This book is my personal story of experiences with Crohn's disease over the past 47 years. The first five chapters delve into what I learned and the mistakes I made from a decade's long delay in diagnosis. This includes how I choose and work with my doctors, how to speak with others about Crohn's, the variety of medications, diets, and alternative therapies I tried, and how I learned to approach surgery to achieve the best results. While I attempted to manage this decades long cruel disease with pills, diet, and exercises, it was never curative and I was not able to maintain remission. The...