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Living with ulcerative colitis

Stories from people navigating ulcerative colitis — diagnosis, treatment, caregiving, and the ordinary days in between.

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A notebook, campus meal card and sleeve of crackers on a dorm room desk.

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Ulcerative Colitis Forced Her Out of Class 37 Times

A first-generation student tracked every urgent class exit in a notebook. By semester’s end, it held the record her professors had mistaken for poor planning.

Maya Ellison · September 7, 2026 · 7 min

A pocket notebook and pen beside a folded shirt and a small pouch of ostomy supplies on a bed.

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What She Carried Into the Date

Fourteen months after ostomy surgery, she wanted to date again. A pocket notebook held the disclosure lines she kept revising, and the fears she could not edit away.

Maya Ellison · 7 min read

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