We all have hopes for the future – what we want to achieve, what kind of house we want to live in, whether we want to be married or have children or live as a hermit in Peru.
I don’t really remember when I stopped having normal ambitions, but they’ve definitely gone.
My ambition in life is to be able to go to the toilet a) without pain b) on a somewhat regular basis (not too much, not too little) and c) without having to structure every last part of my life around this one lofty, unreachable, unimaginably heavenly ambition.
You can keep your houses and your cars and your husbands and your children, your money and your fame and your success. I just want a working bowel.
But I’ve probably set my sights far, far too high.
Right now I’m really worried about how I’m going to juggle work and IBS. I left my old job in the spring (due to other reasons) but now I’m job-searching again and there are so many things I feel I couldn’t do because of the constant need to be near a bathroom.
It is 1:50 am where I am. I can’t go to sleep because I feel that I need to try to go to the bathroom again. this would be my 5th time today. This really sucks. I haven’t been diagnosed with IBS, but after reading all this material about symptoms, I feel like I am reading something I would have written. I, too, would like to envision a life where I don’t have to worry about going on vacation or sleeping at friends’ homes. They just would not understand that I need my own private bathroom and that I take a really long time to go. Most of the time, I can’t even go. So what the heck has she been doing in there all this time? We all need support and hope we can keep in touch!
When we built our house, i made my husband put 3 loos in it – its my toilet haven!
My one dream – more than winning lotto is to hve a normal bowel.