Weight loss & AIP

What have I been doing to drop the pounds!?!?! Just diet! I have not been feeling well enough to do much of anything.  I have been my spirt animal = SLOTH! I have been resting and sleeping when I am not at work or playing my daughter. My parents have been amazing with daughter and…

Infection 2019

The last half of this year has been really testing my fears. One of my biggest fears is dying of an infection that is antibiotic resistant and I have been septic TWO different times since September. I have been getting UTI’s that just don’t seem to go away and don’t respond to any mix of…

When my Crohns world turned upside down

I have had a very tough battle with this illness. I have had to leave my town and seek more specialized treatment because no doctor knew what to do with me. The only thing they did was add more drugs to me and I was just getting sicker and sicker at 17-19 years old. My…

Heated Things

I have no idea why but I have ALWAYS loved heated things. So I wouldn’t expect anything different from my mini me! My daughter at about 2 months started having issues with her stomach. I immediately start to panic and go down the rabbit hole. I was thinking the worst that she developed crohns that…

Holiday rush!

Oh man Christmas is just NOT the same when you have kids! It is SO stressful!!! This year my sister and her kids came over and it was 5 kids from ages 8-1. Overall it was a magical experience making those memories but it really tested my limits of my will power. All these cheese…

Oh Food! 

Oh food!            I feel like everyone has a love hate relationship with food. Especially ones who have been diagnosed with some form of IBD. When I got very ill I went from eating to NO food by mouth for months till my surgery. TPN, Total Parenteral Nutrition, was a lifesaver…

Tattoo Idea 

I want to get another tattoo ( I have a small semicolon by scars on my stomach but I want to get two tiny hearts over my picc line scars on my arm. Those scars saved my life. I was feed through my pic line for 14 hours out of the day for about 6…

Just a video of me setting up some fluids!

I am going to post something everyday in my journal but it’s going to be my goal to post on some form of social media! Day 1 is a quick video of me putting some meds in a IV!   -XO,