Overcoming Crohn’s Disease: The David Garrard Story

Yet another season goes by and the Jacksonville Jaguars spend the off-season watching the playoffs from the comforts of home. Although they once again endure the disappointment of narrowly missing a playoff berth, at least one player has something to be thankful for after another completed season.

In January 2004, Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Garrard began experiencing severe stomach pains after meals. The pain would subside, but then reappear. Garrard’s 6-foot-1, 244-pound frame began shedding weight at the onset of Crohn’s disease, one of several inflammatory bowel diseases that affect 1.4 million Americans, according to the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America. Garrard bottomed out at 215 pounds, matching his weight as a high school freshman. When a colonoscopy and further tests revealed that he suffered from Crohn’s disease, doctors placed him on a regime of drugs, but the pain always returned.

Garrard missed out on nearly all of the 2004 NFL season.  He suddenly seemed like a gaunt man whose head looked too big for his body. What he was going through was beyond football, it was a matter of survival. Yet Garrard was experienced in life, death, and divorce. His parents split when he was only seven, and his mother, Shirley Ann, passed of breast cancer when he was 14. Furthermore, Garrard had recently lost his father, Wilmer Garrard, in 2003.

In May 2004, doctors at the Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville removed 12 inches from Garrard’s intestines, entering just below his naval. Garrard began to put on weight and was able to get back onto the professional football field, where, to this day, he is still the starting quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars. The doctors also recommended supplements that could aid in keeping the disease in remission.

There are theories about what causes Crohn’s disease, but none have been proven. The most popular theory is that the body’s immune system reacts to a virus or bacterium by causing ongoing inflammation in the intestine. Currently, there is no known pharmaceutical or surgical cure for Crohn’s disease. There are, however, effective, non-surgical Crohn’s disease treatment options that can alleviate the pain and embarrassment caused by the disease and produce long periods of remission, where there are no symptoms.

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