Items Tagged ‘Crohn’s Disease’
October 7, 2019
Freed From Debilitating Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Marissa Russo has been battling symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease for half her life. When a flare-up that lasted several months had her confined to bed and barely able to function, she turned to the expertise of Mayo Clinic for a new approach to treatment.
Tags: Crohn's Disease, Dr. Michael Picco, Inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis
January 15, 2019
Emerging From the Grip of Chronic Pain
For years, the chronic pain of Crohn’s disease isolated Breanne Spence from family and friends. At Mayo Clinic’s Pain Rehabilitation Center, Breanne learned how to manage the pain so she could take control of her life again.
Tags: Crohn's Disease, Dr. Cynthia Townsend, Pain Rehabilitation Center
March 11, 2011
Crohn’s diagnosis helps ‘The Big Street’ find road to recovery
The below article comes from our Sharing Mayo Clinic print publication: At 6 feet 4 inches tall and more than 200 pounds, Brandon Street could easily be described as “big.” In high school, his nickname was “The Big Street.” When this active young man who enjoyed playing sports began to have irregular and difficult bowel […]
Tags: 2642, 5275, 5334, Brandon Street, Crohn's Disease, Gastroenterology
July 22, 2010
By CSMMayo 
When I walked into Dr. Sunanda Kane’s office at Mayo Clinic, I was crying. I had been diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease not long before, and I was devastated by the news. I know some people who have Crohn’s, and they were not doing well. I had one baby and knew I wanted to have another, […]
Tags: 2642, 5275, 5335, Crohn's Disease, Patient Story
September 10, 2009
Becoming an Employee after 35 Years as a Mayo Patient
By Lee Aase, Director, Mayo Clinic Social Media Network 
Linda Rockey’s first experience at Mayo Clinic was in 1971, when her grandmother insisted that she come to Mayo Clinic for treatment of her worsening Crohn’s disease. “It was a week that just changed my life,” she says. Thirty years later Mayo neurosurgeon Dr. Fredric Meyer operated on Linda to repair a double aneurysm in her […]
Tags: Aneurysm, Brain surgery, Crohn's Disease, Employee Stories, Linda Rockey, Mayo Clinic, Patient Stories, Volunteer