Barry's hopeful fantasies here are as accurate as his fantasies about Robin. I've been in remission from Crohn's for 12 years now, with no symptoms at all. The severity of the disease varies widely: some people suffer terribly from it, and others don't even know they have it as long as they take their medication. I'm one of the lucky ones.
Now, you wouldn't know this if I didn't tell you (unless you'd read what I said the last time Barry hauled out these fantasies). With his fantasies about Robin, anyone reading FFL who's been paying attention knows they're ludicrous. What drives Barry to tell these monstrous stories that his sick imagination conjures up? Are the people who pay him, God help us, to write medical articles for the Web aware of the difficulty he has discerning the difference between his fantasies and reality? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" <lurkernomore20002000@> > wrote: <snip> > > Stomach troubles? I'll be honest Judy, I would really > > love to lose a few pounds, but eating is so satisfying. > > Consider the source, Steve. This is probably more > projection, coming from someone who possibly hasn't > had a day *without* "stomach trouble" in a long time: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chron%27s_disease > > Just sayin'. Read the symptoms. They explain a great > deal about what might make someone like this. > > Screenwriter Dan O'Bannon died from complications > surrounding his 33-year battle with Crohn's disease. > As some have noted (including himself, below), its > effect on his life and his psyche might have had a > great deal to do with the famous scene he wrote in > "Alien" in which an alien presence causes excruciating > abdominal pain. From an article written by another > Crohn's sufferer when the cause of O'Bannon's death > was announced: > > What does Crohn's feel like? > > It feels like an alien is about to pop out of your > guts. You think I'm exaggerating? You have no idea. > > ...back to Alien: I happened on Dan O'Bannon's > obituary in the NY Times over the holiday. O'Bannon > wrote the screenplay for Alien, as well as several > other horror and science fiction films. O'Bannon > also had Crohn's disease in fact, the obit quotes > him as saying, "the idea for the the monster in > 'Alien' originally came from a stomachache I had." > I've seen Alien a half-dozen times, and now it makes > perfect sense: how I've wished the monster gnawing > at my guts would just kill me and/or scamper away. > > Of course, most doctors will tell you that Crohn's > is incurable but not terminal so it's notable that > the obit states, "the cause [of death] was Crohn's > disease." That could mean any number of things, from > surgical complications to sepsis to self-assisted > euthanasia there are a lot of ways to die from > Crohn's disease. But the fact that you might identify > a proximate cause of death in no way changes the > underlying cause of death; so when doctors say > Crohn's isn't terminal, what they mean is that in > theory you could live a normal lifespan, if you can > just avoid all the different ways people with Crohn's > disease die prematurely. Props to whomever named Mr. > O'Bannon's cause of death for what it was. > > Sad though Mr. O'Bannon's passing is, I am at least > grateful I can finally claim a movie for my disease. > People with AIDS have Philadelphia, and people with > ALD have Lorenzo's Oil but those of us with Crohn's? > We have frickin' Alien and that's a pretty badass > movie to have.
