March 31, 2009

Life with Crohns

Crohns disease? What’s that? I had never heard of Crohns until I was diagnosed with it 2005. An inflammatory bowel disease, Crohns can be debilitating, embarrassing, and painful all at once. It is an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract. Here I was a perfectly healthy 21 year old girl, just moved in with my fiancé, my whole life ahead of me, nothing to slow me down; man was I wrong! I thought I was invincible. Read more here: Life with Crohns