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Yet another sleepless night and day

Posted by Tricia in Thursday, October 2nd 2008

Yesterday I was in a daze. I didn’t sleep all night. I only fell asleep at about 7:30 in the morning when my husband was getting up to go to work and he accidentally woke me up when he was leaving for work at 9:30.
I couldn’t get back to sleep at all. My [...]

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What a party pooper

Posted by Tricia in Saturday, September 6th 2008

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My body is playing a big joke on me right now and it’s not funny.
Seriously …

It’s my birthday and I woke up with a headache this morning. No not from partying last night, unfortunately. I don’t know what caused it, probably the stress I’ve been under as it’s been a bad week. Anyway … the [...]

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How can one person make you feel so bad?

Posted by Tricia in Wednesday, August 20th 2008

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My aunt died a couple of weeks ago. I never said anything because I was feeling bad that I couldn’t go to her funeral. My husband couldn’t get the time off work to drive to Ottawa and my older brother who’d I normally get a lift with in cases like this was working [...]

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Can’t I just be normal for one day?

Posted by Tricia in Monday, August 11th 2008

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Back in June I had a week or two where I was dizzy all the time. It happened mostly when I’d stand up from a lying or sitting position but sometimes I was dizzy even when I was lying down. I spoke with my doctor about it at the time (the pain doc) and [...]

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Hump day - how’s your week going so far?

Posted by Tricia in Wednesday, July 23rd 2008

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It’s already the middle of the week and I feel like I haven’t managed to get anything done yet!

I always seem to feel terrible with my Crohn’s but the past two or three weeks have been really bad and it just seems to be getting worse. The minute I wake up I’m in pain [...]