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Pain I can do without

November 6, 2008 by Tricia

Sorry I haven’t made any new posts in a while. I’ve been very ill over the last week or so, well probably longer than that. As usual it’s the Crohn’s disease acting up again.

If you’ve ever had the flu or perhaps bad diarrhea you might be familiar with that sharp pain you get in your stomach just before you have to run to the washroom? Well that’s what my stomach has felt like for at least a week and a half – luckily without too many dashes to the washroom, just the cramps and a constant gnawing pain in my stomach. My fevers have also been worse – higher and pretty much constant.

So, needless to say, I haven’t really been able to concentrate on writing, answering comments or emails in the last while.

I am feeling a little better than I was earlier today. If I’m lucky perhaps I’ll start to feel better soon.





Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease Tagged With: constant_pain, cramps, crohns, fever, ill, pain, posts, sick, stabbing_pain, week, Writing

I have dumb roses

November 2, 2008 by Tricia

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My roses and other garden plants must be quite dumb.

It’s getting colder and colder here in Toronto, yet my garden is still very much alive. Smart plants would have shut down and begun to go dormant by now …. but no, not my roses! Some of my other plants seems to be on the dumb side too.

Along with several other roses, my Compte de Chambord is still putting out lovely rose buds. Oh and they smell heavenly! Compte de Chambord has a beautiful old rose perfume scent and as I said, the roses and rose buds are still full of their lovely scent.

Compte De Chambord rose bud
Compte de Chambord rose bud

I took this photo last weekend. It was quite windy so I had to hold the rose stem while taking the picture, but the leaves and other plants near it were blowing in the wind, hence the interesting blurred effect in the background.

Even my Lavender has started to bloom again … I have no idea why. It’s not like I’m out there watering, amending soil or putting my secret sauce (Alfalfa Tea) on my plants. I’m not doing a thing to my garden .. yet it’s thriving.

Here’s a single Lavender bloom …

Lavender bloom
Lavender bloom

And here’s one of my Lavender plants, blooming (a little bit) and looking terribly healthy for this time of year.

Lavender blooming in October?
Healthy blooming Lavender plant - October

Is your garden asleep for the winter or is it still struggling to perform as if it were summer?

Filed Under: Canada, Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Shopping, Toronto, Tricia's Garden, Web and Technology Tagged With: autumn, cold_weather, dormant, dumb_roses, flowers, garden, Green_Thumb_Sunday, GTS, lavender, lavender_blooming, October, rose, rose_bud, windy, winter

A perfect gift for someone recovering from surgery in the hospital?

November 2, 2008 by Tricia

Chris was just talking to our friend J. She lives out of town with her husband, but in three weeks she’ll be in Toronto for open heart surgery! She’s had some heart problems for a while and it’s time to get them fixed before her problem gets worse.

When we talked to J’s husband earlier in the week we invited him to stay with us while his wife is in the hospital. He hadn’t even thought of where he might stay or even how much parking would cost if he spent most of the day in the hospital at his wife’s bedside.

We aren’t sure how long our friend will be in the hospital, but we do know she’ll be sedated and intubated for a few days after the surgery so that she can recover from the surgery better, so I expect she’ll be in the hospital for one to two weeks or longer. Can you imagine how much it would cost her husband to stay in a hotel and to park his car at the hospital on and off for two weeks? Or to drive back and forth from where they live (two hours from Toronto)? Yeah, so he’ll save a LOT of money if he stays with us!

Anyway … I know what being in the hospital is like. It’s noisy, it’s boring and if you aren’t feeling well it’s even worse. It’s nice to have friends and relatives drop in, but that can make you even more tired. So I was trying to think of something that we could get our friend so that she could pass the time in the hospital.

I just visited Buy.com to check out their weekly sale page, but I didn’t find anything that might be appropriate for someone recovering from surgery in the hospital. Then I had a great idea. Why not get her a portable DVD player? I was looking at the Philips DCP750 and it looks like it has all the features she’d need.

Now I just have to secretly find out if she has a portable DVD player and if she’d be allowed to use it while she’s in the hospital. I’m pretty sure that once she’s out of Intensive Care she’d probably be allowed to use it. It would certainly be a great way to pass the time and both she and her husband could spend time watching movies on the DVD player.

Does that sound like a good gift for someone spending a couple of weeks in the hospital? Any other ideas?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Gifts, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Movies, Toronto, Video Tagged With: DVD_player, gift, gift_idea, Hospital, hospital_parking, hospital_stay, intubated, open_heart_surgery, portable_dvd_player, recovery, sale, save_money, stay_at_house, weekly_sale

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