Guys Have Pouches Too
While I may be willing to spill my guts out onto this blog to help j-pouchers of the world, the one thing I really can’t do is speak from a male perspective. So Internet, I present to you Guy J. Pouch. Don’t worry about who he is, (I do promise you that he is in fact, a he and not just me) but please feel free to ask him your man questions. About man stuff. Like being a man. And stuff.
Blood, Poop, and Tears is a great blog, but you know what it’s missing? A MALE point of view. So Guy J. Pouch is here to fix that.
Are you ready talk IBD and pouch with a fellow bro? Good, so am I; and over the next few weeks, we’re going to shoot the shit (see what I did there?). Heck, maybe we’ll make this a regular thing.
However, it’s a known fact that guys are lazy, and I’m no exception; so I need ideas on what you guys (and gals) want to see from the male point of view. Drop me a line at guyjpouch@bloodpooptears.com, or you’ll be subjected to posts about boring things, like sports and hot women. Speaking of hot women, maybe I’ll start a IBD hottie of the week. Any volunteers? 
But all kidding aside, this is your opportunity to have your UC/IBD/surgery/ostomy/J Pouch/rubber ducky questions answered with a fresh take.
So hit me up, and let’s talk poop (or why the Steelers suck).
GJP
May 2nd, 2012 at 11:31 am
I’m a male and have a ileostomy (that will become permanent with surgery on Monday) and I’d be in with some of the questions. Guys have many of the same concerns that I read about on the (mostly) female blogs. Body image issues, intimacy, etc.
BTW-I’m all for the IBD Hotties…you, Charis, Jess, Maggie, Sara all qualify in my book!
May 2nd, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Hey Aaron!
I really hope that you use GJP! I don’t think the men of this community have a lot of great go-to people so hopefully he can fill a void! As for IBD hotties….we’ll see! GJP and I are still working out the details of this marriage!!
May 3rd, 2012 at 3:42 am
I am a girl, but I concur, the male perspective is needed. Also I completely lost my self confidence while being very sick. Now, that I have joined the jpouch club, I am getting it back, so I volunteer to send in my pic for the IBD hottie of the week idea. There are lot’s of IBD hotties, male and female. I think that we all go through feeling insecure especially with a disease like IBD. So let’s shower each other with compliments and boost each other’s self esteem, or at least make each other smile! Let’s face it, it’s human nature to be vain, and we all like to feel like we are attractive, and that other’s find us attractive.
May 3rd, 2012 at 3:50 am
One final thought, I think the pictures should be of us showing surgery scars, ostomies, ect. if the volunteers are comfortable with that. We need to promote feeling proud of ourselves, and what we have been through. I have spent the whole time hiding, and being petrified of anyone knowing what I went through.
May 3rd, 2012 at 8:53 am
All good thoughts and ideas; YET my inbox is still empty… PROBLEM!
May 17th, 2012 at 11:04 pm
Aaron,
I have had a j-pouch since 2005, and now recently diagnosed with Crohn’s.
Jackie I will be sending you an email on my perspective and I also have some questions on starting an IBD blog as I’d like to get one going from the male perspective and also helping out people up here in Canada.
May 18th, 2012 at 12:54 pm
Hey Miles. Feel free to send me a message, I’ll be happy to give you any tips that I can! I am often talking about how I wish there was guy who would step up and take over the male perspective on all of this. There just hasn’t really been one yet.