Today I had an appointment with my gastroenterologist. I told him that I was off the prednisone now, and he was amazed. He had thought that the tapering off would have taken perhaps another 6 months. :) When I first came off the prednisone, I started feeling some of the arthritic symptoms returning to one [...]
It has been quite some time now since I last wrote. And much has happened. December 2011 saw me at almost as bad (and worse in some ways) than when I was first diagnosed 20 years ago. I was a shell of a person, and basically just existed…..it was all I could do to find [...]
So this past weekend I felt like I was beginning to really wither away. And I was. I am. It takes me no time to lose weight with this disease. It’s very simple. Eating=major cramping=diarrhea. It’s truly enough to turn one off of eating, no matter how hungry you are. In the past, this withering [...]
I have come to the conclusion that Crohn’s Disease means fear. Fear of sharting. Fear of diarrhea in the middle of work, or a party, or intimate moments with your partner. What a disease! So embarrassing. I have been living in fear for sooooooo many years. If I am sick, it is fear of the above-mentioned. [...]
So I have managed to crawl out of my depths of despair. I had an amazing weekend last weekend and I’ll tell you why. I went to Toronto to meet with Josh Gitalis, Clinical Nutritionist (http://www.insideoutnutrition.ca) , and also attended a workshop on Foods for Healing with Meghan Telpner (http://www.meghantelpner.com) . So exciting! I came away with [...]
I have been trying so hard to think positive, be positive, live positive, breathe positive. Right this minute though, I am having a really low moment. Severe cramping has brought me to my knees, physically , emotionally, spiritually. I broke down, and I wouldn’t even call it crying. I sobbed. From the depths of my [...]
So. It is what it is. What, you might be asking? Well, today was the day that I, once again, had to resort to Western medicine to help myself. The Crohn’s flare was getting worse again, and so was the arthritis. I gave it a couple of weeks, but it just progressed. It was becoming [...]
So I was just thinking today, that while I profusely thanked Meghan for having chosen me as the recipient for her Scholarship for Healing, I never mentioned the people who contributed to the Scholarship! So here it is: thank you, thank you, thank you to whoever donated money to this Scholarship! Without Meghan, this Scholarship [...]
Today I called in sick to work. I teach Kindergarten, and we had a field trip to an apple picking orchard in the morning. This was so not the day to not go to work! I felt so bad. But how could I go in? I had spent all night running to the bathroom. The [...]
I have started this blog to document this new chapter of my healing journey, healing from Crohn’s Disease and Ankylosing Spondylitis. If I can somehow help even at least one person with an idea, a thought, something, anything, I will feel like I have paid it forward. I have been given an opportunity, a “hand-up” [...]
