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I’ve been away from the blog for a long time. Months, to be exact. Do I have a good excuse? Not really. But I have a simple one: I needed a break. Over the last year or so, my life has gotten busier. A lot busier. I spun more and more plates, and eventually, I got...
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I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s been there. The relief when I rush into a public bathroom, and it’s empty. When it’s not, the frantic can I hold it? I can hold it. I can’t hold it. The timing myself in unison to flushes, or coughing, or launching the hand-dryer...
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Let me start off by saying that this post is not a guilt trip. Nor is it the speech of a martyr or a “good” sick person. It‘s awful having a chronic illness. It sucks. So we built ourselves a good community. We support each other. But what about them? By them, I mean...
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Like many parents, I sometimes worry if I’m any good at this raising-a-child thing. Is he watching too much TV? Should he be eating that much jam? If I take him to the grocery store in his pajamas, have I failed? Having a chronic illness compounds these feelings and...
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When you have a chronic illness, it’s easy to focus only on the negative impact it has on your life. Pain, sickness, endless rounds of treatment, overwhelming fatigue, the loss of life as you knew it and the disruption of all your plans for the future. See? Easy. It’s...
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I recently wrote a blog post about my pending adventure into the wilds (Camping with Crohn’s – What Could Go Wrong?). I was understandably nervous: it was the first time I had gone anywhere remotely uncivilized since being diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. I was worried...
