If you were looking at the military it would be difficult to be posted on operational service or not possible. Good luck. Lamb.
Dec 27, 2011
police force and crohn'sNEW by: Lili(NJ)
Yes!!!,
My husband served in the Military for 12 years(now a veteran) and he has been on the police force for 14 years and is also a K-9 handler.
I am not going to lie to you,.. it was difficult for him to work while he was having a flare up, but he managed..Once the Crohn's got so bad that he had to have a bowel resection, the first question was " how is he going to work with an ostomy bag attached to his side"? At first it took some getting used to and a whole lot of accidents and changing out of uniforms and vest. It has now been a year and a half and he still has his ostomy bag and feels great, does not dread going into work at all odd hours of the night, and he performs his job well. NO one at the force even knows that he has Crohn's or even an Ostomy bag.
Good Luck to you and keep me posted...
Dec 23, 2011
A Better Question :)NEW by: Kit
The question I feel you should be asking yourself, is, do I really want Crohns?!
Crohns is just a name! It's named after the doctor that named that area of inflammation in the bowel, mouth to rectum.
Ask your doctor, if he couldn't use the word Crohns, what would he say to describe what is going on with you at the moment?
The answer? Inflammation and ulceration of the bowel perhaps.
Okay, so the next question is....what is the cause?
If the doctor just says, you have Crohns Disease, say that this is just a name for the symptoms!!!!
But what is causing the problem??!?!?!
THE CAUSE COMES FIRST!! THE SYMPTOMS FOLLOW!!
Please wake up to this!!!!
Of course you can be in the police force, but more importantly, you need to work out what is causing your Crohns.
For me, after 40 years of suffering, 'owning' the disease, I worked it out and dropped in the middle of a bleeding attack. In SEVEN days.
Stop, just STOP and breathe.
Look back at your life and see if you can find a correlation between 'feeling' bad or angry, or going some crazy stress, or not having any control, feeling fear of this and getting angry because of it etc., etc., etc.
Just Stop. Accept. Then ACT
Learn all this, drop the 'Crohns' and join the police force as a much more happier human being :)
Cheers
Kit
