The IBDST Support team
For over 3 years, one individual in Canada with many sub personalities has counted on IBD Support Team for all their in house care services. IBD Support Team (IBDST) is a unique, non-profit home care organization that provides semi-professional nursing, social work, cooking, listening, cleaning and other supportive services, free of charge (not including room and board and gratuities and occasional gestures of love), to IBD patients named Steven and their extended families living in Ontario Canada.Who We Serve
Anyone with a primary diagnosis of IBD, who resides in Toronto, Ontario and who is eligible for the services of IBDST who is named Steven. Patients are required to have good humour most of the time and not to binge on junk food when they are depressed. Family members of eligible patients can also receive support services as long as they commit to not being too annoying or repeating themselves excessively.
IBDST is a tax-exempt private charity under Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code which takes donations from anyone who wants to give a donation.
Please meet the team that provides 24x7 care and supervision to your friendly neighbourhood blogger.
EGB: Chief Listener to complaints, Chef, Advisor, Shopper, Housekeeper, Buddy and Person who walks and feeds Support Staff
With a big heart and smiling face EGB tackles the toughest duties and keeps Team Steven on mission.
Support Staff: Entertainment crew since we cut cable to save $
Baby S. Bird provides shrieking and foot pecking services to make sure the staff stays alert and on their toes at all times. She also is an aspiring mobile trapeze artist as seen in this video clip.
Nighttime services: Bed warmer and prednisone cravings assistance
Mousey R.H. Malone provides bed warming services. Her clinical interests include assisting in food finding missions when the Prednisone cravings hit late at night.
Even the most dedicated workers need to unwind. Mousey is an accomplished shopping-cart-rider, skateboarder and playground-slider.
Spiritual Advisor
In matters of unconditional love, Smokey Pokey is our spiritual guide teaching us how to accept and love all creatures. Sadly she left us in November 2007 but her teachings and legacy remain in our hearts forever.
Technical Services - Gas-Xpeditor:
Pitzi's job is to jump on distended colons to help expedite gas removal. She is a 3 year old Rottweiller-Daschund mix who is specially trained in the art of empty food bowl kicking and urinating on indoor carpets and floors.
Magazines, 24x7 advice, Costco Foods and Flea Market Excess Cargo Delivery Service (aka parents)
Weekly bushels of bargain priced potatoes, berries and peanuts purchased at the local farmers markets are delivered with extra bonuses of unlimited advice and questions. Sunday deliveries are typical so stay off the roads at this time if you are in the Greater Toronto Area.
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It doesn't matter to her whether I'm awake or asleep as long as she can see me. Sometimes she'll talk to me and scream my name or "I LOVE YOU!" out of nowhere. And she'll stay with me for hours on end before heading back to her main perch for some grub. Of course if I didn't leave good food for her I'll be called a Mother-#*($# first. But that's understandable. Overall, what a great supporter! I now have to figure out how to sneak her into the hospital to stay beside me for 7 days. 
