The Lighter Side of Medicine

I have been super sick this week... mostly still just run down from the wedding... at worst it is Mono, at best it is a regular flare-up. …

I feel shitty Oh so shitty I feel shitty, and spitty, and light And I pity Any girl who feels like me tonight La la la la la la la La…

Working so hard on wedding planning (we are in crunch time now - 29 days), cooking at home has been a little more sparse. We have had to re…

Every once in a while, I find a very tiny little bug on the floor of the bathroom. We have a dog, of course, and we also tend to leave the…

One of the tougher things about writing, in general, is that everything in writing seems black and white. You have to possess some literary…

Well, my intestines continue to be angry. They even retaliate from me trying to get them to digest RICE! The other night, knowing how my …

For whatever reason, back in September my Crohn's started to reeeeeally act up. I had to completely limit my diet to full fluids and Bo…

You know, I think that in one way or another, each person's dreams do come true. Often it is not the way in which we expect. Sometimes …

Here are some of my best pieces of advice for dealing with IBD, specifically Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease: ▪Get accustomed t…

You know how we all have a general idea what we would do with lottery winnings if we ever won? That's a pretty normal thing to do - to…

Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease are often labeled 'bathroom diseases'. They are. They're not just bathroom diseas…

I often spend time thinking about how to describe the various ways that I feel. The procedures, the appointments, the contradictory emotion…