I POSITIVELY have Crohns

As I read through a few of the FB pages for Crohns and IBS, I came across a phrase tatooed on the ankle of someone who obviously has Crohns. The phrase 'luctor et emergo' is Latin meaning 'I struggle and emerge'. Okay, I'm inspired. Not to get a tatoo, mind you, but inspired by this persons belief that no matter how bad the day or week, they will arise, they will overcome.
Even tho our bodies are at times unable to do the things we want or need to do, the inner self, the person you really are, doesn't have to be defeated. Holding on to the thought that you will get better, even tho it may be for just a short time, can make those times of struggle easier.
Our energy may come and go, our abilities confined by a body that doesn't behave the way it should. These things we can't always change. But grasping the mindset that you will prevail, keeps us above the disease rather than being overtaken by it.
Since I'm going greek today, in the words of Horace, 'carpe diem'!