Thanks Dan
Good to hear your buddy's made it alright. One of the reasons too that I wrote the post was to tell them a little more about Crohn's Disease. When I was first diagnosed with it I had NO CLUE what it was all about.
Hopefully it'll help inspire others too to make sure they get it checked out every so often, so what happened to me doesn't have to happen to them (or at least as bad as it was for me, because that abscess was pretty big).