An Ulcerative Colitis/J Pouch Update

Ulcerative Colitis + Me

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May 14

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This past March marked the four year anniversary of my final surgery for ulcerative colitis at the Mayo Clinic.  For those of you not familiar with the disease, I was diagnosed as a newlywed with UC back in 2006, not even a year after our wedding. It’s  a terrible autoimmune disorder that manifests as (eww) […]

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JPouch Surgery/Takedown: 1 Year Later

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Mar 3

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Some of you who are new around here probably aren’t too familiar with my journey with Ulcerative Colitis.  Let me sum it up for you: I was super sick with a chronic form of IBD (the twin sister disease to Crohns) for nearly 4 years, couldn’t get off of the satanic drug Prednisone, and went […]

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Six Weeks

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Jan 10

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Sorry for the blogging absence over last week. It was a DOOZY. Let’s see, where to start … As of this upcoming Wednesday, I’ll be six weeks out from surgery. Which means I’m halfway to the next surgery! Hopefully, that is. I don’t have it officially scheduled yet. But still … I can’t believe that […]

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This Week

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Nov 29

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Well, kiddies, the time is upon us! Tomorrow morning, I’m off to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, and Wednesday I roll on in for surgery. I can’t believe it’s been a month since we were up there. In some ways, it’s been a blink of an eye; in others ways, it’s like it’s been […]

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