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• 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 ›

• To Feel or Not to Feel?

  By CrohnsDiaries on April 3, 2013 • ( 14 )

  

  Ever since my Crohn’s disease packed its small bowel bags last fall and decided to move south for the winter, I’ve experienced some of the most challenging, insistent, and high-level pain that I’ve felt since I was diagnosed with inflammatory… Read More ›

• A Day Without Pain

  By CrohnsDiaries on March 26, 2013 • ( 14 )

  

  I wish I could live a day without pain. A soft 24 hours to relax with no part of my breath held, waiting for the dam to break, sensation after sensation rushing through my system, leaving no nerve untouched. I… Read More ›

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