I've been wanting to share this for some time now. I think it has been almost a month that the symptoms of Crohn's aren't really bothering me. If before I couldn't manage my day because I wasn't sure if the next hour I was going to the bathroom, or feel something weird and put a hand in my belly.
But things have changed for the better in a way or another, and I truly feel like I'm progressing. But I should explain better!
Back when I was diagnosed with Crohn's, I already had some damn painful symptoms and God, I felt like I would die in a few years. I also had no dreams, no idea of what I would do in college, or if I would go to college at all. In Brazil, it is not hard to get in some fields if you study enough. I got myself enrolled in a Bachelor of Technology for Computer Systems, but I had no idea why.
I was depressed, had no motivation to seek help for give myself a walk for some exercise. I felt weak.
Now, I feel like I have everything answered to me in a way or another. I am now someone with very ambitious plans in the field of Information Technology, started playing Ingress to gamify my exercise and I reviewed my nutrition. Step by step, things are just getting better. Sure, sometimes I'll eat something that I believe it's okay, only to go "dump' for 30 minutes. But I mean, I don't feel the same pain anymore. This bitch of a disease that is Crohn's, whom I once I believed was trapping me, now I can manage it's aspects. I don't feel lost.
I just really felt like sharing this so perhaps someone reads and try something, or just feel inspired. Surely I still have so many steps to go, but the steps made so far show me that I'm not walking in some dark road, but a clearer road with a lot of bumps and cracks.
But things have changed for the better in a way or another, and I truly feel like I'm progressing. But I should explain better!
Back when I was diagnosed with Crohn's, I already had some damn painful symptoms and God, I felt like I would die in a few years. I also had no dreams, no idea of what I would do in college, or if I would go to college at all. In Brazil, it is not hard to get in some fields if you study enough. I got myself enrolled in a Bachelor of Technology for Computer Systems, but I had no idea why.
I was depressed, had no motivation to seek help for give myself a walk for some exercise. I felt weak.
Now, I feel like I have everything answered to me in a way or another. I am now someone with very ambitious plans in the field of Information Technology, started playing Ingress to gamify my exercise and I reviewed my nutrition. Step by step, things are just getting better. Sure, sometimes I'll eat something that I believe it's okay, only to go "dump' for 30 minutes. But I mean, I don't feel the same pain anymore. This bitch of a disease that is Crohn's, whom I once I believed was trapping me, now I can manage it's aspects. I don't feel lost.
I just really felt like sharing this so perhaps someone reads and try something, or just feel inspired. Surely I still have so many steps to go, but the steps made so far show me that I'm not walking in some dark road, but a clearer road with a lot of bumps and cracks.
