IBD is an invisible disease. One of the top invisible extraintestinal manifestations I deal with is hair loss. I’ve met many others in the chronic illness community who deal with hair loss, whether it’s due to medications, malnutrition, or the disease itself. Regardless of the cause, there are techniques to hide the hair loss and […]
A Flare Forced Me to Drop Out of Grad School (And Then Helped Me Find the Job of My Dreams)
Something you might not know about me is a terrible ulcerative colitis flare forced me to drop out of college. In this blog post, I share the symptoms of this life-changing flare and why dropping my classes surprisingly turned out to be the best thing for me. Flaring at the Beginning of Grad School In […]
The Link Between Autoimmune Arthritis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
In honor of the annual awareness day, World IBD Day, I’m sharing five invisible aspects of my life with ulcerative colitis. This year’s theme is “Making the invisible visible,” so I thought I’d launch this series by sharing my top invisible extraintestinal manifestation: joint pain. Joint Pain: An Invisible Extraintestinal Manifestation One thing that a […]
World IBD Day: Spreading Awareness for an Invisible Disease
Ever since my ulcerative colitis diagnosis in 2014, I get so pumped every May! May 19th is World IBD Day and May 18th – 21st is Digestive Disease Week! I love customizing blog and social media content around the specifics of my IBD journey during these awareness days. In this year’s World IBD Day post, […]
My 25th Birthday: 25 Things I’ve Learned in a Quarter of a Decade
April is my birthday month. And as I sat on the couch on my birthday eating a delicious microwavable cake my mom mailed me from across the country, I realized how much I’ve learned and how much I’ve grown as a person in my 25 years. So, I thought it would be fun to share […]
Springtime Musings: Self-Care, Sleep, and Sunlight
Have you ever participated in one of A Chronic Voice’s writing linkups for bloggers? It’s essentially a way to connect with other bloggers, and every month, there’s a set of new prompts to write about. This April linkup’s prompts are the words: tiring, educating, receiving, giving, and quieting. They don’t necessarily have to be about […]