Bowel disease is in our family. I might be the only one with Crohn's, but I am sad to say that bowel disease is well and truely in our family tree. This week has been the hardest week i my life to date - and to put it in perspective, the entirity of 2010 was full ...
The bottom line
I haven’t written in a while and there are several good reasons for that. I am going to have to get to those later. I cried all the way home from work tonight, the whole way. I had my performance review today and it was fine – just what I expected. I didn’t expect there would ...
In my head.
The mother of all headaches is a stark reminder that sometimes what you are taking isn’t as bad as what your not allowed to take.
When is arthritis… not arthritis?
My name is Amanda and as the name of my blog and this first story suggests, I have Ileocolic Crohn’s disease. The scariest thing about what I have is how little is known and published about it. There is a bit of stuff on Wikipedia, but all the material is very tactfully worded with a lot of conjecture. The reality is – no one really knows what it is, what causes it or what puts suffers into acute phases of it. So here I am. I have no hard medical facts, apart from what’s on my reports and what I am told, but here I will post my story. How I was diagnosed and cope with Crohns Disease.