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• Christina’s Colonoscopy Tips

  By CrohnsDiaries on June 5, 2013 • ( 7 )

  

  My grand plan with LivingSick.com was to merge my inner thoughts about living with Crohn’s disease and how it’s impacted my life with real-life, concrete tips. If you are a regular reader of mine, you’ll know that I prefer to… Read More ›

• What I Know To Be True

  By CrohnsDiaries on May 24, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Life is a series of journeys that overlap and intertwine, reaching toward one another, adding to your bank of knowledge, making you wise and whole. When I write, I write with structure in mind, my words straining toward a conclusion–a… Read More ›

• Healing Spring [Part II]: Postoperative PTSD

  By CrohnsDiaries on May 10, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  I wish my doctors had warned me that some patients have trouble recovering emotionally from major abdominal surgery and its painful complications. Surgeons and gastroenterologists read through lists of physical warnings that include serious infections that can lead to death,… Read More ›

• Healing Spring [Part I]: Surgery and Depression

  By CrohnsDiaries on April 27, 2013 • ( 8 )

  

  I used to love spring. After each colorless winter, I would open all of the windows in the house for those first gloriously warm and clear, sunny days. Everything would be coated in thick, yellow pollen like the walls of… Read More ›

• Shaming and the IBD Community

  By CrohnsDiaries on April 23, 2013 • ( 3 )

  On April 18th, I was given the distinguished opportunity to join The Crohn’s Colitis Effect’s second IBD Round Table Discussion*. It was an amazing conversation among patients and caregivers who clearly care about the ways in which we inform the… Read More ›

• Fibro Feist

  By CrohnsDiaries on April 18, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  “Less sick. More sass.” is the tagline of Sarah’s wonderful multidimensional site about living a full life with fibromyalgia. I wish I could tattoo this phrase on my arm, so I could read it all day long. I had a rough… Read More ›

• Anyone But Me

  By CrohnsDiaries on April 15, 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  I want to be someone else. I want to move without restrictions, to not have constant pain.   I feel it so strongly, a thousand pricks against my too-tight skin. I want to be the way I used to be… Read More ›

• The Crohn’s Journey Foundation

  By CrohnsDiaries on April 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  I am very honored that The Crohn’s Journey Foundation, founded by Sarah Choueiry, featured an interview with yours truly. Please take a look and also peek around the foundation’s pages to learn more about a wonderful retreat they’re organizing in… Read More ›

• Cute Heals April 9, 2013

  By CrohnsDiaries on April 11, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s almost been two months since my last “Cute Heals” post and I really have no good excuse. Depriving my readers from this amount of sheer massive cuteness is really unforgivable and a monumental tragedy. And for this, I am… Read More ›

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