Colitiscope: Living With Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis | Date: 28 April 2011, 08:37
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Colitiscope: Living With Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
By Andrew Tubesing
* Publisher: Pfeifer-Hamilton, Inc.
* Number Of Pages: 192
* Publication Date: 2009-09-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1935388002
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781935388005
Product Description:
More of an adventure story than an encyclopedia, this resource for Crohn’s and colitis patients weaves humor with introspection and information with observation. Written by a sufferer of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), the guide shares common tales and insights while also covering symptoms, medications, and procedures, from a uniquely entertaining viewpoint. Humor and frankness are used as a coping method, helping to illustrate and conquer common difficulties brought on by the chronic illness.
Summary: Funny and Insightful
Rating: 5
A hilarious look at a less-than-funny condition. Tubesing does a wonderful job of providing a light, laugh-out-loud narrative of dealing with a serious, often embarrassing health challenge. Filled with wonderful insights about family, life, and longtime love, it's a great read, even for those of us lucky enough to have dodged such a diagnosis.
Summary: Wonderfully insightful and a must for health-care providers
Rating: 5
This is one of those rare texts written by someone who can relate to both health care providers and laypeople alike. The humor keeps it light while the insights into what it's like to suffer from ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease are illuminating for those who care for and live with people with these conditions. Tubesing doesn't gloss over the details of the day-to-day existence of people like himself, but neither does he dwell on his disease as though it's his one defining characteristic. I think in particular that medical residents, especially those going into gastrointestinal specialties, would benefit greatly from reading this text, and because it's highly accessible to anyone, I would recommend it for family members of people with inflammatory bowel disease conditions.
Summary: Brave and Enlightening
Rating: 5
Funny, forthright, and informative, this book opened my eyes and awakened my compassion for those suffering from Crohn's and colitis.
In the course of sharing these essays with others, I've learned that several people in my life live with either chronic bowel disease or digestive complications related to some other ailment. Were it not for Colitiscope, the topic would have never been raised, and that entire dimension of their lives would have remained unknown to me. With the subject broached--and with the knowledge gained from reading this book--I can now be a more understanding and effective friend.
In the end, these essays transcend Crohn's and colitis and offer a window into the challenges of living with any number of quiet afflictions. You walk away from the book more open, more inquisitive, and more equipped to understand one another.
It's a brave thing the author has done, publicly bringing attention to this subject, and I applaud him.
Summary: Insightful
Rating: 5
"Colitiscope" straddles the delicate line of balance between offering a detailed description of common signs and symptoms of bowel disease (no laughing matter) with a range of thought-provoking, often humorous, stories shared from an insider's perspective (a laughing matter). The author accomplishes the art of de-sensitization ----- tackling a taboo topic while utilizing the prism of humor. This book offers a series of stories from the author's own history which, hopefully, many individuals with bowel disease can identify with yet in a format that allows family and friends to better understand, empathize and respond to those with this hidden illness. Five stars for content, readibility and educational insight.
Summary: A very helpful and humorous guide to bowel disease (really!)
Rating: 5
As a long-time sufferer of Ulcerative Colitis I wondered about the concept of looking at such a life-altering disease with humor. It can only be done, I think, by someone who not only has the problem, but who can step outside of it and be willing to share in things that are not only embarrassing, but very serious. Reading the book I found myself remembering some things I'd forgotten from my own past and getting a chuckle out of them.
This book will amuse those who have bowel disease, but I think will be a greater benefit to those who are close to someone with it and are trying to understand. Unless you can say you live your life in constant fear of embarrassment and illness, you need to find someone who can do a good job of explaining the experience to you.
I recommended the book to my family doctor and to my colon specialist for suggested reading material for patients and their families. I haven't found anything on the subject that is a well done as this book. It will mean someting to a great many people.
Well done.
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