Tuesday, December 1st, begins Inflammatory Bowel Disease Awareness Week. Nearly 5 million people worldwide have Crohn’s Disease, ulcerative colitis or Indeterminate Colitis. Many of those people are in the hospital. Some of them are waiting for surgery. Others are recovering from surgery. Many of them are fighting with their insurance companies to get their medicines that cost thousands of dollars…
As anyone living with a chronic illness knows, life is no easy feat. Life is not ideal. Life is hard. Life is painful. Even menial tasks become extremely taxing. Going about our lives attempting to be normal is, more often than not, excruciating. I could go on and on boring you with details of how miserable life with an…
Many of you know that two weeks ago, my husband and I both lost our jobs. We are going through a big transition and a lot of things are happening here that would not be possible had it not been for that, so, I consider it almost a good thing. I’ve been doing several side jobs and getting my…
Scenario #1: “You need to hold off on the French Fries. You’ve got more rolls than a bakery!” Scenario #2: “Gah! You’re so skinny! What are you, anorexic or something? Eat a burger!” The above statements are just two examples of a little something I like to call weight shaming. It does not matter what size you are, weight…
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