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Favourite Pleasant Surprise

Let's face it - dating with any kind of chronic illness can be incredibly difficult.  Dating with illnesses like Crohn's Disease, U…

Daily Life with IBD

What is it like to live with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (like Ulcerative Colitis or Crohn's Disease...)?  The short version…

Disease-iversary

As of this month, it has been twenty years with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.  While I have other illnesses that significantly impact my life…

Pop-Up Port-a-Potty

My newest camping accessory arrived in the mail yesterday.  I am a HUGE fan of camping. It has become my only real vacation in the last few…

Face-Palm Miscommunications

Having had Inflammatory Bowel Disease for 20 years as of this coming November, diet is always a massive obstacle and an ever-changing part …

What it Means to Have an Invisible Illness

It is often difficult to tell what anyone else around us is thinking, feeling, or experiencing.  A fake smile can hide a life of loss and d…

The Lighter Side of: Little Extras

It's not always the big symptoms or diagnoses that really grind someone down. Sometimes it's all those little extra complications …

The Lighter Side of: Frequent Bathroom Breaks

To be honest, I am not even sure how many times an 'average' person goes to the washroom. I think when people are young and health…

Philosophizing

After watching the news about the discovery of fluid within the heart that helps to heal - the fluid that is usually thrown away during sur…

The Lighter Side of: Inflammation

Inflammation can be horrendously painful.  It is, also, often difficult to explain or understand. There have been various descriptions that…

The Lighter Side of: Constipation

Alright - this is a BRAND NEW symptom for me. I have had chronic, constant, diarrhea for almost 18 years. 10 or more times a day, stuck in…

The Lighter Side of: Strict Diets

Due to my ever complicated Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, I have had to try a shocking number of really strict diets. All of them made it d…

IBD In Your Teens

Here is some basic information that I wish someone could have talked me through when I was first diagnosed with an Inflammatory Bowel Disea…

Second Guesses

While watching shows like Chicago Med and Grey's Anatomy, we always see the guilt and the second-guessing that occurs when a nurse or d…

Ostomy Covers and Resources

Twelve years ago, I had my large intestine removed and had an ileostomy bag for seven months. That amount of time is just a blink of an ey…

Mistakes She Made with her Own Ulcerative Colitis

Mistakes made about Inflammatory Bowel Disease. This is an article written by a brave young woman who was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colit…

Fun..? Crohn's Activity/Experiment

Anyone with Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's Disease (or any Inflammatory Bowel Disease or disease of the intestines) will have a pretty goo…

An Awesome Post in The Book of Awesome

"Guess who's running the last leg of the relay in your body ? Guess who's anchoring the team? Guess who's picking up the s…

Fun Facts

These are some cool biological things I learned when I had to have an ileostomy bag during my senior year of high school. Did you know tha…

Causes and Cures

Sometimes I wonder what kind of direction my life may have taken if I believed a multitude of beliefs around the causes and cures of chroni…