Joe takes his CD head-on
"What I like is that my doctor has a plan of attack about my disease…it’s always 'What is our next step?'"
Joe, a 30-year old basketball coach from California, has had Crohn’s for five years and it is one of the most severe cases that his doctor, Dr. M, has ever seen. Surgery after surgery, when Joe gets out of the hospital, he has complications.
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Because of Joe’s constant complications, it has been hard for Dr. M to get Joe’s Crohn’s into remission. In the last five years, Joe has gone through more surgeries than most other Crohn’s patients go through in their entire lives. But recently, Joe was able to get his disease under control with medication treatment and with any luck his Crohn’s will soon be in remission.
Joe and Dr. M have created an open and honest email exchange about his condition over the years. Joe often emails Dr. M to discuss things like flare-ups, treatment side effects and surgery complications. This has led to Dr. M and Joe to actively pursue methods for fighting his Crohn’s and will be instrumental in finally putting his Crohn’s into remission.
