There has been a lot of discussion in online forums recently about inflammatory bowel diseases and what illnesses actually make up this category of digestive diseases. Unfortunately, there seems to be a lot of confusion as to what is considered a form of inflammatory bowel disease and what is not. Due to that confusion, there […]
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A year later, “My Story”
A year ago, I sat down and didn’t get up until I tried to lay out the last 12yrs of my life with ulcerative colitis in an effort to stop hiding who I was with the world. I spent so long masking everything real that was going on in my life that it was burying […]
Day 3: My Most Memorable Conversation with My Doctor
I have had so many memorable conversations with my doctors over the past 12 years but one that sticks out in my mind was talking to my gastroenterologist when I was in the hospital following my first surgery. I had ulcerative colitis for two years at that point when I decided that it was time […]