Living

As a Crohn’s or UC patient, you may have had a stay (or 100) in the hospital. I, personally, was hospitalized at least once every year from 2011-2014. While each admission...

I'm on a mission to remission. If you’ve read parts of my story before, you’ll know that it took me more than 6 years to get diagnosed with Crohn’s disease...

Living with inflammatory bowel disease takes a lot. One major thing being self-love. It takes a strong person to live with the things we do and bear the burdens we...

Each and every day for the past 13.5 years I’ve wondered. Will today be the day? Will today be the start of another flare up. No matter how long I’ve...

Recently, I wrote the post “It’s Okay to be Okay” - a significant realization I’ve come to this year in my life and my journey with Crohn’s disease. Today, I...

Last year, the unthinkable happened at my nephew’s infusion center. His biologic infusion was administered to the wrong person. The person who received his infusion was a 19-year-old female. What...

I've been having a lot of conversations with doctors recently and receiving many of those 'follow-up' letters through the post. I'm not sure if it's just an NHS thing but...

“A reminder, that the past and the presentaren’t separate from one another& that what I went through is still whati’m going through and most importantly…who I was, is who I...

Each and every month, I pay for prescriptions. I pay for prescriptions that keep me at status quo. I pay for prescriptions that keep me as regular as a Crohn’s...

You expect the toilet paper to be horrible on trips so you bring some or wipes of your own. You cringe every time your fingers go through the toilet paper...

A few weeks ago, I shared my journey of navigating the tricky first trimester of pregnancy with IBD. Now I've managed to nudge my way into the second trimester, I...

For those of us with chronic illnesses like inflammatory bowel disease, the end of the year is also the end of the insurance year for most plans. While my friends...

I waved the white flag today. Rather than try and take on my disease on my own from home, I succumbed to my symptoms and decided to call my GI...

Having Crohn’s, you have to be prepared. I always have a bag of clothes and of course toilet paper in my trunk. You never know. Nothing was going to prepare me...

Safe foods. A uniquely personal definition, an honestly life-changing concept for those in need. Nine years ago, shortly after I began experiencing symptoms of IBD, I quickly learned that there...

I have now been living with my Inflammatory Bowel Disease diagnosis for over 8 years. I've experienced active symptoms for even longer than that. It's crazy to think about everything...

We've all heard about being low in iron and perhaps B12, but actually, there are many more potential deficiencies at play with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. I've already blogged about my...

It’s been quite a few years since receiving my first biologic infusion. It wasn’t until my third infusion experience that I was informed by another patient advocate that the infusion...

As a chronic illness patient, I have to admit that I’ve often bought into the mentality that if I’m not miserable, I’m doing it wrong. Now, please, understand, that there have...

Kelly sat down with her significant other to talk about IBD and answer questions. Crohn’s disease. This is something that you know really bothers me. I know phones love to...