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Growing Through your Diagnosis
What’s nice about being an adult and living with IBD is making all your own medical decisions. I remember sitting in my hospital bed and being given my morning medication…
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World IBD Day 2019
“We know It Takes Guts to talk about Crohn’s and Colitis. This World IBD Day, we are supporting people to start conversations that really matter. Crohn’s and Colitis are…
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Crohns & Colitis Awareness Week – December 7th: Not All Superheroes Wear Capes
Part of the week of daily blogs for #crohnsandcolitisawarenessweek “I’m thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength” Somewhat of a cliche now, but…
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Crohns & Colitis Awareness Week – December 6th: Surgery – Treatment Option or Last Resort?
Part of the week of daily blogs for #crohnsandcolitisawarenessweek I went through all medical options before I turned to surgery to help my IBD. Some days I wonder if I…
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Crohns & Colitis Awareness Week – December 5th: Misconceptions
Part of the week of daily blogs for #crohnsandcolitisawarenessweek “When they said chronic I didn’t think. They meant every single damn day.” Chronic and invisible. Double whammy. Despite there being…
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Crohns & Colitis Awareness Week – December 4th: Fatigue
Part of the week of daily blogs for #crohnsandcolitisawarenessweek For most, tiredness comes when you’re overdoing it – working too many hours, being social, finding things to do instead of…
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Crohns & Colitis Awareness Week – December 3rd: IBD and Mental Health
Part of the week of daily blogs for #crohnsandcolitisawarenessweek There, I said it. Once you say it outloud, it’s like duh of course it does but that is as far some…
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Crohns & Colitis Awareness Week – December 2nd: IBD Stigma
Part of the week of daily blogs for #crohnsandcolitisawarenessweek What does having IBD mean? It means talking about poo. It means discussing bodily functions with specialists. It means enduring testings…
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Crohns & Colitis Awareness Week – December 1st: What is IBD?
Part of the week of daily blogs for #crohnsandcolitisawarenessweek What are Crohn’s & Colitis? Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis are the major categories of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). IBD affects…