Support of Friends

Taking it day to day…

Everyone has had their ups and their downs with IC, and I now for a fact we all wish things wouldn’t be so hard at times. It is really hard having, to follow a diet everyday and take different medications. As a person it starts to take effect on you. I know it has for me. I would not wish then on anyone and if by chance you ever are told you have IC make sure you have a strong support team. It’s nice to have people who encourage you every day and tell you that your one day closer to being off your medications and then there’s those days where you really just don’t want to deal with whets going on. I know there have been days where I just lay in my bed because I am in so much pain, and I know laying there isn’t helping because I need to be active to lessen the pain. I’m glad my friend Amanda and Nick (my boyfriend) are there for me. They have been with me since the beginning, well since the time I started having problems to finding out I had IC. I don’t know what I would do without either one of them here to support me.

Amanda has been understanding out this. Her and I have been friends since high school and it is so easier for her to know when I’m not feeling good and could just a little bit of me time. She’s been a rock in all of my hard times dealing with all of this and without her I think I would stress out over all of this. Nick on the other hand, didn’t really understand at first everything that was going on. Just like me he was learning something new, but through it all he has been there. He’s made sure I’ve taken all my medications when I need to take them, to insure I get better. No matter what kind of pain I am in Nick has a way of calming me down so I don’t worry about the pain and worry about something else, like doing my homework. I also have to give Nick credit because if it wasn’t for him I don’t think I would have much courage to face up to my own fears about having IC. He has always told me that things will be okay and thing will turn out fine, I just had to give them time. I know that it will take time to fix my IC I just have a hard time knowing that I will have this, the rest of my life, because  there is no cure for it yet. All and all I would say that without the support of Amanda and Nick dealing with IC would be much harder for me then it is.