I was diagnosed with 'Crohn's Disease with Crohn's Colitis', a form of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) on September 1, 2013. I was 20 and about to begin the final year of my undergraduate degree. I recovered within months, and all was well again. It was my relapse...
I come from a hyper-stoic Polish family by way of Chicago. You. Do. Not. Complain. Period. So decades of “potty problems” bred inattentiveness in class, crappy (NPI) grades and therefore a 3rd rate secondary education. That amounted to jobs I could manage as opposed...