Stacy's Story

Stacey doesn't remember a time before IBD. 

She was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis when she was 18 months old and still struggles with IBD today, at age 43. 

People like Stacey are the reason that Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) is working nonstop to find better treatments and cures for these dreadful diseases.I'm so grateful for everything you're doing to help us get there. 

As a child, Stacey spent a lot of her childhood in the hospital – missing school, birthday parties, and summer days at the beach. 

Her symptoms eased up during her teenage years, but things got much worse in her 20s. First, she was diagnosed with colon cancer, which she successfully treated... but soon after, she developed Crohn's disease. 

By the time she was 35, she'd undergone 14 surgeries. 

"I didn't think I'd live to see my son graduate from high school," she says. "The pain and the anguish I've gone through with this disease are more than most people can imagine."