What It’s Really Like Living With A J-Pouch
Meghan Rabbitt
Paul Richman should’ve known something was up when he saw blood in the toilet after using the bathroom one night. He was in college at the time and had been at a bar with friends, so he chalked it up to too much to drink and a steady diet of fast food.
Then, a few days later, Richman was driving to his student-teaching job and had to pull over on the side of the highway to go to the bathroom—something that had never happened before.“That’s when I knew something was really wrong,” he says.“Just a couple of months later, I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis.”