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I don't really have a brand new pair of roller skates but I have that song stuck in my head.  What I do have is a brand new GI!  I found one that actually wants to try some treatment for my increasing nausea and diarrhea and he isn't telling me it is just bile salt diarrhea and leaving it at that.  He went old school and provided me with prescriptions  for Librax, Reglan, and Lomotil.  Dr. GI Dude thinks that my stomach is emptying too slowly but my bowels are working too quickly and apparently those two organs are completely separate entities and one doesn't really affect the other necessarily.  I thought everything just ran through me to fast.  But apparently things may be getting hung up in my belly causing the nausea and then the bile acid diarrhea is happening due to my having so much of the bowel removed and having no gall bladder to re route the bile back to the liver.  I've never had it explained before.  Imagine that.  So I...

Last night at work something I had always wondered about actually happened.  One of my Resident's blood sugar bottomed out (he isn't even diabetic), another Resident had fallen and I had to squad her out to the hospital, and right at that very moment those two things happened - I had to poop.  And there was no stopping it.  Life with Crohn's - shit just got real!  Literally!!! Everything got handled and I did some fine negotiating between my problems with my body and my problems with my Residents, but I have to say, it was neither fun nor exciting. NOR was it something I ever want to have happen again.  I thought the bowels were supposed to slow and be calm while the adrenaline flows?  I thought it was Fight or Flight not Fight or Fly to the Bathroom! Since I apparently will always need a constant reminder that Crohn's will forever be with me, I finally got my purple ribbon.  I love it.  Not only does the purple ribbon stand for Cro...