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It’s been a few months since I sat down with my partner & talked about my diagnosis of Crohn’s disease and living with inflammatory bowel disease and our relationship. Well...

Hi all! Wow-doesn't time fly! It doesn't seem like five minutes since I was writing my first-trimester diary and now I am sitting down to write my 3rd trimester! However, it...

When I was first diagnosed with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, I was extremely uncomfortable, mentally and physically. I'd been experiencing pain, fatigue, blood loss, blood in my stool. You know, the...

In my experience, one of the most draining elements of living with any chronic illness is the hefty weight of isolation that comes with it. Like the pain of a...

For the first time in 10 years The American College of Gastroenterology has issued updated clinical guidelines on the management of ulcerative colitis (UC). Its approach has changed from addressing...

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...

This video gives a detailed look inside the life of someone who lives with an invisible illness. I talk about the mask we wear as patients, and how much is...

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...