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Let me paint you a picture.     I’m sat on the 7.15am train on my way to work with a hundred other rats in the race; packed like sardines into an 8 carriage train; with poo on my stomach and there’s nothing I can do about it. I’m trying not to act weird but it’s […]

When my gastroenterologist said she needed to stick tubes down my throat and up my butt, I wasn’t exactly overjoyed. Over the years I haven’t had a good relationship with scopes. I’ve had:  1 colonoscopy; where they look at the whole colon.  Countless sigmoidoscopies. This is a mini-colonoscopy, where the doctors look at the left part […]

For those who don’t know, I’m undergoing investigation into a severe iron deficiency. For some reason my body has suddenly decided to call in a sicky and stop working as well as it was. I was seeing a haematologist for iron infusions, but he has passed me onto to my gastroenterologist for more tests to […]

Some people look at the glistening buildings of Canary Wharf, or the hustle and bustle of soho with the hope of joining the thousands of people who pace in and out each day.  And I suppose I was one of them.  From as young as I can remember going to London was pretty regular, and […]

Hi, I’m Marcus and I’m the first person on Billie’s new guest-blog-post-thing (big privilege I know). We’ve been together for just over 6 months and it’s been amazing; being with someone who’s as thoughtful, clever and brave as she is. I know she hates people calling her brave, but in my eyes she is. In […]