I’ve been incredibly hesitant about writing the following post, considering the racial temperature of the United States, whenever a person of color makes a reference to the egregious situations that plague American citizens of color and of faiths other than Christianity, they are lambasted. We are often accused of being…
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Crohn's & Colitis
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Nevermind…I forgot I had beets!
Have you ever experienced sheer panic?! I mean, stomach drop to your knees, heartbeat drumming loudly in your ears, spontaneous funk sweat, mouth dry as a desert panic? The kind where you are sure this is the end of your life. You are positive death is leaning over your shoulder…
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Post Mother’s Day Post
Two weeks ago, my best friend, also a mother living with IBD, asked my opinion of The Perfect Mother’s Day. I began to text my response but stopped. I realized I had no idea what The Perfect Mother’s Day is. No one had ever asked. And I had never really…
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Let Me Reintroduce Myself…
…My name is Brooke Abbott and I have IBD. I realize that most of you reading this are new to the Chronicles and so the time has come for me to re-tell my tale. What you may find is that it’s similar to yours, or yours and perhaps yours…
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No Postmark, I Lost The Address
Dearest, I’m exhausted, but I’m writing. You’re never going to read this, but I’m writing. Every single year I think of doing this, but I don’t. I think about doing it because I suppose I never healed properly. But I don’t because logically it makes no sense to write a…
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The Prebiotic Life *Sponsored Post*
*Paid Sponsorship: The following post is a review of a product I was paid to try. Although I have received payment for this review, the opinions are all mine and an honest account of how I feel about the product.* One the hardest things about living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease…