In May of 2015, during Digestive Disease Week ( DDW ), I had the honor of hosting the webcast Preparing for Procedures and Surgeries for the IBD Social Circle. The webcast panelist included Amber J. Tresca of AboutIBD.com, Dr. Megan Costedio of the Cleveland Clinic, Ryan Stevens of CrohnsGuy.com, Dr. Muhammad Ali of The University of […]
Asking for help is something that can appear so much harder to do when you have Crohn’s Disease or any other form of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). I think that this is because IBD sometimes makes us creatures of extremes. One one hand, the disease takes so much from us that we refuse […]
They say IBD is just a bathroom disease….. Well, you and I know different! It’s not a bathroom disease. In fact, I’d argue that the bathroom was only a small part of the disease. What most of the world doesn’t understand about Crohns Disease and Ulcerative Colitis is that needing to be fed by TPN ( […]
Today is Tuesday, May 19th 2015 and it’s World IBD Day! What exactly does that mean? No, it’s not a day to celebrate Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Honestly, outside of all the great people that I now consider to be part of my IBD family I can’t think of another reason to celebrate IBD. It’s a […]
I am pleased and proud to announce a new IBD video series, The Realities of IBD Together with Marisa Lauren Troy of JournalingIBD.org, The Realities of IBD will talk about living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease ( Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis ) on a daily basis. Marisa, who has been living with IBD ( Ulcerative […]
Times change and people change with it. Living with Crohn’s Disease can force you to re-evaluate a great many things in life. It can put you outside the comfort zone of the general population who consider talking about Inflammatory Bowel Disease as something to be avoided. Over time, I have discovered that whilst I still […]
The last blog I wrote for you was about the basics of a 504 plan. Today’s blog comes from the heart. It isn’t your happy, feel-good story either. When I think about it, I get mad all over again. You see, getting my son’s 504 was not all that easy. At the end of my […]
