The Ultimate Guide to Flying with TPN Series Part 4: Making the Most of Your Trip
Swimming with central lines, amusement park accommodations, favorite travel products, and more!
Vomit: My Life with Chronic Intestinal Pseudo Obstruction
There’s a lot of shame that goes into that. Leaving it there.
I left a big plastic bowl of vomit in a parking lot. What a life. But that is my life. The part of my life that doesn’t get shared on Instagram or in the posts on this website. It’s just my real, disgusting, difficult day-to-day.
Sadly that bowl of puke wasn’t the lowest point of my year and not near as difficult of a day as most of the days I’ve had...
TPN Backpacks Part 2
Vibedration specializes in making hydration packs that are geared towards music festival lovers but they also work very well for the TPN consumer.
The backpacks come on a variety of shapes and sizes ranging from...
TPN Backpacks Part 1
If you’re on TPN a good backpack is essential if you don’t want to be stuck wearing a backpack that weighs you down, hurts your back, is awkward to wear, and doesn’t work for your lifestyle. This is especially important for those who infuse their TPN...
What Is TPN: Living on Intravenous Nutrition
TPN is short for Total Parenteral (pah-REN-tur-uhl) Nutrition. It is a way of getting nutrition intravenously bypassing the digestive system...
The Ultimate Guide to Flying with TPN Series Part 3: What Happens at the Airport?
It’s the big day! You’ve planned, you’ve prepped, and you’ve packed and now it’s time for your trip to begin.
When I arrive at the airport the first place I head to is curbside check in. I take my 2 carry-on suitcases onto the plane with me but I also have another suitcase that contains my clothes and all of my other non-medical things and I always check it at the curb so that...
The Ultimate Guide to Flying with TPN Series Part 2: How to Pack
Instead of throwing everything loosely into my luggage and then digging through it every day of my vacation to find what I need, I make TPN “kits.” I put everything that I need for one infusion into...
The Ultimate Guide to Flying with TPN Series Part 1: Plan and Prep
In the past decade I’ve flown many times with TPN and have learned so much about it along the way that I’ve got my method...
Rational Thoughts About My Perianal Abscess
All joking aside having an abscess is an awful thing to deal with. I try to joke a bit and maintain my alarmingly great sense of humor but not only are they gross but they are extremely painful. Severe pain that interrupts sleep and makes wearing clothes, walking, sitting, and so forth a real struggle. It’s incredible how painful they are. The last time I had one...