Pettiford & Arthel Neville. Brooke is a single mother of a young son, Jax Honeycutt,
and they currently reside in Los Angeles. Brooke is the creator and blogger for The
Crazy Creole Mommy Chronicles, the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America Lifestyle
Ambassador, the Event Manager for Club MomMe Los Angeles, and the LA Happy Mama
rep for Happy Family Brands. Brooke has also written for The Right Start blog owned by
popular baby store The Right Start, and she has been featured in The Phoenix Ostomy
Magazine & on CCFA.org.
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RASHEED CLARK
AUTHOR OF: THREE TABLETS TWICE DAILY
a book of short stories about life with ulcerative colitis
“I had my first collision with colitis
in 2007, as I was in the midst
of training for a half-marathon.
It really blindsided me because
I felt as though I was in very
good condition, both mentally
and physically. A combination of
medications put the disease into
remission, and I wasn’t formally
diagnosed with ulcerative colitis.
That official declaration came
in 2008 after another, more
prolonged flare-up. In January
2009, I began taking prednisone
and 5-ASA medications, and they
worked wonderfully. I stayed in
remission from early 2009 until
December 2010, and that’s when
things went awry. From that point
I went through a number of treatments – Azathioprine, probiotics, restrictive diets,
naturopathic remedies, Infliximab – all of which failed. I decided to opt for a J-pouch, and
had my first surgery in May 2013. That operation came with a number of complications.
I still have a loop ileostomy and I hope to have the take down surgery in December 2013
or January 2014.
While I was in my third year at the University of Toronto, studying communications and
writing, I took a course called Science and Writing. That’s where I began to research UC
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