Anyone ever trained with a long term illness?

[rowdstar]

Crohns disease since i was 11. 40 now. People who know me in real life know I did pan ams two years in a row after only being out of the hospital for 4 weeks and weighting 119 pounds. i walk around at 140.

in the past two years i had 10 surgeries, an ostomy, lived of tpn for a year, in the hospital for 4 months in total the past two years. and tons more.

crohns won. i don't train anymore after all thats happened. andre still emails and texts me asking how i'm doing. and fabio and i are friends again too. the bjj community is tight if you're in it for any length of time.

yep, crohns won this one. oh well. i am now into competitive shooting and enjoying not feeling beat to crap all the time.

[BJJArsenal]

Unless drug addiction counts, nothing really. But you guys are real manly men. Keep training fellas.

[rowdstar]

sulfa drugs, prednisone for long term two differnt times, 5-asa, mercaptopurine aka 6mp, imuran, remicade, humira. a dozen surgeries through my adominal wall. bankcruptcy. lost jobs. and on and on and on.

acutally, im going to stop the rest of this planned post. it's just too pathetic to recount my medical life.

anyways, i will say that for YEARS, the only thing that kept me going was thinking of and being a part of bjj. and for that i'm thankful.

but after the last bout of medical and surgical misery, i walked away. i would rather not do bjj at all now than only do it 30%. sold all my gis. sold my mats. put all my medals away in a drawer. ah..........

all i can say is F@#$ crohns disease. but i am happy for what i do have and the life i can live. i may have quit bjj after years and years, but that doesnt mean i have quit living life and fighting. i just need a different physical hobby now.

raising my fist to all who remain, "warriors!"

[seatea]

One of my judo coaches is registered disabled with curvature of the spine, doctors thought he might end up in a wheelchair when he got older but he's 60 now and doing fine.

One training partner in judo has cerebral palsy that severely affects three of his limbs.

[styropyro]

I have ulcers and I have been out for a while, taking a break really sucks. There is very little that I can eat so I don't have enough energy.

After reading this thread I feel like a pussy compared to what others have trained with.

[jackandcoke]

Wow I thought my bum shoulder and back was bad, I got nothing to complain about anymore

[Uchi Mata]

Originally Posted by rowdstar

sulfa drugs, prednisone for long term two differnt times, 5-asa, mercaptopurine aka 6mp, imuran, remicade, humira. a dozen surgeries through my adominal wall. bankcruptcy. lost jobs. and on and on and on.

acutally, im going to stop the rest of this planned post. it's just too pathetic to recount my medical life.

anyways, i will say that for YEARS, the only thing that kept me going was thinking of and being a part of bjj. and for that i'm thankful.

but after the last bout of medical and surgical misery, i walked away. i would rather not do bjj at all now than only do it 30%. sold all my gis. sold my mats. put all my medals away in a drawer. ah..........

all i can say is F@#$ crohns disease. but i am happy for what i do have and the life i can live. i may have quit bjj after years and years, but that doesnt mean i have quit living life and fighting. i just need a different physical hobby now.

raising my fist to all who remain, "warriors!"

This is the nightmare scenario for me. I'm so sorry to hear your condition is so bad. It makes me feel lucky just to have had it for 10 years before getting my large intestine out. Good luck in whatever you can still do. I think I could get by as long as I could still play my guitar and be in bands, but it would be terrible to never get on the mat again. It depressed the shit out of me when I thought that might be the case. I won't drop any platitudes on you, sometimes terrible shit happens for no reason. I hope your life improves and the disease stops dictating so much of what you do.

[FirstScratch]

Originally Posted by rowdstar

sulfa drugs, prednisone for long term two differnt times, 5-asa, mercaptopurine aka 6mp, imuran, remicade, humira. a dozen surgeries through my adominal wall. bankcruptcy. lost jobs. and on and on and on.

acutally, im going to stop the rest of this planned post. it's just too pathetic to recount my medical life.

anyways, i will say that for YEARS, the only thing that kept me going was thinking of and being a part of bjj. and for that i'm thankful.

but after the last bout of medical and surgical misery, i walked away. i would rather not do bjj at all now than only do it 30%. sold all my gis. sold my mats. put all my medals away in a drawer. ah..........

all i can say is F@#$ crohns disease. but i am happy for what i do have and the life i can live. i may have quit bjj after years and years, but that doesnt mean i have quit living life and fighting. i just need a different physical hobby now.

raising my fist to all who remain, "warriors!"

Damn. I thought I had a tough road. I have a laundry list of ailments. A few serious ones. I think the thing that's helped me stick with it is that I never got caught up in a lot of the reasons a lot of people quit. I'm just happy to be a part of the sport.

[FirstScratch]

Originally Posted by rowdstar

sulfa drugs, prednisone for long term two differnt times, 5-asa, mercaptopurine aka 6mp, imuran, remicade, humira. a dozen surgeries through my adominal wall. bankcruptcy. lost jobs. and on and on and on.

acutally, im going to stop the rest of this planned post. it's just too pathetic to recount my medical life.

anyways, i will say that for YEARS, the only thing that kept me going was thinking of and being a part of bjj. and for that i'm thankful.

but after the last bout of medical and surgical misery, i walked away. i would rather not do bjj at all now than only do it 30%. sold all my gis. sold my mats. put all my medals away in a drawer. ah..........

all i can say is F@#$ crohns disease. but i am happy for what i do have and the life i can live. i may have quit bjj after years and years, but that doesnt mean i have quit living life and fighting. i just need a different physical hobby now.

raising my fist to all who remain, "warriors!"

Damn. I thought I had a tough road. I have a laundry list of ailments. A few serious ones. I think the thing that's helped me stick with it is that I never got caught up in a lot of the reasons a lot of people quit. I'm just happy to be a part of the sport.

[portland]

pretty sure i have beginning carpel tunnel, no fun at all