For Annabelle Winters, the lifesaving effects of running go far beyond the physical. “In many ways, my ability to cope with a chronic disease comes from being a runner.”
For many runners with chronic illnesses, managing their condition in order to continue doing the sport they love can be a challenge. But the benefits they gain from it—a calmer mind, aBut for 37-year-old Annabelle Winters, running through chronic illness hasn’t just given her a mental boost: It may have literally saved her life.Winters is a lifelong runner. She started running in third grade, as part of an after-school club in her hometown in southern New Hampshire.
The surgery went smoothly, and she left with the happy result that her disease was in remission—something she and her three gastroenterologists had been working toward for the last five years. “Remission is an indication of how active the disease is,” she explains. “It’s basically how much your immune system is attacking your colon.” Remission is important because it decreases one of the biggest risks of having colitis: developing full-blown colon cancer.
“Like, imagine the worst road-trip-I’ve-been-holding-it-for-two-hours type of pee pressure,” she describes. “It was like that, but blood.” Winters was taken to the ER at Advocate Illinois Masonic, where the doctors ultimately discovered that an ulcer had formed in her colon, near the site of the resectioning. Curiously, as biopsies taken during the EMR indicated, this did not happen because of any issue with the procedure, or even due to her ulcerative colitis.
than more sedentary people. Winters’s heart, for instance, beats an average of 48 times per minute, compared to the 60 to 100 bpm range of average adults.
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