please welcome to the stage philip henry. applause. hello. ok, let's face it.re's nothing sexy about diarrhoea, is there? and as that is the main noticeable symptom of crohn‘s disease, this inflammation of the digestive tract stopped me dating for years. if you can imagine someone slipping a high—power laxative at some point every day and you and had idea what was going to go off, that's what it is like living with crohn‘s disease. and that's what it is so hard. have you ever tried to be romantic shouting through a toilet door? it's not easy. i decided to give dating another try. i want to tell you how that went. before the dark times, before the crohn‘s war began, i clocked the nakedness of her ring finger. she was single. i asked her out on a date and she said yes. numbers were exchanged. a place was agreed. time and date was set. i figured all i really needed was one good date. that would lead to a second and hopefully a third. three dates was the time to drop the crohn‘s bombshell, i figured, because up to two dates, you can bail, you have to have a good re