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What do you do when your child is losing weight, sleeping constantly, and no one can tell you why?
In this episode of Curveballs and Lemonade, Judy Kogan sits down with attorney, mom, and longtime friend Jen Gitlin to share her family’s journey navigating her son Trevor’s Crohn’s disease diagnosis.
Trevor was just 10 years old when subtle symptoms during the COVID pandemic turned into something far more serious. What began as fatigue, weight loss, and stomach issues became a long and emotionally exhausting search for answers. After months of uncertainty, specialist appointments, invasive testing, and advocating for care, Trevor was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that affects the digestive tract.
Jen opens up about the emotional toll of parenting a child with an invisible illness, the challenges of navigating treatment, hospital infusions, insurance battles, medication changes, and the constant uncertainty that comes with chronic illness.
She also shares how community, advocacy, and connection with other families helped transform isolation into hope.
This powerful conversation explores what it means to trust your instincts, fight for answers, support a child through chronic illness, and find strength in the unknown.
If you or someone you love is navigating Crohn’s disease, inflammatory bowel disease, autoimmune illness, chronic illness, or parenting through medical uncertainty, this episode offers insight, support, and hope.
New episodes drop every Thursday.
Follow Jen Gitlin:
Instagram: @easton_jennifer
Facebook: Jennifer Gitlin
Follow us on social media:
Instagram: @Curveballsandlemonade
Facebook: Curveballs and Lemonade
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@curveballsandlemonade
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CurveballsandLemonade
Recorded and produced by Command Creative Studios: https://www.commandcreativestudios.com/
Engineered by Robert Altschuler.
#CurveballsAndLemonade #CrohnsDisease #ChronicIllness #ParentAdvocacy #IBDAwareness #InvisibleIllness
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By Command Creative StudiosDESCRIPTION
What do you do when your child is losing weight, sleeping constantly, and no one can tell you why?
In this episode of Curveballs and Lemonade, Judy Kogan sits down with attorney, mom, and longtime friend Jen Gitlin to share her family’s journey navigating her son Trevor’s Crohn’s disease diagnosis.
Trevor was just 10 years old when subtle symptoms during the COVID pandemic turned into something far more serious. What began as fatigue, weight loss, and stomach issues became a long and emotionally exhausting search for answers. After months of uncertainty, specialist appointments, invasive testing, and advocating for care, Trevor was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that affects the digestive tract.
Jen opens up about the emotional toll of parenting a child with an invisible illness, the challenges of navigating treatment, hospital infusions, insurance battles, medication changes, and the constant uncertainty that comes with chronic illness.
She also shares how community, advocacy, and connection with other families helped transform isolation into hope.
This powerful conversation explores what it means to trust your instincts, fight for answers, support a child through chronic illness, and find strength in the unknown.
If you or someone you love is navigating Crohn’s disease, inflammatory bowel disease, autoimmune illness, chronic illness, or parenting through medical uncertainty, this episode offers insight, support, and hope.
New episodes drop every Thursday.
Follow Jen Gitlin:
Instagram: @easton_jennifer
Facebook: Jennifer Gitlin
Follow us on social media:
Instagram: @Curveballsandlemonade
Facebook: Curveballs and Lemonade
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@curveballsandlemonade
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CurveballsandLemonade
Recorded and produced by Command Creative Studios: https://www.commandcreativestudios.com/
Engineered by Robert Altschuler.
#CurveballsAndLemonade #CrohnsDisease #ChronicIllness #ParentAdvocacy #IBDAwareness #InvisibleIllness