It was two April’s ago I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. Since then I've been in the hospital where I have been placed on drugs that came with symptoms that caused me to gain excessive weight and mind complications such as paranoia. A few summers ago I fell into a depression and for a long time I believed I would never been the same, I labeled that as the time when the old Justin died.
During my period of pain and sadness I felt like I had no one to be truly there for me, to just talk with and express how I was feeling because my parents could never understand how metaphorically isolated I felt so I wallowed so much that it caused me to get dropped out of school for two months.
At the beginning of last year I decided it was enough and I decided to take my life back. I started working out and managed to lose about 40-50 pounds of weight. I'm off the drugs now so I no longer feel a cloud over my mind but I still take these things called maintenance drugs to keep my …show more content…
Thankfully, now everything is more or less healed and I look to a future out of Toronto for the independence and fresh starts with more important things on my mind.
Current day it is all but gone and I continue my path to becoming a doctor. My aim is to cure my illness so that no one may ever have to live through such hardships like my own. I still can never have a stomach pain without thinking of a worst-case situation for it will always be apart of me. Just recently the clinic I’m a patient at contacted my family telling us that my blood is now the best in the entire department, however, I used to think that it would forever be a nightmare that I could never escape, but if my experience can somehow benefit another, than I am content to live with
During my period of pain and sadness I felt like I had no one to be truly there for me, to just talk with and express how I was feeling because my parents could never understand how metaphorically isolated I felt so I wallowed so much that it caused me to get dropped out of school for two months.
At the beginning of last year I decided it was enough and I decided to take my life back. I started working out and managed to lose about 40-50 pounds of weight. I'm off the drugs now so I no longer feel a cloud over my mind but I still take these things called maintenance drugs to keep my …show more content…
Thankfully, now everything is more or less healed and I look to a future out of Toronto for the independence and fresh starts with more important things on my mind.
Current day it is all but gone and I continue my path to becoming a doctor. My aim is to cure my illness so that no one may ever have to live through such hardships like my own. I still can never have a stomach pain without thinking of a worst-case situation for it will always be apart of me. Just recently the clinic I’m a patient at contacted my family telling us that my blood is now the best in the entire department, however, I used to think that it would forever be a nightmare that I could never escape, but if my experience can somehow benefit another, than I am content to live with