14 hours ago, MaryIsobel said:I'm sorry for your recurrence of Crohn's. It's a b**ch of a disease. My younger sister suffered from it from the time she was 14. She spent her teenage years in hospital, often on TPN. She had a couple of resections and did okay for a while, then relapsed. They said she could have one more resection but it would likely end up with her having a permanentt colostomy. She said she didn't care -she just wanted to be out hospital and live a semi normal life. They did the resection and she didn't end up with a colostomy and went on to graduate from college, have a career, get married and have two boys. From the time she got pregnant, all her Crohn's symptoms went away and she became part of a UBC study of women who suffered from Crohn's or colitis or ileitis colitis who seemed to be symptom free after pregnancy. I wish you the verey bet outcome.
I am currently on TPN, first time ever.
I am very fortunate in that I have mostly been symptom free for most of my life. I was diagnosed at 10 years old following investigation into other symptoms related to my joints. Since then I’ve consistently worked, both here in the UK and abroad, I lived in Russia for three years, married twice and raised four great kids.
There are people with this horrendous condition that have suffered/are suffering a great deal more than me.
