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The J-Pouch Explained in Plain English.

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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Bowel Disease in the Internet Age

We had so much fun filming this video for Nature Outlook’s focus on Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
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