Someone asked me today if I felt so lucky to have my j-pouch at the risk of sounding completely negative, rude and ungrateful, I answered, “not today.”. What the hell kind of answer is that, Brooke? I mean really. You were dying. Literally, wasting away and bleeding to death. You…
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Gray Clouds Covering The Blue Skies
I never really know how to appropriately start posts on topics like this one. The topic of Depression. I’ve touched on it lightly in the past and you may have read or heard me talk about it in various interviews, but I’ve never really put it out there. I think…
Life As I Know It
It’s been weeks since you’ve heard from me. Mostly because it’s been weeks that I have functioned without some sort of challenge. Let’s see the last you heard from me I had received my first Remicade infusion treatment. That is when it all got rather…nutty, as Hippo would say. Within…
Your Words Carry Weight…Speak!
I’ve always been an outspoken person when it comes to standing up for what’s right. I’m a black female in America, growing up I knew there was a lot to stand for. But, to fight and march and walk…not completely necessary. I was very grateful to those trailblazers during the…
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An Honored Hero Takes A Step
Okay that’s probably the cheesiest title I’ve given a post in a long time, but I am gosh darn so excited and honored to be apart of this years Take Steps For Crohn’s & Colitis Los Angeles as Team Captain of Team Crazy Creole Mommy & as Take Step’s Adult…
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The Single Mom, The Fake Colon & The Valentine
You haven’t heard from me in a while because it’s just been an interesting two weeks. I take that back, it’s been an interesting few months. We started off the year with Jaxon’s eye surgery. Then we followed that with pouch blockages, a fissure, Jax had an ear infection AND…