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The past few nights I've laid awake in bed. Holding on tightly to my pregnancy pillow. Feeling my baby girl kick and punch her way around my abdomen, as another...

Most people who have suffered from a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) for a significant amount of time have seen countless doctors of a wide range of specialties. A...

Twenty days on life support was the result of Crohn’s. MERSA and staff infection had taken over my body in the spring of 2007, and my body could not keep...

In my last post, I talked about Securing ADA Accommodations at Large Events, and listed some of the benefits to asking for assistance when navigating events with Crohn’s disease and...

Recently, I was asked how living with an invisible illness affects my daily life. I have to be completely honest, upfront before I say anything else. My response to this...

Earlier this year, in order to avoid a colonoscopy, I participated in a non-invasive test that would provide real-time pictures of my insides. The results provided good news. Yet, it...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can be difficult to understand, let alone explain to other people. Not to mention, there tends to be a lot of confusion among the general public...

For years, I struggled to figure out what went wrong with my surgeries. Why did I spend over a year fighting for my life, while many were successful right off...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Hyrimoz for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis (PsA), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), Crohn’s disease in adults, ulcerative colitis, plaque...

You're gone. It hurts. Well mentally. It hurts mentally because you were actually the cause of my physical pain. There are days I wish I was normal. I wish you were normal...

Am I the only one who's a bit of a phone addict? Perhaps it's the fact that so much of our support for the illness can be accessed on our...

I got my PICC line about 2 months ago after several hospital stays during the month of April. Due to the only very small veins in my hands and feet...

In my last post, I talked all about how to plan a destination wedding with IBD. I realized that offering suggestions on packing for an 8-day trip was a longer conversation...

I admit I have been an extremely selfish person over my lifetime. I’m very giving, but I can also be extremely selfish at times. I realize I have a chronic...

I wasn't able to find a parking space within reasonable proximity to the front of the store. By the time we hiked from the parking space to the store, I...

Often when your Gastroenterologist orders imaging, CT scans may be the first recommended course for assessment of IBD, but according to the National Institute of Health, this is because of...

Before I begin today's post, it's important to say that this post is a personal diary of my food choices and not in any way designed to be a model...

When you live with a chronic illness like inflammatory bowel disease, so many things come up over the course of your life that you probably never would have imagined would...

As people living with chronic conditions, we tend to live with a lot more stressors than everyone else. We have the stress of managing homes, raising kids, doing chores on...

Every Fall, the “High Holidays” in Judaism is upon us. Since I practice this religion, it is a time spent in synagogue, eating with family and following the traditions of...