Perspective: The Disease That Few Understand ; I Feel Inadequate. My Confidence Is so Low and Relationships Have Been Ruined in Its Mildest Form It Can Be Embarrassing. In Its Severest Form It Is More Painful Than Childbirth. Jennifer Pinner Spoke to a Woman Living with Crohn's Disease

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It's Christmas. A family sit around the table and tuck into a scrumptious turkey dinner, enjoying the fine fare and regaling in joyous spirits.

But one person is not eating - her taste buds cruelly tormented as she watches the food being consumed.

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Perspective: The Disease That Few Understand ; I Feel Inadequate. My Confidence Is so Low and Relationships Have Been Ruined in Its Mildest Form It Can Be Embarrassing. In Its Severest Form It Is More Painful Than Childbirth. Jennifer Pinner Spoke to a Woman Living with Crohn's Disease

She craves just one mouthful of the turkey, some cranberry sauce perhaps and her mother's home-made chestnut stuffing.

Her mouth begins to salivate. She knows she is unable to eat solid foods but as the temptation hits a crescendo, she has to revert to sipping from a green coloured fluid. While her family revel in ...

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