Winners of the 2015 IC Awareness Month Meme Contest

There were dozens of fabulous entries with many different themes: funny, poignant, sweet, honest, ironic and angry. They each share a unique perspective about life with IC and did a wonderful job educating others about IC and IC Awareness Month. It was hard to pick some winners because there were so many.!

First Place – Bella Raine

Angry gnomes playing bladder piñata… a hysterically accurate description of an IC flare with bladder spasms! Oh we laughed with this one! She will be receiving a Kindle Fire courtesy of IC Awareness Month sponsor Dr. Matthew Clark and the IC Vitamin Source for sponsoring the prizes

Second Place – Tricia Phillips

Some days we’ve just got to keep climbing that hill until we make some progress! You can do it and your IC sisters and brothers are standing behind you!

Third Place TIE – Jason Crandall

Powerful, evocative, mesmerizing, true! Love, Love, Love this entry!

Third Place TIE – CJ Baldwin

Well, honestly, isn’t this the truth! It is the all day, all night, needing to pee so you can never rest disease!

Honorable Mentions

Yup! When Elmiron costs a whopping $1000 or more per prescription, who can afford that?

Seriously? This is sooo true! Cats make wonderful heating pads and they always seem to know when we need them!

Yeah, you know that look. The “Oh No”.. it’s another IC’er expression. Mmmcmmm…

Like it or not, some doctors just don’t know how to, or want to, treat IC.

By Jill Osborne|2017-01-31T09:57:36-08:00October 8th, 2015|Our Blog|Comments Off

About the Author: Jill Osborne

My Google Profile+ Jill Heidi Osborne is the president and founder of the Interstitial Cystitis Network, a health education company dedicated to interstitial cystitis, bladder pain syndrome and other pelvic pain disorders. As the editor and lead author of the ICN and the IC Optimist magazine, Jill is proud of the academic recognition that her website has achieved. The University of London rated the ICN as the top IC website for accuracy, credibility, readability and quality. (Int Urogynecol J - April 2013). Harvard Medical School rated both Medscape and the ICN as the top two websites dedicated to IC. (Urology - Sept 11). For many years, Jill served on the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Panel (US Army) where she collaborated with researchers to evaluate new IC research studies for possible funding. Jill has conducted and/or collaborates on a variety of IC research studies on new therapeutics, pain care, sexuality, the use of medical marijuana, menopause and the cost of treatments, shining a light on issues that influence patient quality of life. An IC support group leader and national spokesperson for the past 20 years, she has represented the IC community on radio, TV shows, at medical conferences. She has written hundreds of articles on IC and its related conditions. Jill has a Bachelors Degree in Pharmacology and a Masters in Psychology, Jill was named Presidential Management Intern (aka Fellowship) while in graduate school. (She was unable to earn her PhD due to the onset of her IC.) She spends the majority of her time providing WELLNESS COACHING for patients in need and developing new, internet based educational and support tools for IC patients, including new live IC Support Group Meetings via Youtube and the “Living with IC” video series. Jill was diagnosed with IC at the age of 32 but first showed symptoms at the age of 12.