In this unreserved account, Michael shares his journey of growing up with Crohn's Disease. From its early onset at the age of ten, he takes us through the challenges faced during primary school, the complexities of navigating adolescence with an easily misunderstood and sometimes embarrassing condition, and how he ultimately found liberation through the much-feared ostomy bag. Most symptoms and side effects of inflammatory bowel disease are explicit, this book announces that the true struggle for young people with IBD is in the mind.