hronic illness is a life sentence, right? That’s how I saw it when I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis (UC), a form of irritable bowel disease (IBD) in the summer of 2022. It was a late diagnosis, and by 27 I thought I’d pretty much missed the boat on childhood chronic illnesses. Unfortunately, I was wrong. As a fully grown adult, I had to come to terms with the bewildering fact that my immune system was attacking itself. And that was a hard pill to swallow because I felt so unbelievably betrayed by my own body. It wasn’t doing what it was supposed to do, and because of that
