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jbird_75
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Hi Ya'll,
My name is Jess, in all honesty, what brought me to this forum initially, was a negative experience I had recently. I am a 33 yr old female and was diagnosed with moderate to severe Crohn's disease 3 years ago, with some ulcering. It wasn't a huge shock as I've been symptomatic all my life, and my Mom has lived with Severe Crohn's and Severe Ulcertive Colitis all her life. I've watched a many of surgeries come and go with Mom and lots of painful years. But the diagnosis still contained a whallop. I've kinda been skimming along acting like it's not a huge issue and keepin' it on the downlow. Until a little over a week ago. I began a new job 6 months ago that I love, I work with only 3 others at my branch and they are men. I had commented some about my illness, but not much at all, my fault. I was afraid I'd be met with the attitude that I was unable to accomplish my job. I do a great job, work my hardest, and managed to function even through my flare-ups.
Recently though I felt a severe one coming on, for a couple of weeks I was in the bathroom ALOT, running late for work, missing longer than suspected on my errand runs when I had to stop for a restroom, the whole spill. Finally, this past sunday night, wham, the big one hit me and I couldn't make it into work for two days. High fever, severe cramping, listless, weak, dizzy, joint pain. When I returned to work, sick as a dog on the third day I might add. I was met with cold shoulders, they were blatantly ignoring me, I even got a whole entire dirty look. I went to my office and cried. They were lucky I made it in on that day, much less for the rest of the week. My boss even called in the regional manager to "talk" to me because(for the first time since I began) I called in sick. I had been sick with bronchitis and strep throat 2 months before and never missed a day. Crohn's ignorance is all I could think, I was hurt, angry, sick and just plain peed off. If I could have gotten my hands on a "Crohn's for Dummies" workbook, they'd have been sorry
The regional manager told me that one of the guys in particular was saying I called in so that I could "extend my vacation" or "party" because my fiance and I had gone to the beach that weekend and they were aware that we were going because I told them I was excited about it on Friday. Actually our mini vacay was cut short because I got sick.
Anyhoo, it jolted me into internet searches for info and advice for myself, and people I've kept in the dark about this disease. This is when I found you guys. I talked to a particular "old timer" on the forum...lol..he's gonna kill me, and he settled my fears about sharing on the forum. I'm glad I found ya'll, this forum seems mighty supportive, just what I was looking for.
Glad to make your aquaintence fellow gut bubblers.......
Jess.
My name is Jess, in all honesty, what brought me to this forum initially, was a negative experience I had recently. I am a 33 yr old female and was diagnosed with moderate to severe Crohn's disease 3 years ago, with some ulcering. It wasn't a huge shock as I've been symptomatic all my life, and my Mom has lived with Severe Crohn's and Severe Ulcertive Colitis all her life. I've watched a many of surgeries come and go with Mom and lots of painful years. But the diagnosis still contained a whallop. I've kinda been skimming along acting like it's not a huge issue and keepin' it on the downlow. Until a little over a week ago. I began a new job 6 months ago that I love, I work with only 3 others at my branch and they are men. I had commented some about my illness, but not much at all, my fault. I was afraid I'd be met with the attitude that I was unable to accomplish my job. I do a great job, work my hardest, and managed to function even through my flare-ups.
Recently though I felt a severe one coming on, for a couple of weeks I was in the bathroom ALOT, running late for work, missing longer than suspected on my errand runs when I had to stop for a restroom, the whole spill. Finally, this past sunday night, wham, the big one hit me and I couldn't make it into work for two days. High fever, severe cramping, listless, weak, dizzy, joint pain. When I returned to work, sick as a dog on the third day I might add. I was met with cold shoulders, they were blatantly ignoring me, I even got a whole entire dirty look. I went to my office and cried. They were lucky I made it in on that day, much less for the rest of the week. My boss even called in the regional manager to "talk" to me because(for the first time since I began) I called in sick. I had been sick with bronchitis and strep throat 2 months before and never missed a day. Crohn's ignorance is all I could think, I was hurt, angry, sick and just plain peed off. If I could have gotten my hands on a "Crohn's for Dummies" workbook, they'd have been sorry
The regional manager told me that one of the guys in particular was saying I called in so that I could "extend my vacation" or "party" because my fiance and I had gone to the beach that weekend and they were aware that we were going because I told them I was excited about it on Friday. Actually our mini vacay was cut short because I got sick.Anyhoo, it jolted me into internet searches for info and advice for myself, and people I've kept in the dark about this disease. This is when I found you guys. I talked to a particular "old timer" on the forum...lol..he's gonna kill me, and he settled my fears about sharing on the forum. I'm glad I found ya'll, this forum seems mighty supportive, just what I was looking for.
Glad to make your aquaintence fellow gut bubblers.......
Jess.
