Own Your Crohn’s

Empowering the Chronically Ill & Disabled to Lead Fuller Lives

Honoring My Late Father

Honoring My Late Father

(Daddy at his Doctoral Commencement at Columbia University in the ’70s.)This Father’s Day I honor all fathers. I especially honor my father who devoted his life to the sciences and to his family. He toiled endlessly until the very last minute working until...
Coming Out of My IBD Closet as a Desi Woman

Coming Out of My IBD Closet as a Desi Woman

Every single year the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation chooses a local Adult Honored Hero who shares his/her story and is honored at the Take Steps Walk in the spring. And every single year I attend the New York City walk, raise awareness and funds to help find...

Indian-American Crohn’s Patient and Ostomate Named Honored Hero

Indian-American Crohn’s Patient and Ostomate Named Honored Hero of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation By Brown Girl Magazine May 1, 2018     [All photos courtesy of Tina Aswani Omprakash]   I was at the top of my game having just graduated college with a...