I’ve made many mistakes along my disease journey. The first, and most dangerous, was to believe that my fate was already sealed.
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When I was 16, I was diagnosed with a disease I’d never heard of called ulcerative colitis. Approximately 700,000 people in the United States are affected by ulcerative colitis – a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) characterized by inflammation of the large intestine (colon and rectum). It is not caused by food or a contagious disease.
Those are the facts. Now, for the reality. Continue reading