Make Your Illness Your Friend

I know that having Crohn's sucks, I mean really sucks!, but in order to live, you basically have to make the disease your "friend" and live together.  Like any relationship, you're going to have your ups and downs, but there are days that everything is calm. And there will be days that you will hate each other.

Give up the "but."  You know, the "I want to go out, BUT I can't cuz I have Crohn's".  Don't get me wrong, there will be days that you just "can't" because of your illness.  There's a difference. You have to just do it sometimes.  Even if you're feeling a little bit "fine", take that opportunity.


Accept reality.  You have an incurable, chronic disease.  Until there is a cure, you need to live with it and do what you can do make it livable.  It took me years before I accepted the reality that there wasn't much I could do about it.  I could watch what I ate and could "control", sometimes, the symptoms, but not all the time.  When the flare comes, it comes and when it does, deal with it the best you can.  If curling up in a ball is it, then do it.  When the symptoms pass, you get up, brush yourself off and continue on.  If not, it will smother you, take control and consume you.


Like the song by Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down

Remicade Day : 1332

I've been sick with a "simple cold" for the past few weeks coughing, headache, stuffed up, etc. so I thought going in to the clinic that my weight would be down....hmmmm, wrong!
I stepped on the scale only to find that I had actually gained 4kg's !!  (that's 8 lbs)  I was shocked.
This Remicade is working great for my Crohn's so far.....except for that nagging, annoying, irritating peri anal abscess thingy.  Once you get past that, then all good. 
I still miss my old body, the one that use to figure skate 5 days a week and soccer twice a week.  I'm resigned in the fact I will probably never get that again, but who knows, I should start working out.  I would have to start off slow and easy, like I had a sports injury or something, but we'll see.

You Might Be A Crohnie

If you have all the ingredients memorized on the bottles in your bathroom
...you might be a Crohnie

More Wearable Art

I've added a sleeveless blouse to my Fire and Ice Collection
http://shopvida.com/collections/voices/vern-laine

Wearable Art

I have added my artwork to clothing and have started with women's silk scarves

http://shopvida.com/collections/voices/vern-laine

Hopefully I can add more clothing as well as artwork.

You Might Be A Crohnie

If the question, "how are you feeling?", is THE most difficult question in the world to answer
...you might be a Crohnie