I hadn’t been thinking of dating and first kisses when I had decided to have surgery, and to be perfectly honest, had not thought twice about it.To use a phrase I have since heard, those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.In the months after divorcing my wife, and prior to becoming sick, my weeks were bifurcated.Half the week, I was a single father working hard to provide a stable home for my children in the midst of an unstable time.A recent survey done by Crohn’s and Colitis UK acknowledged that patients may even be giving up sport and exercise due to their illness.Due to the wide variance of Crohn’s symptoms, there is no definitive cure or treatment for the disease.

Crohn’s disease may affect a patient’s ability to work, support themselves or even go about their normal lives.Although the change seems so great to oneself, most others do not see the ostomy as changing in any major way the person they love.Harmony within oneself precedes harmony in a relationship.When Amy was a child, after her father was diagnosed with the debilitating illness, her family went bankrupt.“Video from the farm when I was running away in the cornfield and my dad was taunting me because I wanted him to come with me. But today I got to buy it back for him,” Amy captioned a video on her Instagram. Other people are like, ‘Should we go to Hawaii on vacation?