With Crohn’s disease, when you start feeling like shit you know you are in for the long haul. Crohn’s is a Victorian wasting disease where the only remedies are hot pads, cold compresses, and moving to the mountains where the air is less tubercular. Except it’s 2025 and you can’t buy morphine or heroin overContinue reading “How does one “Feel Better?””
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Pain
Two nights ago I experienced what I think may have been the worst pain of my life. Following a very high stress week, like crying at work, the students can tell something is wrong stress, like your elderly parents and disabled brother are living in filth with mouse shit all over their kitchen and onlyContinue reading “Pain”
Here is how capitalism caused my Crohn’s disease.
1) It is socially acceptable and commercially encouraged to eat a diet high in meat, fat, and processed foods. This diet is driven by advertising. This diet contributes to higher rates of Crohn’s disease. 2) Big pharma can’t monetize vegetables, so they have no incentive to get people to eat the foods that lower theContinue reading “Here is how capitalism caused my Crohn’s disease.”
Practical Skills for Living in a Pandemic
Basic Cooking Just…start with an onion and try not to burn it. Coping with Isolation People with chronic illness will go through many periods of isolation in their lives. That’s what happens when you are too sick, or weak, or fatigued, or in pain, to leave your bed or your home. Work is mostly outContinue reading “Practical Skills for Living in a Pandemic”
Eating Vegan with Crohn's Disease 