"I was in my hospital bed one evening in 1996. I didn't know what was happening at the time, all I knew was that I wanted to get better. I usually didn't have time to ask questions. I just thought, any establishment of my situation was good enough.

That night was different though. My energy level was heightened. I started to wonder what CD was. I slowly recalled some of the things the docs told me, but it just didn't seem like it was enough, or enough to the extent where I could coherently put the facts together to get a good understanding of CD. It even seemed like they didn't have many answers to what I was experiencing. It just seemed like I was being given a label, with some answers, but very little.

My mind drifted to my stamp collection. I thought of all the great awareness stamps that I saw in the past. I then thought about the possibility for a Crohn's stamp..."(Excerpt from "Our History")