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It’s OK to be sick

August 13, 2018 · Filed Under: Health · Tagged With: Africa, crohn's, family, health, illness, surgery, travel

When I got sick, it was public. I was late and out sick often, I couldn’t be as social as I had been before, I lost a lot of weight and later a lot of hair. I know some people criticized me for how often wrote about my illness, but I didn’t know any otherContinue reading >>

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Ignatius and me in Barcelona: Companionship, reliance and faith

July 19, 2018 · Filed Under: faith, Health, Places · Tagged With: Barcelona, crohn's, family, friends, ignatius, pilgrimage, travel

He was afraid that if he had a companion with him, he would lose some of that supreme trust in God, deflecting it onto his companion. – Pedro de Ribadeneira, writing of Ignatius’s travel from Manresa to Barcelona en route to the Holy Land, in The Life of Ignatius Loyola At a certain point inContinue reading >>

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In between miracles

March 24, 2018 · Filed Under: faith · Tagged With: crohn's, family, grief, Lent, prayer

On the April day that I went to the emergency room for the first time, I returned home to learn that my cousin and godmother had died after a bewildering health emergency. It had only been a few years since we had lost two other family members far too young, and in those intervening yearsContinue reading >>

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What grows in winter

January 19, 2018 · Filed Under: Health · Tagged With: apartment, crohn's, gardening, health, marriage, surgery

snowy lavender

On a frigid Friday night about three years ago, I surrendered. I spent the evening pacing the subterranean studio apartment where I lived alone, clutching my hair and praying Hail Mary. The pain I had dealt with since my Crohn’s diagnosis a few years prior had taken over my body and mind. The searing sensationContinue reading >>

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Insurance and the common good

July 26, 2017 · Filed Under: Culture, Health · Tagged With: common good, crohn's, health care, insurance, surgery

I had been working for my current employer for five years, happily paying for my portion of my insurance costs while lucky enough to not need more than a yearly exam, when I became suddenly ill. Out of nowhere I was diagnosed with an unpredictable chronic illness that I had done nothing to cause. AboutContinue reading >>

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    February 15 - March 9
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    February 25 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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    March 5 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
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    March 16 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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