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2026

March 2026 Will My Life Ever Be Normal Again? 

February 2026 You Might Have Ulcerative Colitis If . . . 

January 2026 Why Words Matter (Guest Writer) 

2025 

December 2025 Stress? What Stress?

November 2025 Who Can You Thank Today? 

October 2025 IBS and IBD. Can We Change One of Those Names?

September 2025 Embarrassment is Optional

August 2025 Accepting, Denying, and Neil Diamond 

June/July 2025 No Post 

May 2025 Don't Forget the "Ulcerative" Part of Colitis

April 2025 Just Take Your Medicine

March No Post

February 2025 My Ruptured Appendix Experience

January 2025  Being Happy and Productive With a Chronic Disease

2024

December 2024 This Christmas? So Far So Good

November 2024 It's Not Just a Flight of Stairs

October 2024 I Was THIS Close! (And My Almost Disastrous Day)

September 2024 What's Your Worst Symptom? I Have Three

August 2024 Now I Know What a Flare Is - Guess How I Know

July 2024 Why Am I Sharing?

June 2024 How I Am Like A Theme Park

May 2024 WHAT DID I DO WRONG?

April 2024 Connecting To Our Purpose

March 2024  Don't Be Alone. Fight the Glitch!

February 2024 Assistive Devices: We Need To Get Over Ourselves 

January 2024 Okay, Reddit Is Not So Bad

2023

December 2023 Warm Fuzzies For Christmas!

November No Post

October 2023 Change in Perspective: This Is Not a Poop Disease

September 2023 "I Failed My Medication." No, You Didn't

August 2023 Stupid, Stupid . . . Stupid!

July No Post

June 2023 Trapped Inside the Doctor's Box

May 2023 An Alternate to Exercise: Virtual Reality Games (No Kidding.)

April Flare After Flare or One Really Long One?

March Two Not So Clear Questions About Pain

February No Post

January Becoming

2022 

December Christmas Too Commercial? That's Not Such a Bad Thing

November Gratitude: Let's Hear It For Indoor Plumbing! 

October Looking Forward to My Next Headache

September A Change in Perspective: What is a Healing Person?

August Are You Getting Over It? (Who do you tell?)

Will My Life Ever Be Normal Again?

The title question, "Will my life ever be normal again?" is a natural, human question we often ask ourselves after a painful life-...