If you’ve been following along with my previous posts you are probably starting to wonder whether or not I will ever have anything positive to say. Well, I will, but it just won’t be within this post. I thought I was on the road to recovery following my appendix surgery. Life was getting better, my health [...]
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Hello everyone! I apologize for the long delay in posts, I’ve been quite busy lately. If you read my previous post, you learned of emergency appendix surgery, and the subsequent four day hospitalization. Sounds like fun, right? Prior to the hospital releasing me, and after running tests on the now removed appendix, they determined [...]
READ MORE »The following is a guest post from Andi B. who blogs at MealPlanRescue about eating seasonally and happily with the people you love. When I say that manners were always important in my family, I’m not saying it lightly. In my family manners is really with a fat capital “E” for etiquette. My Grandmother is [...]
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In my previous post I detailed my trip to the emergency room, and my subsequent surgery to remove my appendix. At this point, it was the last thing I needed, and the last thing I expected to happen. By the time the doctors were ready to perform surgery it was nearly midnight, I had been [...]
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If you’ve been reading my previous posts you are fully aware that I have Crohn’s Disease, and reaching the diagnosis was anything but easy. At this point in the timeline, I have just now returned from California after proposing to my fiance. This should be a great time in my life with exciting things to [...]
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If you read the gripping terror (Yes, gripping terror, you try waking up in the middle of a colonoscopy) of my previous article then you know I’ve had a string of luck that has gone from bad to worse. At this point I’m thinking things can’t get much worse, but I am still waiting to find out [...]
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If you read my previous post you know that I had recently experienced my very first CT scan, and subsequently the first hospitalization of my life. After a very uncomfortable night in the hospital, being woken up for observation once every hour, I was more than anxious to be seen by one of their [...]
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Judging by the title of this article we can assume that I’ve had multiple CT scans and hospitalizations, but the first of each that occurred from my Crohn’s Disease was also the first of my life! Needless to say, I was definitely freaked out by the whole thing. If you read my previous post then [...]
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My battle with Crohn’s all began back in April of this year. It started with sharp excruciating pains while I was playing softball. I had just rush to the field for my game after devouring a large pizza, and assumed I had just eaten too much too fast. I struggled to make it through the [...]
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Hello All! Stay tuned for a detailed history on my battle with Crohn’s disease over the past year. It has included the removal of 10 inches of my small intestine, 8 different medications, 6 CT scans, 5 hospitalizations, 2 surgeries, and an appendix in a pear tree. I wish I had started the blog sooner so that [...]
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