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**I’ve partnered with the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) to bring you this blog post. All opinions and personal experiences expressed are my own

On the day of the 6th Annual Gutless and Glamorous Fundraising Soiree I’d pretty much been on the verge of tears all that day. To me, it seemed as if nothing was going as planned

All my life I've held onto the mantra that everything happens for a reason. I mean it has to right? And for people like me, who live with debilitating pain day in and day out, we have to have something, something to try to make sense of it all

After seeing doctor after doctor, trying to get help for my new diagnosis, after coming to the realization that I will have to have another major surgery,…again, one doctor told me that he couldn't help me. I wasn’t upset, I wasn’t mad; I wasn’t even frustrated because you see the thing was I respected his candor