My name is Sarah.
I am in my mid-twenties.
I am a single mom.
I have Crohns Disease.

Crohns Disease is an auto-immune disorder that attacks the entire digestive tract causing inflammation which leads  to ulcers, malnutrition,  obstructions, fistulas and a host of other horrible symptoms.  It is a life long disease and as of right now, there is no cure.  There are some drugs out there, some very new some very old, that treat this disease but unfortunately in this day and age it’s a battle.  A person with Crohns Disease has to choose between weathering the symptoms of the actual illness or the horrible side effects of the drugs ie: organ failure, arthritis, and a collage of symptoms I hope the rest of the world can manage to do with out.

Every single day you see awareness around you, but unfortunately the majority of it is for Breast Cancer, Autism and the like.  I am not down playing these horrible diseases and afflictions in the least, but I am determined to bring Crohns Disease to the forefront.  There are so many people out there suffering and suffering in silence.  We need to be heard.

We need a cure.