"It’s Crohn’s Disease, NOT Chrones Disease!”

Does anyone else get frustrated by this common spelling mistake when dealing with Crohn’s Disease? I personally can’t stand it; however, I won’t jump down the average person’s throat when such an incident occurs. Instead I will politely correct their spelling mistake if the situation warrants such a correction and move on. The same cannot be said when I am faced with someone that claims to be able to cure my Chrone’s Disease, especially if they try to tell me they used to suffer from Chrone’s Disease themselves. When this happens (usually in my email or in the comment sections below) I pretty much rip the writer of the statement a new one, my fingers racing across the computer keyboard without stop until the reply is ready to be sent. The reason for this is simple: going through life with a painful disease that has no cure is bad enough, but then to have people prey upon you because of the disease, people that can’t even show enough respect to look up the correct spelling of the disease, is completely unacceptable. Such a person deserves no mercy. Another thing I can’t come to terms with are people who have this disease but continuously misspell it because it just makes me wonder what the hell they are doing. How can someone go through life with a disease that ravages the body and not even know how to spell it correctly? That just boggles my mind. Don’t they want to understand the disease they suffer from? Shouldn’t one be doing as much research on it as possible so they can have a conversation with the doctor when in their office, and, even more important, understand why he or she is suggesting the various treatments they might have to undergo. Such steps are incredibly important when forced to live with something like Crohn’s Disease.