College With A Chronic Illness

I spent two years at the local community college and then transferred to a school I wasn’t even sure I was smart enough to get into. It became my dream college; the University of Pittsburgh. The opportunities for me to pursue my passions were endless and the city only enhanced my ability to take full advantage of everything I could possibly balance on my plate.

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Stomas and Self-Love

There are many reasons why getting a permanent feeding tube is scary. There’s the obvious; like having a weird foreign object protruding from your abdomen to feed you, and there’s the fact that your body is about to forever change.