August update

Hi everyone!!

Just thought I should update my situation of late, and make a shout out to any of the med students from today's lecture, if any of you check out my blog :P

I'm doing pretty well after surgery! I still can't lift anything really heavy without it feeling like it's kind of pulling at my stomach muscles, but I suppose that's just something I'll have to get used to. My energy level is really good, and I haven't really had too much recurrence of my symptoms so far. I get the occasional pain, but Dr Kaplan says that's likely because they cut through nerves for my surgery (though he'll know for sure when I have my colonoscopy on Nov. 25). I'm still on Imuran and it seems to be working okay!

Also, Kyle and I got engaged in June, and are getting married in November- woot! So that colonoscopy will be about two weeks after we get married, and a week after the honeymoon, lol... what a way to break in my new hubby to the world of Crohn's.

In other news, Dr. Kaplan asked me to speak at a lecture for his 1st year med students, which was today. The class was pretty big, I'm terrible at guessing numbers but I'm gonna say 100-150 students. It was lots of fun actually, me and another lady named Tammy got to tell about our experiences with Crohn's (with mics and being videotaped and broadcast to an auxiliary room even), and were asked lots of questions by the students. It was a lot of fun- even though it was a bit embarrassing to talk about these things with that many strangers :P

I had a quick appointment afterwards with Dr Kaplan, in a cafeteria of all places, since he didn't want to make me come up again next week if I didn't have to. So I'm just staying on Imuran and waiting for my colonoscopy in a couple of months, and that's about it! :)

Leanne