Today is the last day of TS Awareness Month and I want to thank all of you who have come along for the journey. Today I'll be talking about getting connected with your local TS Chapter as well as the national and global TS network and how significant it was for both me and my … Continue reading Turner Syndrome Awareness Month: The importance of connecting with your local TS Chapter and beyond

If you've been a regular follower of my blog then you know that I talk a lot about my experience with the autoimmune condition Crohn's disease. However, Inflammatory Bowel Disease is only one of the many autoimmune diseases that girls with TS are at an increased risk for. Others include autoimmune disease of the liver, … Continue reading Turner Syndrome Awareness Month: TS and Autoimmune Disease

One of the most obvious signs of Turner Syndrome is a decreased rate of growth due to a lack of response to the body's natural production of growth hormone. The average final height of girls with TS without growth hormone supplementation is around 4'6-4'8 which is why it is technically considered a form of proportionate … Continue reading Turner Syndrome Awareness Month: TS and Growth Hormone

Did you know that February is not only Turner Syndrome Awareness Month but also Heart Month at BC Children's and other hospitals around the world? This is quite fitting because many girls with TS also deal with heart defects such as a bicuspid aortic valve, coarctation (narrowing) of the aorta, and aortic dissection or splitting/tearing … Continue reading Turner Syndrome Awareness Month: TS and Heart Defects

One of the biggest struggles for those of us living with Crohn's and Colitis is our relationship with food. I would like to preface this post by saying that there is a lot of debate amongst medical professionals as to whether diet plays a role in IBD or not and so a lot of GIs … Continue reading IBD Awareness Month Blog 2: IBD and Diet

November is Crohn's and Colitis Awareness Month in Canada and I thought I would start off my telling my diagnosis story. My journey with IBD started in Grade 11/12 (although I didn't know it at the time). My earliest symptoms were food aversions, early satiety, random fevers, and random bouts of cramping and loose stools. … Continue reading IBD Awareness Month Blog 1: My Diagnosis Story

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.  Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." James 1:2-4 Although I love the above verse and think its essential to the … Continue reading Dealing With Growing Pains

Lately I have been finding myself struggling with guilt, specifically guilt over my seemingly growing inability to stop committing the same sins over and over again.  I look at a passage like Romans 15:1-3, which states that, "We must not just please ourselves.  We should help others do what is right and build them up in the … Continue reading No Guilt In Life…

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to … Continue reading For Everything There Is A Season…

As you all know, May 14th was Mother's Day and since then I've been thinking a lot about my relationship with my own mother.  My dad did a Mother's Day sermon which focused on these verses from Proverbs, Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Honor … Continue reading Honour Your Father and Mother