Most of you know that I often take pictures of washrooms.
I don't know exactly when it started, but I know that it became a thing when I was able to travel a bit.
Mostly it was because I came to learn how disgusting bathrooms can get - and so I became increasingly grateful for any relatively positive bathroom experience.
With a disease like Ulcerative Colitis and then Crohn's Disease, bathrooms wind up being a focal point of life in general.
This year I attended the annual Gutsy Walk. This year they had something different - they had rented two port-a-potties for the fundraiser!!!! Praise!!!
To be really frank, I had always wondered why they had never done this im previous years. I mean, you are bringing together anywhere from dozens to hundreds of people together in one location - and nearly all of these people suffer from bathroom-focused illnesses. Of course each person suffers differently, but intestinal inflammation is the driving force - which can obviously create some interesting scenarios, especially when your own body gives you a short time limit to GET to the washroom.
I even attended a walk in a different city that was a 5-10km walk, with only one facility at the beginning. There is no way I was even attempting that walk. I would have been (embarrassingly) perched up on a dumpster or crouching behind a tree within the first fifteen minutes - incapable of running fast enough to reach an actual bathroom.
So - yes to port-a-potties!!!! So thankful!! Hence the portapottyhug!
Should we make that a thing??
New hashtag - feel free to join in!
I was honoured to be able to provide background music for the Gutsy Walk again this year, and I loved seeing so many new faces -> except for the fact that it also means that so many new people (and really young people) have been diagnosed. I appreciate everyone who helped fundraise, who donated, but mostly to those that help get the word out about these invisible diseases that wreak havoc on the lives of SO MANY people - and whose illnesses also impact the lives of others.
It was a beautiful day and having extra washrooms available was a complete bonus.
Click here for one of the songs performed live on the day. A little Edelweiss and reminder of Christopher Plummer is never a bad thing. *wink wink*
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