Items Tagged ‘Crohn’s Disease’
December 24th, 2012
By Margaret Shepard, Communications Specialist 
Sam and Laura Kirstein biked across the country to show that people with inflammatory bowel disease can still lead an active life. “If you persevere, there is light at the end of the tunnel.”
Tags: 1852, 2642, 2643, 5144, Crohn's Disease, IBD, Laura Kirstein, Mayo Clinic, Sam Kirstein
March 11th, 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 22nd, 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 10th, 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