The first week in December is IBD Awareness Week and this year I am celebrating the fact that I have lived with Crohn's disease for 20 years now. Yes, you read that correctly. I am CELEBRATING. Usually disease awareness campaigns are all about making people who don't know anything about the illness aware of how terrible it is, about how much people who have it are suffering, about how badly we need a cure. But I'm going to leave that part of the campaign to others. Instead, I am focusing my awareness efforts on the people who already know all of that... other people who have been diagnosed with an inflammatory bowel disease.