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Posted 4/6/2014 10:15 PM (GMT 0)
Is the purple ribbon typically used to signify Crohn's and colitis?
Posted 4/6/2014 10:46 PM (GMT 0)
Colon cancer used to be brown...now it's navy blue.
Posted 4/6/2014 11:13 PM (GMT 0)
Lol
Posted 4/6/2014 11:38 PM (GMT 0)
We should get to pick our own colors. Brown and red seems appropriate.
Posted 4/6/2014 11:46 PM (GMT 0)
:) Lolollll... Thanks for making me laugh ;)

Post Edited (Chantrelle99) : 4/6/2014 7:18:24 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 4/7/2014 12:51 AM (GMT 0)
Brown and red would look nice as a ribbon.. haha.. the red can be a deeper red to outline the ribbon and the brown can be a tad bit lighter but poo color still. ;)
Posted 4/7/2014 1:45 AM (GMT 0)
Kind of a tangent, but anyone think that companies will start to monetize on our suffering one day in the same pink-ribbon fashion they've been doing for breast cancer? With the burgeoning rates of IBD, I think it is all but inevitable. I can visualize it clearly now: buy yoplait yogurt with the brown or colon-shaped ribbon and 2 cents goes to CCFA or some other joke of an organization "researching" and "racing" for cures.

BTW, this is the documentary that made me question where my money was going. The breakdown is such that only a dismal portion goes to actually finding the cure (and not just the same iterations of treatments).

To stay on topic - the above is kind of why I think a logo would be counter-intuitive for us. Not that I'd be able to design one anyway, as my artistic skills are non-existent. Nothing, IMO, can adequately depict what UC is and the suffering it brings. Plus, I'd be kind of embarrassed explaining to other people if they asked about it - "umm yeah, it's a disease where I poop my pants all the time".

Post Edited (StealthGuardian) : 4/6/2014 7:57:48 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 4/7/2014 2:06 AM (GMT 0)
Beware of Yoplait Light Yogurt - it contains aspartame. I realize you were joking Stealth Garden about Yoplait, I imagine you only have organic yogurt in your fridge, if so, that's wise.
Posted 4/7/2014 2:46 AM (GMT 0)
Stealth, I'm glad I dislike Yoplait. I can't stand when companies run this market schemes to collect money for who knows what. Besides that, luckily when I explain UC to my friends and family, I say that I have to use the bathroom a lot. I haven't had enough accidents to include that in my explanation.
Posted 4/7/2014 12:30 PM (GMT 0)

Marsky said...
Beware of Yoplait Light Yogurt - it contains aspartame. I realize you were joking Stealth Garden about Yoplait, I imagine you only have organic yogurt in your fridge, if so, that's wise.

Yes. Sheep yogurt and kefir straight from the local farm, my dear. smilewinkgrin

I used to eat yoplait on occasion in the past though. It's basically a sugar bomb bereft of any kind of nutrition. Kind of curious why it needs corn sugar in it as well. Just another example of the food industry taking a perfectly fine product and making it disease causing. I definitely did not know they put aspartame in the light version of it so thanks for telling me. The additives are cringe-worthy.

katarzyna said...
Stealth, I'm glad I dislike Yoplait. I can't stand when companies run this market schemes to collect money for who knows what. Besides that, luckily when I explain UC to my friends and family, I say that I have to use the bathroom a lot. I haven't had enough accidents to include that in my explanation.

At my worst (and for many others), it was so undignified that I did not want to exist. I wouldn't sport the logo with pride or anything like that because most people would not understand what I went through.
Posted 4/7/2014 2:18 PM (GMT 0)
Ive seen purple ribbons and butterflies

personally.., its all dumb. I did a suicide awareness walk and everything was purple. Lupus is usually purple as well,


I like the two tone purple guts shaped like a heart. Its hard to cutify a bloody diarrhea disease... but I did like that. Otherwise im making pendant/charm/jewelry and focusing on a heart/hope ribbon, as well as a spoon (spoonies unite!!) And a feather... all metal, possibly adding a smalk purple gem or bead,

ive also seen a upright stick figure I loved like thid: )$(o but the money sign is actually a red squiggle. Id love that as a tattoo.
Posted 4/7/2014 3:00 PM (GMT 0)
I've seen that stick figure with the ribbon like gut for a stomach on the web a couple of different times. Is that an official symbol for Crohn's & Colitis?

I don't like the purple ribbon personally just because like others have said it's used to symbolize other things as well..
Posted 4/7/2014 4:47 PM (GMT 0)
Last I heard, the IBD "color" was purple (my favorite color ironically) should be brown lol!! And "Gutsy" is the symbol for IBD, he's a little guy made of intestine, I bought a bracelet from the CCFC with Gutsy on it and it has silver and purple beads on it, it's quite nice actually, think I bought it for 10 bucks, all proceeds going to find the cure for IBD, this was about 11 years ago now.
Posted 4/7/2014 10:56 PM (GMT 0)
The purple ribbon is to signify "Hidden diseases". I am not aware if IBD has their "own" yet or not.

Personally, I like purple and like butterflies which is why I have 3 butterfly and ribbon tattoos. Uc is not my only "Hidden disease" so I think the purple ribbon suits me fine :)
Posted 4/7/2014 11:01 PM (GMT 0)
truthfully, the ribbon things kind of sketch me out... EVERYONE has a ribbon nowadays, you name the cause. I'm a cynic, I see them as a way to make money. Those stupid pink ribbons are all over the place, & barely any funds go to breast cancer research. I do like the multi-colored autism one, for esthetic reasons alone. And I got a navy blue "Adopt a Pet" ribbon magnet from the ASPCA in the mail, I threw it on my car... Is there even an IBD symbol? A toilet??? Now that would be fitting. Screw the ribbons, you know we'd all use it for TP if the need arose!
Posted 4/7/2014 11:03 PM (GMT 0)
Eva....or how about ribbons made out of toilet paper instead?? :) Multi-purpose!
Posted 4/7/2014 11:07 PM (GMT 0)
Not 100% relevant, but I saw this logo on a plumber's van when on a road trip years ago. Maybe we could tweak this to our need LOLOL!

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/1681/turdbustersef9.jpg
Posted 4/7/2014 11:11 PM (GMT 0)
Haha! Now that's what I'm talking about.... I mean, you see every color ribbon all over the place & havce no idea what most of them stand for! I guess we could make the IBD ribbon out of actual TP??? A nice fluffy white one??? Red, you are totally on to something here...!!! tongue
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