2021 marks five years doing fundraisers with the Gaming4Guts crew. It’s hard to believe that it’s been that long! I joined in 2017 after participating in the Extra Life charity streaming event raising money for the Children’s Miracle Network. I had wanted to do the same type of streaming event for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. After…
Hello everyone. This update is going to be a bit different. Because I had to stop the Autoimmune Protocol Diet unfortunately. My bowels this week pretty much had it. With this diet I was eating a lot of veggies and my colitis is currently not happy with that. So Thursday I ended up having to…
What form of IBD do you have? On paper I have Ulcerative Colitis but my doctor has mentioned a couple of times that I probably have Inderterminate Colitis. So that’s pretty much what I identify as. There also isn’t a Inderterminate Colitis diagnostic code so that doesn’t help either. There was also that one time…
Today marks my seventh day on the Autoimmune Protocol Diet(AIP). For those of you who don’t know, the AIP diet is a restricted version of the Paleo diet. The purpose of this diet is to take immune responsive(or potentially responsive) foods out of your diet and try to get your autoimmune diseases into remission. Here…
The last 6 weeks or so have been pretty rough for me. Between going through a very tough day at work and then working 12 days in a row two different times in the last month. And then getting sick and having to go out of town for work. I’m struggling to get myself back…
It’s so daunting to think of. The fact that I’m going to change my diet. But I’m tired of not feeling well. And food is one of the things that I can control. I’m getting tired of not feeling well. And my doctors are kind of meh 🤷♂️, when it comes to what to do…
When does explaining what happens to people when they lose their health insurance turn into fearmongering? Fearmongering according to the Oxford dictionary is: The action of deliberately arousing public fear or alarm about a particular issue. Now I don’t see it as fearmongering. It’s the honest truth that if someone with an incurable disease loses…
Wandering? Wandering through life? The internet? My head? Lost? Lost in thoughts? Dreams? Reality? It’s hard to say where I have been in the last year. All of the above really. Things at work got hard with a coworker retiring. Like ridiculously hard. Working too much over time, in too much pain and dealing with…
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