February 2012
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“Sometimes we hurt too badly to pray so we just sigh or groan— and God...”
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“No matter what people may think or say, I wear makeup more for me. I seem to...”
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"You look so good!" To wear make-up or not →
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Puppy therapy !
2 puppies laying on my tummy. Doesn’t make the pain go away, but it does make me feel comforted.
I call them my antidepressant and my IV. Haha :P
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I don't feel good
At all.
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“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed...”
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Monday is my appointment for Shands Hospital to...
On my CT scan, blood work, and biopsies she had recut from a previous colonoscopy to get stained. Nervous! :/
Let’s hope I don’t need anymore tests done for her to diagnose me.
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I'm having a lot of cramping in my lower left area...
Oh goodness…
Doesn’t make sense. Because my doctor was thinking its Crohn’s… But that’s not where Crohn’s pain usually is. But idk because my entire abdomen seems sore so who knows. IBD is crazy. :/
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I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight.
My entire abdomen is so sore… When I try to lay it hurts. When I push on any part of my abdomen it’s tight and feels Crampy with sharpness. :(
I did not sign up for this. Lol…
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I feel like I have a million bruises all over my...
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My tummy has never made so much noise before...
And it’s not my stomach like usual, it’s my intestines for sure! They are being loud in there! I’m trying to listen to music over here lol. Guess they want to be in the track too. :P
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Check out my facebook page, I'll be posting...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Have-A-Bad-Tummy/351310301568509
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Run your fingers through my soul. For once, feel...
It’s really hard for people to understand why you can’t sleep at night.
why you can’t eat certain things.
why you feel well one minute and then feel terrible the next.
why you can’t keep plans that you made.
why you can’t go to class anymore.
why you have to be home-schooled.
why saying ‘I don’t feel well’ is nothing to joke about.
why getting...
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“I hate that weird stare you get when you walk back into a room after going to...”
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Area near belly button
Is really tender and hurting me. I wonder what it is… :(
And I got a shooting pain from my lower right area and then I went to feel the area and when I press on it the pain so sharp! And when I press under my belly button it shoots to that lower right area… :’(
What’s going on! :(
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The Choice: When Chronic Illness Interrupts the... →
Lily Altavena, a junior at New York University who suffers from Crohn’s disease, shares her experiences dealing with a chronic illness at school and tips for other students with medical issues.
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Just made a Facebook page!! I want to promote... →
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The Unseen
Something that really bothers me about having things wrong inside of me is that you can’t physically look and see what’s causing you the pain… Like, I can’t just look down at my stomach and be like, “Ohhh, that’s what’s wrong!” In order for me to figure out what is causing the pain I have to go through a million different tests.
I have 2 areas now,...
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Endometriosis and IBD
Is there a connection?
I seem to get WAY worse around that time of the month. I have even gotten in full blown flares during hat time too. Just seems like quite a coincidence to me…
My doctor has mentioned to get checked for Endometriosis. The only way however to really get checked is surgery, so it’s just a hard decision. Also, because of the IBD recoveries always take MUCH longer...
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“We have two options, medically and emotionally: Give up or fight.”
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Treatment plans
I haven’t gotten any treatment plans yet because I haven’t gotten the real diagnosis yet. My doctor knows I have Inflammatory Bowel Disease, but she’s trying to find which type I have.
My next appointment is on Monday, a week from today. She will have all the results from my CT scan, and bloodwork. So hopefully from then she can make a diagnosis, but she may or may not want to...
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Coloring my hair
To give my hair a little boost of energy!! :)
As I’m putting the color in my hair my mom mentions how thin my hair has gotten… Yep. I lose more hair everyday…
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“If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present...”
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Cancelled plans
I was supposed to go with my boyfriend and his family to a going away party for his cousin today. I woke up and felt just as bad as I did last night, and could hardly walk the pain was so bad.
He had to go and there was no way I would be able to. So again, I had to work around my tummy and cancel plans that I really wanted to go to. It made me feel really bad since his cousin is going away, but...
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You know you have a good boyfriend when
You are with a bunch of friends and you need to rush to the bathroom when your in the car, so in order to save me from embarrassment he told my friends it was HIM that needed to drive faster to get to a bathroom.
I thought that was so sweet of him because I was getting embarrassed. :( but he saved me from that today :)
He’s a keeper! :)
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“No matter how dark your current situation may be…a bright future awaits....”
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Dear illness,
“This is the part of me that your never gonna ever take away from me.
Throw your sticks and your stones, throw your bombs and your blows.
But your not gonna break my soul.
This is the part of me that your never gonna ever take away from me.”
—Part Of Me By Katy Perry
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Self Esteem
People may get upset when I say, I don’t think I’m pretty or that my illness has caused me to feel like that because they say it’s a choice, like If I wanted to I can believe that I am pretty or not. But it’s just the fact that my acne won’t stop no matter how much Proactiv I use and my hair keeps falling out so I kinda am forced to wear it up in a sloppy bun or curl...
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“Certainly, none of us enjoy going through struggles, but you have to understand...”
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It's easier said than done.
I really want to go in to work, but I don’t get to sleep until like 6am or 7am every night because of my tummy pains, and then I wake up so late because I’m EXHAUSTED. and this is exhaustion is not like any other exhaustion as you other tummy troubled friends probably know. My body is just as a whole, EXHAUSTED. So, it’s very hard for me to get up, dress up in nice clothes, do my...
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at...
As soon as I read this quote, the first thing I thought of was getting the right diagnosis, and getting the attention of the right doctor to help you.
I feel as though doctors don’t believe that you really feel as bad as you do, until they find pure evidence of what’s going on or put a name to it. That’s awful. But as the quote says, if you knock long enough and loud enough you...
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Woke up today as my stomach pain as an alarm...
Only went to sleep 2 hours ago so that’s not exactly what I had planned for this morning… Now doing the “regular” routine just trying to help myself feel better but we will see how it goes.
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“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and...”
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