Camping?
Fri, July 11, 2008 4:38 PM
OK as if camping is not unpleasant enough. Try to find campgrounds that have several bathrooms located through out the parks. Though I personally am not fond of camping my husband and children are. Untill now it has just always been no big deal a couple of times a year we all load in the car and head off to rough it in the woods for a couple of days. But my daughter was dx'd with CD 2 years ago and is currently on so many meds. Last year we chose to skip the whole camping thing because of this but she really misses it and wants to go so we agreed to take her this weekend. After much research for a good camp site with indoor plumbing we came up pretty short handed in the WV area. Though most state parks have bathrooms and outhouses. They are not scattered out in the park in enough places, which concerns us.
Joined Jul 10, 2008
Sat, August 09, 2008 12:00 AM
Reply posted for ashockey.
hi my name is kaarina. i have crohis dieseas. i was diagnosed 3 1/2 years ago. i love camping!! my family and i go twice in the summer for 4 weeks. When i was diagnosed with crohn's i went camping 4 weeks later it was hard beacause the bathrooms and outhouses we not that close. i had too run for the bath alot but it was worth it beacause i love camping so much. now i have more control but so time i have to get to the bathroom quick. i love camping.
~kaarina
Joined Dec 13, 2008
Sat, August 09, 2008 12:00 AM
Reply posted for ashockey.
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Joined Apr 24, 2008
Mon, July 21, 2008 5:03 PM
Reply posted for ashockey.
It isn't the most pleasant thing in the world, but my hubby and I actually made a toilet and camped specifically where there wasn't a lot of campers or bathrooms so I can go as often as I needed without the embarassment of people seeing me run all the time.
We hung up some tarps from trees and got a bucket and plenty of bags to line it with, and just made our own bathroom. The only thing I wish we would of done differently is added a toilet seat to it or we thought of making one out of an old folding chair and duck tape so my butt didn't hurt sitting on the bucket!
Joined Jul 24, 2008
Wed, July 16, 2008 9:14 PM
Reply posted for joymc84.
It is weird in a way because she does not have diarreah but rather issues with constipation, but when she has to go it has to be a right now kind of thing there is no waiting. Thanks for the advice on the portable pots.
Joined Jul 10, 2008
Wed, July 16, 2008 12:00 AM
Reply posted for ashockey.
my husband LOVES camping, and I have grown to like it. occasionally. when it's not too hot or cold. anyway, i have crohn's, and i find taking immodium slows things down a lot, and gives me more control over when i go. also, my husband built me a portable toliet (a wooded box with a hinged toliet seat-shaped piece of plywood on top) and i just stick a bucket underneath it. with the portable toliet, we can camp anywhere, and i still have somewhere to relieve myself.
best of luck with all this! it's hard having crohn's as an adult, and i can't imagine how tough it would be for a kid! but you're a good parent for trying to help your child have lots of fun, normal experiences, and working around all the crohns stuff!
Joined Jun 17, 2008
Mon, July 14, 2008 1:19 PM
Reply posted for ashockey.
They have portable toliets at camping stores its actually a toliet seat with a plastic bag undernieth it, so at lease you would have something close by if she had an emeregency.
Joined May 20, 2008
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