February 2012
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The future is even more uncertain when you are...
Everyone fears the future at times. But when you have a disease sometimes you don’t even know if you’ll make it to the next day.
One of the things I have learned from being sick is to be prepared to change your goals. You have to be a lot more flexable with your plans for the future.
Speaking of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis some of the things I have feared have...
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How Chronic Disease affects the whole family.
Yesterday on my facebook page I asked you if you ever felt like a bother to your family because you are sick. I think almost everyone said YES.
The truth is, being sick affects the whole family. When you are diagnosed it’s like your entire family is diagnosed along with you. It’s not hard to start feeling guilty when your disease is taking a toll on everyone around you.
It...
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When doctors don't believe you.
“It’s all in your head.”
Today I am in really bad pain. The kind of pain that almost brinks on panic…if this gets even a tad bit worse I might end up in the emergency room. My first reaction was to go to my medicine bin (yes, it’s a bin) and dig through to see if I had any left over pain medications from previous hospital stays. I usually have stuff left over...
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Click to read the story of a woman who was... →
: This Valentine's Day, Love Yourself More →
Keeping with the theme of today here is a great post by Emily of Chronic Curve (chroniccurve.tumblr.com) who has RA and is a part of our autoimmune disease family. This post is full of great stuff!
-Sara
chroniccurve:
I don’t care much about Valentine’s day. It makes no difference to me whether or not I’m in a relationship with another person when the 14th rolls around because no matter who...
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Dating & IBD: Fear about using someone else's...
I asked you all a question on my facebook page and twitter about your fears when it comes to dating and relationships and having Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis and it seems like we all have most of the same fears. I was reading through what you said and was shaking my head in agreement the whole time. I have felt most of the things you feel.
One thing that was mentioned a lot was...
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Valentine's Day Week Blog #4 Dating and IBD Part 1
When and how to tell someone you have Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis.
Starting a new relationship is hard in itself, and when you throw inflammatory bowel disease on top of that it can become overwhelming.
For the rest of the week I am going to focus on relationships with significant others and how IBD plays a role in that. Today we will talk about when and how to tell someone...
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Vday week blog #3: Giving back - loving others!
You all know by now that this week in honor of the upcoming holiday (Valentine’s day) I am focusing on love and relationships and how having Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis impacts them.
Yesterday we talked about self love. Today I am talking about loving others and others who love you. This LOVEly week will end with a video blog about dating/relationships and IBD and also...
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Valentine's Day Week Blog # 2: Your IBD inner...
Today I am going to talk about relationships you have with other people. The people who love you but do not have IBD. I call this my IBD inner circle. These are the people I surround myself with because they make me feel good about myself. This is very important when you have a chronic disease. You need friends in your real life to support you. Friends who don’t have Crohn’s...
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Valentine's Day Week Blog #1: Self Love.
For the rest of the week leading up to Valentine’s day I am going to be blogging and video blogging about relationships. And the first relationship I am going to talk about is the relationship you have with yourself: self love. Get your mind out of the gutter you silly! I’m not talking about loving yourself that way…maybe another day. haha
It is true what they say,...
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Products every girl with Crohn's/colitis should...
I will do a make-up version of this soon but it was too much to include in this post.
A lot has been discussed recently on my facebook page about having IBD and self-esteem/self-image. You girls also often ask me about what I do to make myself feel good when I am having a down in the dumps (or taking some dumps) kind of day. So I thought I would share with you some of my favorite tips/tricks...
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"Some days you gotta dance....
live it up when you get the chance”.
It was the Dixie Chicks that sang that. I’m not a fan of country music but I am a fan of dancing. Though I do think i’d look pretty cute in some cowboy boots. ;P
So this is my blog post about how you NEED to do the things in life you love when you are chronically sick. Those healthy people you know, they just take for granted that they...
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My "window" is shrinking. Do you have a window...
Lately because I have been feeling so bad I only have a few good hours during the day. I call that my window. It’s the time in the day that I have where I feel well enough to do something. If I am in remission my window is wide open, I have the whole day and can usually accomplish everything on my to do list.
If I am in a flare-up or something else is going on then my window shrinks....
