Faith Through the Journey

These are the kinds of days I really hate having this disease. In the many years I’ve dealt with this, I’ve kept track of where restrooms are in every store, restaurant and hotel lobby. Today I was thinking about the day we went to the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl game–January 2 of this year. Being in crowds that large and being desperate to find a restroom is one of the “joys” of this disease. Before we went to our seats I made sure I knew how to find the closest ladies room and by the end of the game, I could get there in record time! The only real moment of panic came when they closed it a few minutes before the game was over… They redirected me, much to my relief. Then we waited, and waited, and waited some more with 94,000 of our closest friends to get onto the shuttle buses that would take us to our cars. There were no restrooms on the buses… My doctor told me I should have pushed everyone else out of the way to get to the front of the line! It just wasn’t in me to do that, especially when no one really knew where those lines began and ended. With fans from both teams waiting in line and the game having been a very close one, I was afraid it might cause a riot if we tried to get to what we thought was the front of one of those lines! In spite of having one of “those” days, it was a really nice memory for our family.

We are very hopeful that my interior landscape can be repaired again soon so that I don’t have very many more of “those” days. Because of  multiple surgeries my system will never be like “original equipment” but having less pain and a nearly normally running digestive system will be a great deal better than what I have now. When we get to heaven, I hope we won’t have need of our digestive systems. If we do, I know I’ll get a brand new one–with no Crohn’s Disease!