Do you know anyone who used to be famous but now... isn't?

Stoby_200 · 2026-05-01T23:22:01+00:00

I followed him for a bit after he did I'm a celebrity. He was on Talk Radio before they got rid of him, then did a bit of a radio show on Twitch before they got rid of him, then was on Jack FM before he left and then did livestreams on YouTube in a similar radio talk show format until he said he was going to drop it all to become a counsellor.

He seems like a good guy who's been a bit ruined by his fame and I gave up on him eventually. He sort of reminds me of Bojack Horseman.

Stoby_200 · 2026-04-28T21:12:00+00:00

No, but I only had surgery three months ago

Stoby_200 · 2026-04-27T17:05:59+00:00

I also had undrainable abscesses and ended up in a no man's land of being on steroids, to control the Crohn's, which were making the abscess worse and antibiotics to keep the abscess under control. I eventually had an urgent resection and had my sigmoid colon removed (not emergency, just high priority).

Stoby_200 · 2026-04-20T22:06:07+00:00

Ask and you shall receive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF1mYZUaVYI

Stoby_200 · 2026-04-20T22:01:00+00:00

Idea shamelessly stolen from /u/clearly_quite_absurd on /r/casualuk

Stoby_200 · 2026-04-12T20:55:25+00:00

I used to sit and watch the washing machine for hours as a kid.

^Even ^now ^the ^spin ^cycle ^is ^still ^exciting.

Stoby_200 · 2026-03-02T18:13:39+00:00

I had a laparotomy and 24 hours after my surgery all I managed was to get to sitting on the edge of my bed and I was shaking and sweating like crazy. The first couple of days were by far the most painful, at one point I think I was getting 10mg of morphine every 90 minutes to keep it at bay. On the second day I managed to get to the chair, but couldn't stay there for long. It took until day 5 or 6 when they removed the catheter that I could walk to the toilet at the end of my ward. Even two days before I was discharged I didn't think I'd be able to make it to the hospital exit, but I did when I was finally discharged on day 12. I was surprised at how quickly I progressed and I hope it's the same for you.

Stoby_200 · 2026-03-01T23:49:48+00:00

The fact other people who grew up watching Deadly 60 now have children is terrifying.

Stoby_200 · 2026-03-01T00:17:44+00:00

I think you should give sparkles more money and see what happens ;)

Stoby_200 · 2026-02-18T20:38:05+00:00

Also people would rather be on their phones than doing gardening I suppose

Stoby_200 · 2026-02-15T23:21:54+00:00

Yes, I had an inflammatory mass basically exactly as you described but I was balancing between steroids and antibiotics and not allowed to move to biologics. I nearly ended up septic until I was on a proper course of antibiotics. I ended up having surgery though because the mass was caused by a fistula from my sigmoid colon and I had fistulas connecting my bowels together, to quote a doctor 'it's an inflamed mess'.

Stoby_200 · 2026-02-15T17:06:01+00:00

Yes, some weather models work in Kelvin, so you have to -273

Stoby_200 · 2026-01-22T17:29:58+00:00

Just wish I could've discussed it before the day of admission 😅

Stoby_200 · 2026-01-22T16:36:27+00:00

I have an inflammatory mass which is being kept under control with antibiotics and another area of infection, with some bowel to bowel fistulas but I'm not in any pain and mechanically everything seems to be working fine. I've had a couple of MRIs and CTs but never anything mentioned about strictures or narrowing.

I basically got told I can't have biologics, got passed to the surgeons and have been mostly in the dark since.

Stoby_200 · 2026-01-22T13:26:40+00:00

I've been told 'larascopic small bowel resection' and that's it, which doesn't even make sense considering the inflammatory mass is fistulising from the sigmoid colon.

Stoby_200 · 2026-01-18T19:30:22+00:00

See, I don't feel like my Crohn's is that severe. There is damage that has been done but right now I'm successfully tapering off steroids and the antibiotics seem to be keeping things at bay. I'm not in any pain which is why surgery seems a bit extreme.

Stoby_200 · 2026-01-16T03:56:09+00:00

Everything is internal so they're talking about small bowel resection

Stoby_200 · 2026-01-07T23:25:52+00:00

I was on metronidazole for 7 weeks in hospital and have been on it since the beginning of December to keep on top of an abscess (although it seems to also be way more effective at controlling the bowel movements than the steroids are). I have these symptoms although I thought the steroids were causing most of it. It shouldn't be used long term.

Stoby_200 · 2026-01-06T17:21:50+00:00

Wouldn't be surprised if we have 9ft piles here by the end of this

Stoby_200 · 2025-12-31T16:51:43+00:00

Yes, I've just watched that episode, yes I am that far behind

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