I hosted an informal chat on Tuesday night for fellow IBDers with two of my friends, Sara and Jaime, and there were so many interesting things that were brought to the table that night. One thing in particular that I found interesting and a bit shocking was the fact that the majority of people who […]
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In a NY minute
My grandfather took a bad fall yesterday afternoon and suffers from severe internal bleeding and brain damage. He is lying in the ICU now being monitored but the likelihood that he is going to make it is incredibly slim and if he does he will have a very poor quality of life. I was never […]
How to Get Through the Holiday Blues with IBD
This time of year is often a wonderful time. It is a time to celebrate, a time to be with loved ones, a time to reflect on the past year. There is holiday music blasting, lights all around, lots of gifts…oh the joys of the holiday season! However, for many of us the holiday season […]
Reaction to “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother”
I wasn’t planning on writing anything else on the shootings that took place in a Connecticut elementary school or just anything on that topic but then this crossed my path (http://gawker.com/5968818/i-am-adam-lanzas-mother. I feel the need to write a response to it. I am not going to pretend what this woman, or any other parent, goes […]
Mental Illness Awareness Week
This week is mental illness awareness week and I wanted to spend a little time talking about how mental illness relates to IBD (ulcerative colitis and crohns disease). Thanks to Oak Park Behavioral Medicine, LLC for providing such amazing statistics and insights into this topic. About 25percent of people will develop a mental illness at […]