As we near the end of 2017 and enter into a new year, I want to wish everyone a happy and healthy 2018.
I guess I should say, "healthier" 2018. Us chronic illness sufferers will never be "healthy" unless a cure is found.
Having said that, I want to thank everyone that has read, contributed and/or commented on my blog. We're all here to help one another get through whatever we are suffering from.
So, if you are suffering from Crohn's, UC, IBD or any chronic or invisible illness, my hope for 2018 is that your illness will be less painful or debilitating and that we all stay out of hospital
Happy New Year !!
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Thank you, diagnosed last September and spent my first hospital stay in a cancer ward because there are overcrowded. Seeing patients that were in hospice care was enlightening so I never felt sorry for myself and shared a lot of empathy since I’ve gone through hospice with my mother a few months before and I got to help start the healing process with some long conversations and hugs. My nurses thought I was crazy because I was talking about all the things I was going to cook when I got better and talking about riding over the continental divide on the bicycle late in the summer which my friend who has Crohn’s has volunteered to do with me he is from Ireland and last summer he rode across Canada on his bike from the Atlantic to the Pacific I am ready to start ridding my bike again even though I still feel very weak but I’m going to be spending time in the pool swimming at the rec center and I’m gonna be spending time walking and I’m slowly going to build up to the point where I can go on long bike rides and get ready for that beautiful ride in the summer my doctors think I’m a little crazy but then my orthopedic doctor thought I was crazy when I got my knee through PT in three weeks instead of six by following all of their recommendations plus the NFL work out on a bike 30 minutes of riding all the way till it hurts stop and repeated.then ice for 20, heat for 20 and start again twice a day.I finished my PT in half the time and was playing volleyball The very next weeks with the doctor’s apporvol, Do of course when I am told that what I have to do is impossible I will take the challenge and it will be a struggle and it will be a learning experience and even if I can’t get to that ability I will be further along and healthier than I’ve ever been as an adult I will have a blog and website up soon but feel free to contact me by email because we are in this together with the support of everybody else there’s nothing that can compress
Wow, that's great!!!
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