Insatiable: A Life Without Eating. When my Crohn’s disease took away food, it took what it means to be human.
Insatiable: A Life Without Eating. When my Crohn’s disease took away food, it took what it means to be human.
When my Crohn's disease took away food, it took what it means to be human.
At first, it was simply a roast chicken recipe. Then it was everything.
I watched a man on YouTube cook the chicken, imagining what it would be like to taste it. Even if he had prepared it in front of me, I couldn’t have eaten it. Inflammation from Crohn’s disease had connected the tissues of my small intestine and my bladder together via fistula, and I did not want to pee out a roast chicken.
Instead, I was on a form of artificial food called total parenteral nutrition (TPN, for short). All my nutrition and water were pumped from an IV bag into my veins through a tube in my arm. Even though I had enough functional nutrition in my body my brain screamed, you’re hungry, constantly.
