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Childhood IBD, Surgery and an Ostomy: Kristin’s long road forward
In this episode of the Talking Sh*t podcast, I speak with Kristin, who was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at just nine years old after months of severe diarrhea, urgency, weight loss, and bleeding. What followed was an 87-day hospital stay, a long stretch of steroid dependence, and a childhood shaped by chronic illness long before she could understand what it meant.
Diagnosed in elementary school and facing surgery as a teenager, Kristin opens up about growing up with IBD, missing school, struggling with identity, and living through colectomy, a J-pouch, and eventually a permanent ostomy…
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