Posts Tagged ‘guest’

Hello C.A.P. readers!My name is Tim and I write a blog about getting through college with Crohn’s Disease. I was diagnosed with Crohn’s my freshman year of high school and have been living and thriving ever since. Yes, I have had my fair share of hospital visits and uncomfortable situations, but life has been good [...]

Hi again I have had such a chaotic time of late with my journey into the modelling industry, I had 2 shoots last week and Im now agency represented which is a big step for me, I will hopefully go on to show the world that scars do not make you any less beautiful than [...]

At a Crohn’s symposium on Sunday, a medical speaker talking about the various imaging tests mentioned that Barium was now on its way out as the imaging method of choice for our bowels, being overtaken by CT scans and MRI’s. To mark the passing of this substance that has been such a huge part of [...]

A delicious exchange of Tweets with a fellow Crohnie today where we were each extolling the virtues of various British comfort foods has set me thinking about the agony and ecstacy of food for us Crohnies. We see both extremes when it comes to not just appetite but an appreciation of food. I was progessively [...]

I SAT ALONE and seemingly forgotten in one of the closet-like consulting rooms of the gastro-intestinal clinic at Birmingham’s Royal Free Hospital. Over the previous seven years I had sat in similar rooms countless times, only to have the medic stare at his notes while mumbling the profession’s many different and obtuse versions of “Sorry [...]