I have a friend with ulcerative colitis who I met about a year and a half ago at Get Your Guts in Gear briefly. She came with her boyfriend to one of the camp sites in 2012 with her two dogs; one of which looked like a male version of my dog Holli. I have […]
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“Friendship isn’t a big thing, it is a million little things.”
Today I want to write about the few days I spent with some of the most amazing girls a couple of weeks ago following the weekend of Get Your Guts in Gear. Last year at the event, I barely made it to the end so the idea of having two friends stay over with me […]
What My Dad Riding in Get Your Guts in Gear Meant To Me
I briefly mentioned in this post here Thank You Dad about much it meant to have my dad with me as I participated in my second year of Get Your Guts in Gear. For those of you who have never heard of the event before, GYGIG is a non profit organization that holds two multi […]
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Before I left to participate in my second year of crewing Get Your Guts in Gear, I wrote about how much this event changed me last year. I talked about how I was welcomed with open arms into a community, or a family actually, filled with some of the most amazingly inspiring and warm people […]
Guest Blog Post for TGBM
I feel honored to have been given the opportunity to write a guest blog post for The Great Bowel Movement about what it was like for me to open up about my IBD and finally embrace my community. As many of you know it has been a long process for me and I really cannot […]