Inspiring indeed! My wife works for the Crohns and Colitis foundation, and they do amazing work and raise tremendous amounts of awareness and research funds through the Team Challenge race events.
Certainly running isn’t for everyone, but it is for a great many!
Instead of tearing down the article, the diseases or the activity or running, we should laud people’s efforts to stay fit and help the those with these diseases and be as supportive as we can.
CCF also runs nationwide summer camps for kids who suffer from Crohns and IBD. Amazing kids who get the chance to realize they are not alone in their misery, and that they have a supportive network of caring people. Not easy to zip-line, swim and horseback ride with a colostomy bag.
They get to attend these camps because doctors and nurses and nutritionists and volunteer adults with Crohns or IBD, (or not), all volunteer their time to make the camps possible.
I offer my sincere appreciation to everyone involved.
[[CCF also runs nationwide summer camps for kids who suffer from Crohns and IBD. Amazing kids who get the chance to realize they are not alone in their misery, and that they have a supportive network of caring people. Not easy to zip-line, swim and horseback ride with a colostomy bag.
They get to attend these camps because doctors and nurses and nutritionists and volunteer adults with Crohns or IBD, (or not), all volunteer their time to make the camps possible.]]
That’s awesome- bowel problems are terribly taxing on folks, especially because they get very little nutrition when they are sick because what they eat goes through them so quickly- they miss out on lots of nutrients- and their growth is stunted, and they become outcasts in society really- “The sick kid” - it’s cool that they have a camp like this for these kids- helps give them a boost in morale I’m sure- a much needed boost-