hope you get good results.. Keep warm shopping!
Luv ceri xx
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Hi Sue, Best of luck for tomorrow! Kathleen x
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Hi Sue,
Hope you have enjoyed your rest day and best wishes for tomorrow.
Enjoy the shopping afterwards!
Love, Doreen xx
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Good luck for tomorrow Sue . I've had three of those over the years . I have Coeliac but they kept saying it was irritable bowel.
Kathleen Mc.
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Thanks all. Must admit it is getting a struggle to thinlk positive after a day of orange squash and black tea.  Can cope with being hungry but my head is splitting  Never mind -all over tomorrow. Sue
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Sue
Good luck for tomorrow. I had the same procedure earlier in the year. I watched all on the monitor and it was fascinating. Proper food never tasted to good afterwards.
Take care
Jackie
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Good luck Sue. Hope you get a good night's sleep and it is over quickly so you get on with the more enjoyable parts of the day XX Ailsa P.S. for the uninitiated, can you let us know what a BE involves, if that's not too personal a question?
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Found my silver lining again!! I was feeling pretty rough last night but woke up to a blanket of snow. Now I know not everyone grees with me but I grew up in Cornwall and had a snow deprived childhood. The only way we got to see snow was if we could persuade Dad to drive us up to Bodmin Moor on a snow hunt. So I'm just a big kid when it snows. I've been feeling like I was missing out when the weatherman kept saying the whole country was blanketed yet we had none. However, what timing. I needed cheering up and I'm not going to work- a win win situation. Have already been out for a play but have resisted making a snowman yet as it looks so pretty. (husband not so impressed -but he spent his formative years in Wales and the Shetland Islands) Ailsa - a BE means they need to x-ray the bowel. To do this it first has to be empty, hence restricted diet for 2 days and then major laxitives and only clear liquids for 36 hours (I've already lost 3 lbs.-so there is an up side) Then they plug you in to a tube - I'll leave that to your imagination- and fill you with a thick white liquid which has to coat the walls of the bowel so they can xray it. Last time I was on a table which they kept tilting in all directions so they could ensure the liquid went everywhere. It is a truely bizaar experience. I was able to see my insides on the computer screen which was fascinating. Sue
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