Can You Still Be Ambitious With a Chronic Illness?
I found my grad school acceptance email in my spam folder. At this point I had received rejections from almost
Category: Crohn’s
Insurance Shenanigans again….
I sometimes feel like this blog has become a vent for my frustration with the absolute dumpster fire that US
It’s been a while….
Hello Friends! It’s been a while! A long while indeed, so a little update about me, my Crohn’s and its
The Infusion Drama Continues…
Remember, when I said, that the new place looked promising? Well, how wrong I was. Over the last few infusions,
Accessibility and the “hidden curriculum”
It’s the end of summer- in a few weeks, I will be back on campus, teaching. Every college class, of course, starts with handing out the syllabus, explaining course policies, explaining what we’ll do in class. There is also always an accommodation section, and it is usually a pre-written paragraph from the university that you get to paste into the syllabus. Accommodations can be anything from allowing for more time on exams, how to make up for absences, allowing for recording or other note-taking devices- you get the gist.
Podcasts and Podcast Episodes about Crohn’s, Colitis, and more
I, as so many others, love podcasts. To be sure, it’s a bit of a wild west out there, especially
I had my appointment! I had an infusion! (update on the infusion adventure)
“Ich hân mîn lêhen, al die werlt, ich hân mîn lêhen!” jubilated German Poet Walther von der Vogelweide (1170ish- 1230ish)
New Infusion Drama
The new infusion drama is a lot like the old infusion drama: unnecessary, full of bureaucracy, and of course, it’s
The Black Death and Autoimmune Diseases/Disorders
On October 19, 2022, Nature published the findings of a research team from the University of Chicago, MacMaster University and
Traveling Scotland with IBD
I recently traveled through Scotland with my husband and parents. It was a lovely trip, we saw a lot, and
The Morbus Crohnicles 