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Warrior Wednesday Feature: Tasha

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Let’s welcome this week’s warrior, Tasha!     HEY EVERYONE!! My name is La’Tasha but you can call me Tasha. I’m from Cleveland, Ohio. I have Crohn’s Disease and a permanent ostomy. I was diagnosed in November of 2004. The journey to be diagnosed was long for me. The wait to be diagnosed almost killed me. … Read more

Warrior Wednesday Feature: Jessica

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Let’s welcome this week’s warrior, Jessica!  My name is Jessica and I am from Athens, GA, but moved a year ago to Coastal Georgia and loving every minute of it! I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis in February of 2021. My last semester of college (October 2020), I started to have bloody bms, urgency, and … Read more

Warrior Wednesday Feature: Lee

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Let’s welcome this week’s warrior, Lee!  Hey Besties, I’m Lee! I live in a small-ish town about 1hr north of Toronto, Ontario Canada. I started collecting chronic illnesses in 2018 and I like to think that since then, I’ve gotten quite the collection! The main star of the show is my Crohn’s-Colitis diagnosis, the road … Read more

Warrior Wednesday Feature: Kaitlyn

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Let’s welcome this weeks warrior, Kaitlyn!  My name is Kaitlyn, but a lot of the chronic illness community knows my handle @trusting.my.gut on Instagram and Tik Tok.  I’m originally from Atlanta, GA. I completed my undergraduate degree in December in South Carolina and currently attend nursing school in Tennessee.  I have several different chronic illnesses. … Read more

Warrior Wednesday Feature: Cj

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Let’s welcome this weeks warrior, Cj!  My name is Carlos Cabrera but I go by Cj Papuro. I’m from the Dominican and live in Virginia. I have Ulcerative Colitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis. I was Diagnosed with UC in 2018, I was misdiagnosed with hemorrhoids 2017 and it wasn’t until I received a colonoscopy that … Read more

Warrior Wednesday Feature: Crystal

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Let’s welcome this weeks warrior, Crystal! Crystal McAfee, or GutsyStrong as she has become known, was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. She now resides in Mississauga with her two sons.  She is the President of the Peel Chapter of Crohn’s and Colitis Canada and is a vocal IBD advocate who has been featured in … Read more

SCD Ingredients: Squash

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Squash’s History:  Squash has been around for about 8,000 years and was first cultivated in Mexico. To put this into perspective, this is about 4,000 years before the cultivation of corn in the same areas. Squash is native to the America’s being grown all the way from Canada down to Argentina. Native Americans grew several … Read more