A woman knocked on my door one day, asking to use the washroom. I don’t remember if she had a card that indicated she suffered from Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), but that’s probably the only reason someone would ask to use a stranger’s bathroom. That’s the nature of IBD; you can’t be certain when you’ll [...]
Tag Archives: Crohn's
Eat for the cure ’09
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is three times more common in the Canadian population than multiple sclerosis or HIV, and about as common as Type 1 diabetes. But you don’t hear as much about it because, well, who wants to talk about something that happens to your bowels? I’ve written before about IBD, specifically Crohn’s disease, [...]
Get gutsy for a good cause
November is Crohn’s and colitis awareness month, or as the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of Canada likes to call it, “Get Gutsy Month.” (There is a similar foundation “of America” but they don’t appear to be going gutsy this month.) So this is my public awareness message for an autoimmune disorder that hits not just [...]
Eat for the cure
If you are in one of the 460 communities across Canada that has an M&M Meats Shop, please consider stopping by on Saturday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. That’s when franchisees are grilling hamburgers and hot dogs for the 20th annual Charity BBQ Day, raising money for research to find a cure for Crohn’s [...]
Support research to cure IBD
Most of us find it far too easy to gain weight. Son#2 has the opposite problem; he struggles to gain or maintain weight, because he has Crohn’s Disease. This form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects the digestive system and causes the intestinal tissue to become inflamed, form sores and bleed easily. The nutrients from [...]
More on the SuperGala – they just don’t WANT to communicate!
I finally reached someone at the Grocery Foundation to find out about the SuperGala fundraiser for Crohn’s & Colitis. She told me “We do not advertise the gala because the tickets are sold through the retailers and not to the public. We only showcase the gala on the website after it’s over.” Upon further questioning, [...]
Fundraisers struggle to communicate
The Beach Boys are apparently playing at the Metro Convention Centre in Toronto tomorrow night for “the most successful fundraising gala in Canada.” It’s the SuperGala put on by the Grocery Industry Foundation…Together (GIFT), with half of the proceeds going to the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of Canada. They are hoping to raise $3,000 from [...]
