#P2PEP16 This past weekend, I was given the opportunity to travel to the University of Michigan and speak with a group of patients at the Patient to Patient Education Project (#P2PEP16). It was such an honor and a privilege to be able to meet even more IBD advocates, doctors and nurses around the world. Acceptance Topics were assigned to…
Everybody Loves a Hero… Yesterday officially marked my living without a colon for two years. So much has changed since that day. I feel like I’ve been swept up in a whirlwind. I was going to write something different today… about what it was like the day after surgery. Today, however, I feel compelled to write about how I…
What Happens During a Colectomy? If you read last week’s blog post, you’ll know that I’m coming up on ONE YEAR since the removal of my wretched colon on April 15th. The procedure I had done was the proctocolectomy with the construction of a j-pouch and loop ileostomy. A proctocolectomy differs from a colectomy because the rectum (and sometimes…
Can the Specific Carbohydrate Diet induce remission in IBD? I’ve stated it many times before. Diet is an extremely sensitive issue for many people living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. For different reasons. Some pine for the days when they were able to eat whatever they wanted without consequences. Others get upset because people slap them in the face with…
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