My dad and I have Crohn’s disease. My dad has a very severe case and although many different types of medications exist for Crohn’s, he is allergic to many of them. In the nineties, the only prescription he could take was prednisone-you were not supposed to stay on that long term. As a result of this, he had a multitude of different health problems that stemmed from the long-term use, some including him being on crutches due to blood loss in his legs and he also had to have to get six feet of his intestines cut out. Due to medical innovations such as Remicade and other biologic therapies and monoclonal antibodies, my dad was able to reach a stable state. Biologic therapies use monoclonal antibodies, which are antibodies inserted into your