The body creating the person

ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 556: ULCERATIVE COLITIS

"I've heard this is an incredibly painful disease–is that true?" It's funny the things people ask you when you're lying on an ER bed, heart monitor wires crawling out from beneath a hastily thrown-on hospital gown, fluids and a steamrolling steroid drip being fed into weak veins, a second IV line put in right after the first, and a blood transfusion bracelet "just in case." Who said this to me? I think it was the woman from registration, a...