Happy Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Week! The theme for Awareness Week this year is “Making the invisible visible by sharing a day in the life with IBD.” In today’s blog post, I share my innermost thoughts and wishes as someone living with an invisible disease. Life with Invisible Symptoms My colon was almost destroyed because […]
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, […]