the meaning behind this tattoo steams back to when i was sick. i have Crohn's disease, it's an illness that effects the gestational intestinal track, or for short the GI track. i've had this for about 4 years within being diagnosed. but prior to that had a symptoms and such of this illness. so in total 6 years. i was in a state in my life where i was so sick that i couldn't work, i had to quit university because it was too hard on my body, then went to college, but barely ever attended class. the reason is, is because i'd be in my bed at home, curled into a ball crying because of how painful it is. it finally came to the point where i had an extremely low iron and white blood cell count and that i weighed about 120 pounds at 6'0 tall. i went into the hospital because i was at my end points; this meaning if my illness continued without any additional help, i could've been dead by the end of 2010. while in the hospital for a month, i couldn't eat anything but liquid foods, therefore my weight was about 113 now. on July 3rd 2010, i had a life changing surgery. it made my life livable and it made me able to be the person i've always wanted to be.
sooo that's the story behind the tattoo and as you can see, it means a lot to me <3
