Stories

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It's 11:30 on a Friday night. 4 hours ago Clementine (my 3 year old daughter) and I were making homemade sugar cookies that looked like monsters. It was raining outside...

The year was 2011, when I was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease. I was 21 years old and had just graduated from college with a Bachelor in Fine Arts in Modern...

Hi everyone , I’m writing to everyone here ... Very briefly..; I have been diagnosed with mild proctitis in March then with chronic colitis in May 2018. My life since...

I was in the prime of my life ! On my own at 18, & renting my first apt. Started up my own business at 19 ... Guys 'n' Gals...

As someone who works in film, I know full well that every good story has a beginning, middle, and end. The thing is, though, that every chronic illness has a...

11 years ago I got diagnosed with Crohn's disease. Being undiagnosed for so many years made my Crohn's hard to treat. I began Remicade and it began to work for...

I didn’t know what was going on when I was first hospitalized. I was only 5 years old when I started feeling ill. I had different diagnoses and treatments during...

While serving on the flight deck of the USSEnterprise CVA(N) 65 in the gulf of Tonkin in 1966 and ‘67, I would have periods of serious pain in the stomach...

I first started suffering with symptoms in autumn of 1996. Puberty had hit me hard, I was 15 and carrying a bit of weight for the first time in my...

I had no idea I had Crohns until last year, at 60 yrs old, I had emergency surgery for a ruptured bowel. Had 18 inches taken out of my small...

(I am thankful for this outlet to tell my story. Like many of us, mine is long and complicated so I will be breaking it up into several parts. This...

Hi. Firstly I would like to say thank you for the add to this group. The relief of finding others who can relate to my illness . Although I don’t...

My daughter was diagnosed at age 17... while in high school. That would have been around 1997. She’s had two surgeries 2006 and 2015... and I understand this is the...

I was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease in 1977 at the age of 18, in my third week as a college freshman. Having been a terribly colicky infant (a fact my...

I have been diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis for 10 years now. Commercials, bathrooms and safety bags are just our normal. When trying to have normal relaxing Friday night and the...

At the age of 17 I gave birth to my little girl on 19th of August 2016, soon after I started to develop severe abdominal pains, frequent toilet trips. The...

My 16 year old daughter, Farrah, was recently diagnosed with Crohn's at the end of December. We were visiting Orlando, FL for two weeks and arrived on Christmas Day. Farrah...

I do not often talk about my illness to people or write it down, however I will for this Community. This is my story... I first became sick 27 years...

I was 71 years old before I got Crohn's disease. First I had a colostomy and then a year later they had to close that and do a ileostomy. Tomorrow...