Fight and Flight

As an inexperienced Blogger, I will admit that my hopes for creating a place where making friend's laugh with witty remarks about links to funny Youtube videos and Restaurant Industry commentary were rather high.  But, as I learned more about putting together what I may look back on someday and want to be proud of, I decided to focus some attention on what's really going on in my life. I am twenty-six years old, single, and reside in Boston. One more thing; I have Crohn's Disease.  


I visited my family in Florida this week.  While I can't wait to fly back home to Bean Town tomorrow, I am terrified.  I am experiencing a full-on Crohn's relapse.  Leaving my beloved city to come back to a place that I moved (slash ran) from years ago was difficult, but knowing in my gut that when I arrive back in the chilly Northeast, I will be sick and without my mom... that's rough.


Earlier this evening, I received a link from a dear friend that couldn't have arrived at a better time.  http://crohnsend.com/ is a website developed by Reid Bryant Kimball, Director of the documentary WANTED: Crohn's End, (which can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtR8CmXCndM) designed to educate the public, as well as Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis sufferers alike, about the Alternative options to help ease these terribly painful and incurable diseases.  


I am being welcomed back to Boston tomorrow by some of the most loving and amazingly bright people I have ever known.  Without my new family, I may not have known the strength that I was able to find in myself  
during these flares of my sickness.  So, I can't stay out late with the girls or wolf down cheesy fries anymore.  And who cares if I'm not able to warm up with a couple drinks out with the gang this winter?  Knowing that there are pals around who will always 'spare a square' is a pretty warming feeling.  Even in the frigid Massachusetts weather.