Hello. My name is Mary Beth Feldman. My husband has Crohn’s disease. He found out he had it through a secondary disease called pyoderma gangrenosum which he developed while trying to build our house on his own. (This was before we were married.) He worked full-time, would come home, and work late building the house in semi-rural Alaska. He was under pressure to get it at least under roof and heated before the Alaskan winter set in. He was living in the house while finishing it when he became deathly ill. He would have died, if not for a 16 year old neighbor boy who stayed the night with him and called for help when he could not rouse him in the morning.
While trying to diagnose the pyoderma gangrenosum, it was discovered that Bob had Crohn’s disease. His mother had also suffered from it and died from a perforated bowel while on massive pain medication for breast cancer.
Bob and I met on the internet while he was still recovering from a neck injury incurred in a fall while still recovering from the pyoderma. One of the areas effected was his leg. He moved to Maryland, and we were planning on getting married on July 10, 2004. Unfortunately, another Crohn’s flare up landed him in the hospital. It was quite severe to the point that doctor’s thought he had a tumor in his colon. We ended up getting married 2 weeks later than planned.
Bob’s health has been, for the most part, stable since then. He will occasionally have mild flare ups which require lots of tests. He is on immune suppressants as well as Asacol. He also continues to take pain medication for the severely herniated disk in his neck.
He continues to work full-time as a college instructor. However, our house is still not finished. We can’t afford to hire anyone to do major renovation or finishing projects, so have to work on it slowly ourselves. Because of Bob’s health, “extra” work has to be done at a very slow pace. We have a four year old child, so I can’t do it alone.
Right now, we are trying to win a local contest to renovate our very patched together kitchen. We only have a few days left to get as many votes as possible. It really is important that we have a kitchen that is easy to keep clean and as sterile as possible. I am asking anyone out there to please vote for the Feldman kitchen in the AlaskaBuild.com contest. Here is the link. It is not a scam. There is no spam involved. Just a lot of hope. Thanks!
alaskabuild.com/wkc We are entry #3 under my name, Mary Feldman
While trying to diagnose the pyoderma gangrenosum, it was discovered that Bob had Crohn’s disease. His mother had also suffered from it and died from a perforated bowel while on massive pain medication for breast cancer.
Bob and I met on the internet while he was still recovering from a neck injury incurred in a fall while still recovering from the pyoderma. One of the areas effected was his leg. He moved to Maryland, and we were planning on getting married on July 10, 2004. Unfortunately, another Crohn’s flare up landed him in the hospital. It was quite severe to the point that doctor’s thought he had a tumor in his colon. We ended up getting married 2 weeks later than planned.
Bob’s health has been, for the most part, stable since then. He will occasionally have mild flare ups which require lots of tests. He is on immune suppressants as well as Asacol. He also continues to take pain medication for the severely herniated disk in his neck.
He continues to work full-time as a college instructor. However, our house is still not finished. We can’t afford to hire anyone to do major renovation or finishing projects, so have to work on it slowly ourselves. Because of Bob’s health, “extra” work has to be done at a very slow pace. We have a four year old child, so I can’t do it alone.
Right now, we are trying to win a local contest to renovate our very patched together kitchen. We only have a few days left to get as many votes as possible. It really is important that we have a kitchen that is easy to keep clean and as sterile as possible. I am asking anyone out there to please vote for the Feldman kitchen in the AlaskaBuild.com contest. Here is the link. It is not a scam. There is no spam involved. Just a lot of hope. Thanks!
alaskabuild.com/wkc We are entry #3 under my name, Mary Feldman
