I am so happy you are here!

My name is Katie! I have grown up in New England, USA my whole life but still really hate the cold. I am currently a fully remote Demand Planner at a medical distribution company, therefore I am also a bit of a Supply Chain junkie. I also am a writer, content creator, IBD warrior and advocate, and fellow lover of books.

My journey with Crohn’s Disease began when I was 10 years. The diagnosis process for me was luckily short and to the point, but the journey to my first remission was a long one. My first major bowel resection was when I was 15 years old. it was then I found out that I am not only prone to strictures, but fistulas, as well. From then on I knew that my battle with IBD would always be just a little harder than it needed to be. But I have always tried to get on in life without having it really stop me.

For me, high school didn’t start until I was 17 years old, since I was too sick when I was 14 years old to go in person. Plus I was homeschooled since I was 10, that couple with being too sick through my formative years, created the perfect disaster for this to happen. Being older led me to think differently about my experience, but it also create a gap in me peer relationships, and honestly was just plain confusing to me. But it was what I needed to do to get a piece of me to come alive after being so sick for so long.

College with IBD was difficult to say the least. It was filled with many life adjustments and re-examinings of how to take care of myself, and how to incorporate rest into a jam packed college schedule. My body forced me to really learn rest when it was my senior year and I was diagnosed with additional fistulas, leading to the placements of my setons.

Therefore I had to enter into the adulting chapter of my life with a Crohn’s complication, and the balancing act of learning how to juggle it on top of figuring out how to be a baddie in the corporate world. As time went on badass with a bad ass came to birth in my mind. Here to help document my journey muddling through the further balancing act. While keeping a bad ass attitude.