Personal Narrative: A Personal Experience With Crohn's Disease

Being disabled since the age of nineteen, Crohn's disease has taken over her life; breaking her down bit by bit, tearing apart her insides, failing her organs. Making it near impossible to even think about being in public, since the restroom is her safe haven and without it, humiliation is sure to happen. Popping prescription painkillers to make the pain tolerable

Or you could begin to experience symptoms every day Crohn 's disease has always been difficult to diagnose, because symptoms vary from patient to patient, and because it can be similar to other conditions. Doctors evaluate the patient 's history and physical exams, as well as 1 or more laboratory tests such as blood tests, stool tests, barium X-ray, colonoscopy, biopsy, computerized tomography, and video capsule

How many people look back on their teenage years will say that was the best and happiest time of their lives? It is a difficult time by most standards, but can be made worse by physical disability. Standing out in a crowd is the last thing most teenagers want to do, but as a teen with Crohn’s Disease, I am tough to ignore. I was diagnosed with Crohn’s in 7th grade and have subsequently learned how to manage the symptoms. The side effects of Crohn’s are unpredictable at best and can be positively diabolical during the most inconvenient of times, as on testing days and during sporting events, for example.

When I was in third grade, I was diagnosed with a medical condition that required me to go to Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh multiple times per month. It was boring, annoying, and sometimes painful. I never enjoyed going and that didn’t change as I got older. But when I just started going, I was very sick. Between the one hundred two-degree fever I had and the amount of blood they had to take out of me for tests, I felt miserable.

I think it would be a good idea to explain what crohns just in case you don’t know. Crohns is a disease that involves poop, yes poop. When I first got diagnosed I was having a problem with talking about this because it was pooped based. So, my doctor made me say poop one hundred

I would always have to deal with stomach aches and live in constant fear that those stomach aches were not more ruptured intestine. I would also have to take medicine every day twice a day, something I had never had to do. Worst of all, it was forever, there was and is no cure for Crohn’s disease.

With attention to diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, Crohn’s disease is one of the many common cases. Crohn’s disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disorder that both men and woman are equally susceptible too. This disease is often confused with other gastrointestinal disorders with similar symptoms. With this disease being a part of the GI tract, there are many signs that can lead up to Crohn’s. An individual with Crohn’s disease could have been obtained through genetics or the environment, which could lead to many other complications that can affect the entire digestive tract.

One night, I woke up to my sister screaming; her body was drenched in sweat, and she repeatedly said, “I can’t move my legs”. I was young then and didn’t understand what she meant. I slowly lifted the covers off of her legs. They looked perfectly normal to me, so I asked her to wiggle her toes. Thirty seconds went by, and no movement occurred; she says, “I really can’t move my legs”.

It was the middle of summer when it happened. I was about 9 years old and my mom and dad had just called me into my mom’s room. I had had a medical procedure about a couple of weeks before hand so I wasn’t surprised when they said it was about the results. They started talking to me about the results when they finally told me the main thing that had showed up.

As a dedicated student, dismissal from Kaplan University has been an eye-opener. While I blame no one other than myself, it has been the hardest year of my life. My education has been hindered this last term due to a family illness. I failed to acknowledge the importance of my studies and allowed the sickness of my grandfather, my caregiver, to effect me. My grandfather moved in with me from Arizona to be closer to Sloan Kettering Hospital after being diagnosed with Lymphoma.

While this was expected, my emotional and mental health also took a toll. I was drained and overwhelmed after the continual spew of information from the doctors. The feelings of sickness and worry was making it hard to do much of anything, especially when at school. It was evident that constantly thinking about the problems that could arise was not helping me complete everything that had to be done. My life continued to spiral as I struggled to keep up with my physical and emotional health on top of the mountain of work expected from me.

“Too much stress has many effects on the body and mind,” Mary Alvord, psychologist, says. ” Most of the students surveyed reported that homework sessions consumed more than three hours of their time per night. Of those same students surveyed “twenty-six percent noted that they had been diagnosed with depression—over four times the national average of 6 percent.” The stress of the students today is being compared to that of a patient bound in an insane asylum. These students come home from long days work in school and probably even a long shift of manual labor, disregarding their health most times.

argued in her opening statement Tuesday that Kohr was negligent, and said his pre-existing condition caused his problems” (Associated Press 1). This means Kohr Crohn’s disease was a long term, and extensive problem that started before the spilled coffee. Also he was negligent, because he spilled the coffee, and did not take responsibility for his own actions. The way Kohr believed his injuries would be justified was by filing a lawsuit, and seeking $750,000 dollars. Crohn’s disease was already a serious condition for Kohr over time even if they coffee didn’t spill on him he would eventually need surgery.

From those life style, I learn that health is most valuable than any others. And now I would like to share some of my illness and how I get over from my illness with different life patterns. First, I had acute pancreatitis when I was three years old. My mother said that I vomited everything that I ate for three to four days and one day I was throwing up and crying for whole night.

Over the course of my life, I have had my own experiences with psychological disorders that I never completely understood. Chapter 14 titled Psychological Disorders, covers the range of mental illnesses from the causes, treatments, to the differences between them. In my personal life, I have a long history of being around those affected by mental illness. These people range from my parents to my first roommate in college and myself, and through this chapter, I 've found a better understanding of these psychological disorders. The first of the psychological disorders I’ve come in contact with is bipolar disorder.