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.

I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.

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 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.

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

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

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