Posted 1/25/2011 3:42 AM (GMT 0)
I have had UC for about 17 years. It took me a long time to accept it and decide to live and really deal with it. Then I got my life back in order and dealt with flares as they came. I tried to be the best mom/wife that I could through all the hard times and really felt like I had things figured out. I came to a point where I could be thankful my condtion wasn't worse than UC. Then almost two years ago I got pregnant with our third child, had my regular flare during pregnacy and continued to spiral out of control since. I feel like I have a whole new illness. I am being forced to come to terms with a whole new level of acceptance. I now have pyoderma - the skin lesions you can get with UC, and I am not responding well to any of the medications. The inflamation just refuses to subside. I just got home from a three week hospital stay. My nine year old is helping to take care of me. To hear that some one would say "just" colitis makes me want to cry.