About To Live My Best Life, But First... Infusions! [PART TWO]Part one of this post can be found here. I saw the IBD specialist. It was a journey. Between insurance mix-ups and...reactionscomments
About To Live My Best Life, But First... Infusions! [PART ONE]Lately, I’ve really been feeling the need for change. Not just lately. It actually started a while ago. I’ve spent much of...reactionscomments
Things That Annoy Me As A PatientAfter being a patient for more than 15 years, there’s a lot I’ve observed - good and bad. More recently, I’ve been...reactions3comments
Do you wait for the other shoe to drop too?Life is not always smooth sailing. Some days I wondered what I did in a past life to deserve this one or...reactionscomments
Preparing to Become a Mother with Crohn's Disease - Part 1In my last post, We Have to Plan to Plan - Life & Routine with IBD, I talked about how my Type...reactions14comments
Preparing to Become a Mother with Crohn's Disease - Part 2In my last post, "Preparing to Become a Mother with Crohn's Disease - Part 1", I shared several of the things that...reactionscomments
You know you've had IBD far too long when...When it comes to IBD, we're all in the same boat, but you can usually spot the difference between the newly diagnosed...reactions3comments
I Don't Know How to Tell You This, But...I don’t know how to tell you this, but… I have Crohn’s disease. I think about the times we say something like...reactionscomments
Remembering To Take Certain Medical Opinions With a Grain of Salt: Part 2If you haven't had a chance to read part 1 of this article, I highly recommend doing so before continuing on. If...reactions1comment
A Letter to MyselfDear Self, For twenty years of your life, you had an “iron stomach.” No foods bothered, you, and you were the “good eater”...reactions2comments
A Letter to my newly diagnosed self...To my newly diagnosed self (in 2013), I'm nearly six years into this Crohn's malarky now so I thought it only right...reactions1comment
7 times IBD caused me to lose my dignityHow does the saying go? Never let anyone take away your dignity? Well, that's all very well good except I'd argue that...reactions7comments
The Doctor I FiredA few years ago, I didn’t like where my care was at. I had been in and out of the hospital and...reactions1comment
Getting Through The UnplannedI wrote a few articles last year about how my mental health was affected by several long hospitalizations and how it lead...reactionscomments
When IBD Wants To Share Mother's DayEight years ago, I officially became a mother. Ten years ago, I officially became an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patient. And the...reactions2comments
Passover 2019I have to be honest- I usually don’t keep Passover. Keeping the holiday means not eating anything with yeast in it. This...reactions1comment
IBD Friendly ActivitiesFinding IBD-friendly activities can be a challenge sometimes. Over the past few years, I’ve been a lot more involved with hiking and...reactions1comment
What Others ThinkFor those people who do not have IBD, they can’t say, “I understand the feeling.” That goes for the same, when IBD patients...reactions2comments
Anxiety & Trips to the RestroomBefore I exhibited symptoms of IBD in my twenties, I had what my family classically referred to as a “nervous stomach.” As...reactions7comments
A Health UpdateI like posting health updates. I don't do it all the time, but I think it can be useful. It can be...reactions1comment
