Crohn’s disease

Meditations on pain

November 1, 2026

The pain after my bowel surgery was devastating. Nothing seemed to help, even while I was hospitalized and had access to the best drugs.

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Mother’s milk

October 9, 2026

Imagine you’re not allowed to eat for a month. That was my reality when a diagnosis finally came: a partial small bowel obstruction.

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Living in Limbo Land

July 26, 2026

“You look pregnant,” my daughter Merav joked upon seeing my belly. But with my belly full of either gas or fluid, either I needed surgery or cancer treatment was back as an opt

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Is it all in my head?

June 23, 2019

If you were to have told me a year and a half ago that my chronic stomach pain was all in my head, I would have picked up the nearest stick and shown you what “all in your head” really feels like.

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