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Another Seriously Unfortunate Scholarship Event


Sisen

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Today I finally heard about the Crohn’s Scholarship I applied for earlier this year… Sadly I did not receive a phone call notifying me that I was one of the winners, instead I received the dreaded thin envelope.

 

On behalf of UCB, Inc., we would like to thank you for applying for the 2010 UCB Crohn’s Scholarship Program. The program’s selection committee thoroughly reviewed all the applications, and after careful consideration, we regret to inform you that you were not selected as one of this year’s scholarship recipients.

 

There was an overwhelming response to the program this year, with more than 800 application received. The selection committee recognized how you are living beyond the boundaries of Crohn’s disease and you should be proud of what you’ve accomplished.

 

They go on to say I can always reapply this fall if I’m enrolled in school during the 2011 fall semester and wish me luck and success in my future. Pretty much the exact same letter I received last year which is a bit disheartening when I worked on this application two-hundred percent more than last year’s. I had to practically battle the winter storms the east coast suffered earlier this year just to get my entry in on time…

 

Things could be worse though I suppose. Life is good now and I’d take that over any scholarship amount. I’ll just have to knuckle down over the month off I have coming up and apply for anything and everything I can.

 

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Taken from Wiki:

Crohn's disease (also known as granulomatous, and colitis) is an inflammatory disease of the intestines that may affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to nether regions, causing a wide variety of symptoms. It primarily causes abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, or weight loss, but may also cause complications outside of the gastrointestinal tract such as skin rashes, arthritis, inflammation of the eye, tiredness, and lack of concentration.

 

Crohn's disease is thought to be an autoimmune disease, in which the body's immune system attacks the gastrointestinal tract, causing inflammation; it is classified as a type of inflammatory bowel disease. There has been evidence of a genetic link to Crohn's disease, putting individuals with siblings afflicted with the disease at higher risk. It is understood to have a large environmental component as evidenced by the higher number of cases in western industrialized nations. Males and females are equally affected. Smokers are three times more likely to develop Crohn's disease. Crohn's disease affects between 400,000 and 600,000 people in North America. Prevalence estimates for Northern Europe have ranged from 27–48 per 100,000. Crohn's disease tends to present initially in the teens and twenties, with another peak incidence in the fifties to seventies, although the disease can occur at any age.

 

There is no known pharmaceutical or surgical cure for Crohn's disease. Treatment options are restricted to controlling symptoms, maintaining remission and preventing relapse.

 

The disease was named for American gastroenterologist Burrill Bernard Crohn, who in 1932, along with two colleagues, described a series of patients with inflammation of the terminal ileum, the area most commonly affected by the illness. For this reason, the disease has also been called regional ileitis or regional enteritis. The condition, however, has been independently identified by others in the literature prior, most notably in 1904 by Polish surgeon Antoni Leśniowski for whom the condition is additionally named (Leśniowski-Crohn's disease) in the Polish literature.

 

You asked. :P

 

I've managed it well with the help of my family and doctor's though. Not sure if there's anything else you want to know after that, but if there is let me know.

 

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