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This local profile highlights an IBD patient receiving scholarship support and speaking about living with Crohn’s, surgery (ostomy), and the broader immune-related effects of the disease. It may inspire patients, students, and caregivers and draws attention to supports available for post-secondary students with IBD.
Patients with Crohn’s disease or other IBD, Indigenous and post-secondary students with chronic illness, caregivers, and clinicians interested in patient experiences and supports.
Thunder Crowshoe, a 24-year-old University of Lethbridge biochemistry student from the Piikani Nation, is a 2026 recipient of the AbbVie IBD Scholarship from Crohn’s and Colitis Canada.
The article summarizes his diagnosis with Crohn’s disease (symptoms beginning as a teen, formal diagnosis after 2020), multiple surgeries resulting in a permanent ostomy, interest in immunology and genetics informed by his studies, and gratitude for the scholarship support.
Crowshoe describes Crohn’s as involving more than the gut for him—noting immune-related skin involvement after surgery—and connects his lived experience to academic interests in immune pathways, genetics, and the microbiome.
The piece is a local human-interest profile emphasizing education, mentorship, and encouragement for Indigenous students pursuing science while managing chronic illness. This is a patient story/local profile and does not report new clinical data, trial results, or treatment recommendations.
It highlights lived-experience, career goals, and scholarship support rather than medical findings.
This is a human-interest news article from a local outlet describing one student's experience and educational goals. It is not a research report or clinical guidance. Details about treatments and outcomes are reported as personal history rather than clinical data.
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Cure8 could only read part of this source from healthcentral.com, so this card uses cautious topic tags instead of a full summary. It is tagged for Crohn's disease, Inflammatory bowel disease, and Ostomy.
Cure8 could only read part of this source from healthcentral.com, so this card uses cautious topic tags instead of a full summary. It is tagged for Crohn's disease, Inflammatory bowel disease, and Ostomy.
