Despite ongoing struggles with colitis and sleep deprivation, I enjoyed a relaxing start to the month in Greece and a great stopover in London before returning home for immunotherapy.
Health Navigating my health this month felt like a constant balancing act. The colitis was significantly relieved during my time in Greece, though it never fully went away. It was not intensely painful but still managed to be a steady twenty-four-hour presence that "demanded" my attention. This combined with the process of coming off the steroids caused some unsettling weirdness with my resting heart rate and completely threw my body out of rhythm.
The ultimate casualty of all this was my sleep. Between the steroids keeping me wired and the colitis waking me up, I simply could not get enough rest. I found myself spending hours and hours just lying in bed trying to force my body to shut down. On a much brighter note, a delayed visit to the surgeon on my return to...
