12 Days Of A Crohnie Christmas : Day 6

On the sixth day of Christmas, my Crohns Disease gave to me.........
...6 Remicade infusions,

5 fistulaaaaaaaaaa's,
4 kidney stones,
3 bone density tests,
2 peri-anal abscesses
and a painful colonoscopy.

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12 Days Of A Crohnie Christmas : Day 5

On the fifth day of Christmas, my Crohns Disease gave to me.........
...5 fistulaaaaaaaaaa's,

4 kidney stones,
3 bone density tests,
2 peri-anal abscesses
and a painful colonoscopy.

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12 Days Of A Crohnie Christmas : Day 4

On the fourth day of Christmas, my Crohns Disease gave to me.........
...4 kidney stones,

3 bone density tests,
2 peri-anal abscesses
and a painful colonoscopy.


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12 Days Of A Crohnie Christmas : Day 3

On the third day of Christmas, my Crohns Disease gave to me.........
...3 bone density tests,

2 peri-anal abscesses,
and a painful colonoscopy.


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12 Days Of A Crohnie Christmas : Day 2

On the second day of Christmas, my Crohns Disease gave to me.........
...2 peri-anal abscesses

and a painful colonoscopy.


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12 Days Of A Crohnie Christmas : Day 1

I normally do a Crohnie advent calendar, but this year, I'm doing a "12 days" instead.....

On the first day of Christmas, my Crohns Disease gave to me.........
...a painful colonoscopy.



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Struggling With Crohns ??

I get asked about how I handle having Crohn's.  The day to day, the not knowing, the pain, the frequent bathroom visits, the this, the that.
Honestly....sometimes I just want to sit and do nothing, but I know I have to get up and get going and not let the Crohn's take over.
In the beginning of my "journey" I just wanted to give up, but learned over time, that it's just one step at a time.  They are small steps, but steps all the same.
Or as this video shows.....one foot in front of the other.

http://youtu.be/OORsz2d1H7s

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Remicade : Day 497

I arrived for my infusion early, as I always do, but this time there was no one in front of me, so I got hooked up early.....awesome.
It's cold here so before I left, I heated up my hand and put gloves on.  Then when I arrived, I put my hand under a heating blanket....made my veins pop right out...awesome again.
Then I found out this infusion was lucky #13, so instead of bad or weird things happening, it was one of the best infusions.  No problem with the IV needle, quick infusion, no worries.


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Crohnie Quote Of The Day

You know your medication is expensive when even the pharmacist looks at the price and goes, "Whaaaaaaat??!!!"



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Crohn's and Star Trek

You might be asking yourself what has Crohn's got to do with Star Trek?
Well, I was watching Star Trek Next Generation and started to laugh at the end of the opening monologue where they say..."to boldly go where no one has gone before"...
I laughed because "to boldly GO..", so of course, being who I am, I automatically thought of going to the bathroom.
So, I came up with my own monologue for me and my Crohn's.....in the context of Star Trek,,

Crohn's, The Inflammatory Bowel Disease
These are the experiences of the Crohnie, Vern
His ongoing mission
To explore strange new bathrooms
To seek out new toilets and new bidets
To boldly GO where no one has gone before....

(insert music here)

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