spoon theory

super cool. we all know how hard it can be sometimes to get through to people to really explain to them what it is like living with crohn's disease, especially during the bad times when you are in a flare. i think it is a great way to explain to others what living with the disease (any chronic disease really) is like on a daily basis as the example gets the person invested in daily decisions instead of listening to your story or a list of symptoms. most people take their health for granted so they have no frame of reference for what it is like to live with a chronic disease. this may give them one.

Bravo. I showed it to my husband and i think he has a better understanding of what i am dealing with now. he doesn't realize what is going on because i have refused to slow down in front of him and our young boys but I have paid dearly for that decision. he is now thinking of all the times in the summer that i asked him to take the boys to baseball or skating and he refused because he had something "more important". I think he realizes that those are the days that i barely made it through my work day and just wanted to curl up in a ball and cry. i am going to share this with my entire family who have no grasp of the nature of CD and all of the complications that can arise from it. I am so glad that I found this forum!

Great story! Thanks for sharing. I might have to show this to some of my friends.