This past March marked the four year anniversary of my final surgery for ulcerative colitis at the Mayo Clinic.  For those of you not familiar with the disease, I was diagnosed as a newlywed with UC back in 2006, not even a year after our wedding. It’s  a terrible autoimmune disorder that manifests as (eww) […]

There’s no doubt about: dealing with infertility consumes every last bit of energy reserve a girl can have.  Emily Ley wrote a fantastically transparent post on the emotional side of it, and I could’ve written it myself.  I’m learning to deal with it and I’m trying to choose joy. Choosing to cut myself some slack […]

We’re sitting in the women’s hospital waiting room where I’m nervously awaiting bloodwork from the lab in the lobby. I’ve had to bring Jude with me because I really didn’t want to call anyone to explain what I was doing. So there we sat. “Mom?” “Hmm?” “I need to go potty. Can I go by […]

Some of you who are new around here probably aren’t too familiar with my journey with Ulcerative Colitis.  Let me sum it up for you: I was super sick with a chronic form of IBD (the twin sister disease to Crohns) for nearly 4 years, couldn’t get off of the satanic drug Prednisone, and went […]