I tell myself the same thing every day Jack. Between that and my daughter it’s one of the few things that keeps me going.

Anita, I honestly can’t imagine living with Tourette’s Syndrome. I worked for NYSARC(It is a program for the mentally handicapped and disabled)and I encountered a few people with Tourette’s. It truly was heartbreaking to see them and I could see their frustration sometimes with how they couldn’t control the things they were saying sometimes. I have a couple tics myself but they are muscle tics that are caused by medications.(Oh joy…) It sounds like we both have our own different versions of hell if I may say so…I really can’t imagine what it must be like with your IBS as well. I do know someone with crohns but I don’t know if it is similar to that. I hope you can find some sort of relief at least sometimes 😞 a friend of mine in high school became anorexic after some classmates started bullying her and she ended up getting hospitalized for a few months as a result. I haven’t seen her since.
May I ask what triggered yours?
Today I am on my way to get a lumbar puncture again and I am scared out of my wits because I know how bad it’s going to hurt…plus I know how much it’s costing me monetary wise…sometimes I wonder why I am being put through all this. If this is all some sort of test I would think by now I would have passed…
I would have responded sooner to all of this but for some reason I wasn’t notified that I had responses 😞