“I didn’t know

As Danielle Walker lay in a hospital bed racked with pain from ulcerative colitis, an autoimmune disease that attacks the colon, she worried what her illness meant for her 9-monthold son. “He couldn’t visit me in the hospital and I knew something had to change,” recalls Danielle. “I didn’t want him to grow up thinking,

Danielle had been in and out of the ER and doctors’ offices countless times since her diagnosis with the disease three years earlier. “I would get so malnourished that I’d

Mom can’t come to my soccer game because she’s sick again.”