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 Patient...After 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 1...In 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 2...In 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
This helped me with my fistulas...I had a doctor that learned under Dr. Crohn himself. His name was Dr. Ross & he called it "the Ross bikini"...reactions2comments
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
Guided Meditation...Meditation has been shown to have multiple benefits on a person’s health, both physical and emotional. Regular meditation can help relieve pain...reactionscomments
Remembering To Take Certain Medical Opinions With a Grain of Salt: Part 2...If you haven't had a chance to read part 1 of this article, I highly recommend doing so before continuing on. If...reactions1comment
Living With IBD: A Podcast Interview with Natalie Hayden...I recently interviewed InflammatoryBowelDisease.net advocate Natalie Hayden for the Health Union podcast, Living With. Natalie talks about her diagnosis and how her...reactionscomments
A Letter to Myself...Dear Self, For twenty years of your life, you had an “iron stomach.” No foods bothered, you, and you were the “good eater”...reactions2comments
Sharing My Story on World IBD Day...As someone who works in film, I know full well that every good story has a beginning, middle, and end. The thing...reactions3comments
About 1 Year with UC...I was diagnosed with UC a month or two before my 16th birthday. I’m now 18 and entirely unable to get control...reactions4comments
42 year IBD veteran but still frustrated...Diagnosed at 20 with Crohn's, board member of a local CCFA chapter, led support groups, etc. I got my ileostomy in 1992...reactions4comments
A childhood of illness...My story starts the summer before my freshman year of high school. I ended up going to the first day and then...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
Diagnosis and Stress...I have been following some IBD accounts on Twitter and find many of the articles extremely interesting and helpful. My own IBD...reactions3comments
All sh*ts!! No giggles!!...I’ve asked myself why do I want to start a blog? Why put yourself, your life and embarrassing bits out there? Well...reactions4comments
