Crohn's disease sucks!!!

My name is Cherylann Seaman. I am 16 years old and I was diagnosed with crohn's disease in December 2013. For those of you who don't know what that is, it is an auto immune disorder that effects your whole digestive tract from your mouth all the way to your colon.
         I remember starting out with little stomach aches, and I kept complaining to my mom about them, so she finally took me to my pediatrician. She took some blood and had an x-ray done but only said I was constipated so she started me on laxatives to try and help me go. Over the course of the next few months It progressively got worse and worse.  I started having stomach pains different than i'd ever had. they'd double me over, last for a minute or two and then go away as unexpectedly as they came. They started increasing in frequency and intensity over the course of the next few weeks. I couldn't keep food down. At all. I would eat and then dread the time following as food moved through my digestive tract, curling up in a ball on the floor. I visited my pediatrician once or twice a month for the course of eight months. She wouldn't even do another x-ray even though I kept trying to explain to her that it wasn't constipation because I was on the toilet at least 20 times a day! I had bloody stools and she proceeded to tell me that I had hemorrhoids ( Which oddly never hurt and I found out later that I never even had them)!! I also visited my local ER at least 3 times, they would take blood and would tell me that I looked fine and send me home. I tried so hard to convince the doctors to do more tests because I knew it was something deeper than what they were looking for. I almost started to feel crazy because they kept saying nothing was wrong with me. This continued 8 months straight as i got weaker, lost crazy amounts of weight and became progressively more frightened. This disease stole 8 months of my life. I couldn't even leave my bed. I stopped seeing friends, barely ate, and couldn't sleep because of the pain. All the things I was once passionate for, became nothing to me because I was too sick to even care about anything. The first week of December  brought me back to the ER and after examining me they said that i was so severely malnourished/dehydrated that they would have to admit me. I'd never spent the night in a hospital before, so it was scary but i was so thankful that they'd finally really have to pay attention to what was going on with me and get to the bottom of it. I was becoming a shadow of myself, too weak to do much of anything and too sick to do much about it. I was scared, but I was brave.  The first night was very emotional for me. I already hadn't eaten for three days and by the time I was admitted into Children's hospital, I was STARVING. The doctor came in and told me he didn't want me to eat or even drink anything until they could get a clearer idea what was going on. I broke down and i remember crying myself to sleep that night, not only because I wanted food but because I was terrified of what they would find. Let me just say the doctors at Children's hospital were so nice, they treated me with the best care imaginable. It made being at the hospital feel comforting even though all I wanted was to go home and for all of this to disappear. I was in the hospital for a total of 13 days. For the first five I couldn't eat anything while they ran tests and cleared me out for the colonoscopy and endoscopy. I was pretty nervous about that but they had a doctor that came in and explained everything to me and answered all my questions. I'm telling you people, IT WAS SO COMFORTING the way they ran things at Children's. I don't thing I would have been as brave without them. Anyways, even before they did the colonoscopy my GI doctor was convinced I had crohns by my CT scan. I was pretty shook about that, but I was more relieved that they just found out what was going on so they could start treating me and so I could feel better! Anyways this disease doesn't just take a toll on you physically, but it's so emotional too. My mom had stuck by my side through this whole journey and I don't know where I would be without her. Lately she's been completely stressed out, not being able to catch up on bills because of expenses for my disease. I want to help give back to her since she has done so much for me. I would GREATLY appreciate it if you would help by buying a shirt. Thank you all so much :)