Anybody else forget what normal is?

[btcrv]

Hey guys,

Just wondering if anyone else has forgottenwhat normal is??? I am so used to scoping out bathrooms and going having bm's all the time that I sometimes forget most of humanity doesn't do that. The other morning, after buying my coffee in the drive-thru, I parked and went inside because nature called just that fast. Then I realized it was the 3rd time before 9am. Guess chroniness is a way of life for me now? In the old days, I avoided public toilets like the plauge.

 

[Jeff D.]

Yeah it seems I have had the same thing happen to me but once you get things under control you will be baack to the usual.

 

[DannyB]

Hey Brandi,

I found imodium was always good at reducing the amount of times I visit the loo, I get them on prescription now. I think the good thing about people is that we are adaptable to most situations we find ourselves in.

All the best

 

[Cara Fusinato]

Yes, I have forgotten what normal is like too. Adaptation is such a way of life, every so often I stop and realize that something is not normal for everyone else. I'm with you on that idea!

 

[Kossy]

What fun would life be if we we're normal? Unpredictablity is the spice of life... that and Jazz hands.

 

[harryjr]

Everyday, some days every hour, I make my own normal.

 

[kc0eks]

Normal, I really believe I have no idea what that is anymore. Almost 7 years now of this, I dont remember what it was like to feel decent, and not have to be in the bathroom a million times a day.
So, for me, normal is not feeling good and living near a bathroom. Everyone else is strange, im normal I mean, who goes to the bathroom only once a day? hah, come on, thats weak

 

[Dekar]

sometimes during the day, i feel like i dont have the disease at all. and it definetely feels good to have a glance at normal once in a while

 

[tonya_n_ky]

Normal? What's that? I know what you're sayin..I use to NEVER care where a public bathroom was, let alone use one !! I'd hold it til hell froze, lol. But now I just do the deed and go on. I've left my fiance' in the check out line to go "Here's the money, be right back" and take off running. LOL Then pray either nobody's in the bathroom with me or that there's so many that it's loud. I love crying babies sometimes, lol. I guess everyone has thier own set backs and things they have to live with, for us...it just happens to be crohn's.

 

[katiesue1506]

I love automatic toilets... because they accidentally flush a lot and that drowns out sounds... I also like vaccuum cleaners, running water, crying babies, yeah...

 

[Nancy Lee]

I love my lipstick tube size room spray...LOL.

I don't think I ever was 'normal'..mentally...I mean...
I'm not a real serious person and people like being around me
because I guess I'm half baked and love doing fun stuff.

But, as far as the Crohn's...
for those few seconds in the morning...
when you first awaken, before you open your eyes...
yes, for those few seconds then I feel normal.

 

[skeet]

My "old" normal I don't remember so well. I know I used to travel. I remember the trips and the work I did and the people I spent time with. I remember that sixty hour weeks were my norm & I'd be so wound up at the end of the occasional eight-hour day that I'd find something to do like shopping or eating out because I wasn't used to heading home so early. What I don't remember is what it was like to have "normal" bathroom routines, how to not feel nervous every time I have to leave the house, how to sit through lunch out with friends or a business meeting without fidgeting & being nervous. I don't remember what it was like to not feel like I was supporting Scott Tissue all by myself! :lol2: I don't remember those things because they haven't been normal to me for a long, long time.

My "new" normal is what I'm used to now. I have to think about every time I go to the bathroom, take a quick look at what I've produced to see if there's blood or mucas, scope out the location of the bathroom every time I enter a new place. I think about every bite I put in my mouth, read the labels on every food I buy & put back those pretty tea cookies when the label tells me they're hiding macacdamia nuts or pecans. I support Scott Tissue! :ylol2:

And you know what? That's all okay because it is normal. We're not freaks, my friends! Every person on this earth is, in some way, different from their fellows. We just happen to be special in a uniquely icky kind of way. Yeah, that's it! We're special ... and normal! Yay for us! Three cheers for icky!

 

[Nancy Lee]

Ya know what skeet?
You just said everything I was thinking..
only you said it better than I ever could.
For us this is normal!
And we are okay ...we have made a slight adjustment
in the way we live and eat.
That's all...and I think we are 'A-Okay'! :applause: