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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...
Tear Up Your Flare-Up

Tear Up Your Flare-Up

Whether it feels like a bus just squashed us flat or we have that sudden urge to defecate with no end in sight, we all know that feeling when a flare is imminent. And while it is no fun, it is a part of living and breathing with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). So...
TINA ASWANI OMPRAKASH | 2018 NYC ADULT HONORED HERO

TINA ASWANI OMPRAKASH | 2018 NYC ADULT HONORED HERO

I was at the top of my game having just graduated college with a Wall Street career all lined up and BAM, just like that, the colitis hit. At the tender age of 22, when my life was just supposed to be beginning, my life became a perpetual case of where’s the...