I’ll be updating this blog shortly as many things have happened and I’m still trying to wrap my head around them and find doctors who are qualified to make the correct diagnosis that may explain why all my organ systems seem to be affected. For now, I have updated the GP INFO page with a new introduction to the life someone with GP/CIP or any digestive disorder lives with day-to-day. It is lengthy but well worth the read if you are truly curious. It will help you try to understand but we all know that until it happens to you, complete understanding will never be possible. We, as a group, would not wish that on our worst enemy. I hope everyone is having good tummy days and are with doctors who really do care for them and do everything in their power to make them well, even if it means sending them to someone else for proper diagnosis as it might be beyond their scope of knowledge and understanding.

Good luck to all of you. I think of you often and you are all in my hearts and keep me going. You really are my inspiration for putting my story out to the world for it is by these words, patients become stronger and wiser in their disease, a disease that is so very much misunderstood and often underestimated and even mocked. We have to ban together to make ourselves heard and this is one way I think it can be done. Sharing stories helps us find ways to help ourselves in ways we never thought of before. Continue to read, research, share and post so newly diagnosed or those diagnosed for years but had no one to talk to can find peace in the knowledge that they aren’t crazy; this disease and those it cause are real and sometimes it is us, the patients, that are the only ways to help progress in the positive direction in terms of a cure or even treatment of symptoms. I hope you are all doing well and keeping your tummy troubles at bay as the summer quickly approaches. I hope you can enjoy it with family and friends without the extra burden of this and other diseases. I love you all and think of you often. Keep fighting. Our battle has not yet been won.

I have other news and a new diagnosis, one that some who have friended me on Facebook already know of, but I will explain it in greater detail here and what it all means when it isn’t so late. For now I will leave with a picture. Good night everyone. Rest well! <3

She knew I needed her most – even if I was completely knocked out after three days of no sleep thanks to the Ritalin they made me take after 9:00pm each night…She stayed by my side the whole time. Best dog in the world. My princess.

Love you always and forever,
Kirby

People do not cry because they are weak, but because they have been strong for too long.