I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me.

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.

We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease.

Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.

Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever.

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.