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4 years after my life-changing colostomy reversal surgery

5th May 2020 By Jonelle 6 Comments

Four years ago, I was heading towards my first ever mothers day. Except, I wasn’t at home, I wasn’t with my family. I wasn’t excited. I was in hospital. Alone, in isolation, fighting off a bug that I’d picked up in ICU while recovering from my colostomy reversal surgery. It feels like such a long…

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Filed Under: Blog, Being an Ostomate, Being Resilient, That time I nearly died Tagged With: colostomy surgery, emergency surgery, ostomy, reversal surgery

What it was like being on morphine after my Ostomy surgery

6th November 2015 By Jonelle 11 Comments

My Dance With Morphine – An Induced Madness | Tyranny of Pink

A long long time ago (okay not so long ago, more like two short months ago), I had a little visit to ICU and my first experience of morphine. It wasn’t a long visit (only ten days) and nothing much can be recorded from my time there, with the exception of a little near death…

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Filed Under: That time I nearly died Tagged With: be who you are, colostomy surgery, drugged on morphine, hallucinations, hospital experience, just not that kind of control freak, morphine experience, morphine for pain, my experience with morphine, ostomy surgery, pain is killing me, why I'll never take recreational drugs

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It was a cold November day and she had dressed her It was a cold November day and she had dressed herself up in layers of cardigans and covered the whole lot with her old tweed coat, the one she might have used for feeding the chickens in.

#barbarapym #janeandprudence #qotd #quotesaboutchickens #chooks #chooksofinstagram #aliceandclementine #chickens #backyardchooks #backyardchickens
The perfect Sunday. All day on the couch. Prosec The perfect Sunday. 
All day on the couch. 
Prosecco. 
Burgers. 

Dreading Monday.
I need a holiday.... 

#summerday #wellingtonnz #prosecco #oceanview
And in the naked light, I saw Ten thousand people, And in the naked light, I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

#hellodarknessmyoldfriend #soundofsilence #disturbed #home #redandgreen #homestyling #sanseveria
Date night. Date night.
Bit my pretty red heart in two. I was ten when th Bit my pretty red heart in two.

I was ten when they buried you.   

At twenty I tried to die

And get back, back, back to you.

I thought even the bones would do.

#sylviaplath #darkpoetry #poems
It's the kind of tired that sleep can't fix. #bat It's the kind of tired that sleep can't fix. 
#bathtime #metime #whiskygram
Tiny house living. When your kitchen counter doubl Tiny house living. When your kitchen counter doubles as your office space. 

#wfh #wfhlife #workfromhome #homestyling #tinyspaces #smallhouse
All my dreams lead me to you... #sundayadventures All my dreams lead me to you... 
#sundayadventures #sundayvibes #walksinthewoods

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