I had experienced chronic G.I.
reactions before, but nothing like this.
I was newly single and 26 years old.
Uncertainty and fear flooded my world that night in that small hospital room.
We prayed together for relief from the 20+ bloody bms daily paired with severe G.I.
pain which required 3gs of IV Dilaudid daily to get through the agony.
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Throughout my healing journey, I got the courage to start dating again.
Shell surely run away and make fun of me with her friends now.
As I marched on, a bit of serendipity entered my dating life.
How funny life is.
The pain had turned to purpose.
For the first time in my life, I knew what I wanted and what I stood for.
Immersed in a new life perspective, I met my wife on a dating app, in January 2019.
Hinge was the apps name.
She had never had chronic G.I.
disease much less heard of Crohns Disease or Ulcerative Colitis.
We both had pain which brought clarity and then conviction to our lives.
After two dates, we both deleted Hinge off our phones and focused solely on each other.
I had met a partner I was falling in love with.
After three months, we moved in together.
Within seven months of dating, we got pregnant with our first son!!
We enjoy eating organic local foods and cooking at home.
We are both gluten and dairy-free, ingesting limited processed foods, and minimal sugar intake.
So the question remains, how on earth could such a beautiful marriage sprout from such a chronic nightmare?
Perhaps a bit of serendipity mixed with the harsh lessons of life is the journey God gives us all.
We learn the deepest from our pain.
We manifest a life we deem purposeful.
