Health Expert Shelly Rondeau Heller shares health management news and commentary at HealthCentral.com. HealthCentral.com is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/682383/index http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/682383/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/682383/index http://www.healthcentral.com/ibd/c/682383/73338/created-illness Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:27:00 -0400 Shelly Rondeau Heller I live in Boulder, Colorado, one of the most health-centric places in the world. So when I got sick with ulcerative colitis in 2000, I felt like some kind of failure. I was a wife, a mom, and in the middle of my main earning years. It was a terrible time to be sick. I spent a lot of time thinking, "What did I do to create this?"   In Boulder, and I'm sure many other places around the country, people are quite adamant that if you can just... http://www.healthcentral.com/ibd/c/682383/73338/created-illness http://www.healthcentral.com/ibd/c/682383/71795/healing-journey Thu, 21 May 2009 11:11:00 -0400 Shelly Rondeau Heller Greetings to the HealthCentral community! It's spring, 2009, exactly eight years after the final of my three surgeries for ulcerative colitis. In numerology terms, nine years is a full cycle. So perhaps it is fitting that as I enter this final year of the cycle, I am joining HealthCentral's IBD team as a blogger.   I have the dubious distinction of knowing far too much about abdominal surgery and healing, and it's all from personal... http://www.healthcentral.com/ibd/c/682383/71795/healing-journey