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Crohn’s flare again

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I’m having a Crohn’s flare yet again. I blame this one directly on the fact that I had to stop my Crohn’s meds last Thursday.

I’ve pretty much had a constant fever for days, pain in my abdomen and that awful crampy pain that you get when you have severe diarrhea. Oh yeah and it’s like I’ve taken some kind of natural appetite suppressants because I have absolutely no appetite.

Remember that post I wrote recently where I said the only benefit of being sick is the weight loss … well if I keep up this way I’m going to end up being too thin!

I hate being sick. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it!





What a beautiful Spring we’re having

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I was just saying on my gardening blog what a beautiful Spring it’s been here in Toronto and how well my garden is doing!

It looks like I didn’t lose any plants during the winter, which is a good thing since our winters can be quite harsh and it’s not uncommon for me to lose at least one rose if not more.

Right now the tulips are the stars of the garden. I have at least 7 types in bloom right now, with more to come by the end of May. The Daffodils are also blooming well, whereas the hyacinths and Glories of the snow are just about finished for the season.

One Spring flower that I always enjoy seeing each year are the Muscari or Grape Hyacinth. They’re tiny plants, only about 8 inches tall, but their flowers are so lovely and colorful.

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The flowers are purple, but they almost have a deep blue tone to them in this photograph, don’t they?

The majority of my tulips are white, but I also have several vibrant purple, orange and yellow tulips scattered throughout my garden. What I don’t have are very many red tulips. Here’s a picture of one of my lovely red tulips:

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Perhaps next fall I’ll buy more tulips bulbs and try to get more red ones. They certainly look beautiful in front of spring green plants.

How is your garden or yard doing this Spring?

I guess my new meds were working after all

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I wasn’t sure, but I guess my Crohn’s medication that I started about a month ago, Pentasa, after that whole Sulfasalazine fiasco, must have been working.

How do I know …. Well, yesterday i got a phone call from one of my doctors offices telling me that my Thyroid biopsy at the hospital is scheduled for next Thursday and I had to go off the Pentasa right away since it contains ASA.

I’ve been off the Pentasa for more than 30 hours and my stomach/ abdomen is getting more painful as each hour goes by. So unless I’m starting to fight another bug or my Crohn’s is getting worse that must mean the medicine was working and my body is feeling it now that I’m not taking it.

I hope the pain doesn’t get much worse as I have to wait probably until next Friday before I can start taking it again. It’s going to be a LONG week.

Maybe I’ll spend sometime this week just sitting in my garden and looking at all the flowers that are beginning to bloom. That is if I can just sit and enjoy … it seems that every time I go in my backyard I never just sit, I have to pull weeds or prune a dead branch off a rose … I just can’t help myself.

Hmm maybe I’ll try to start now …. I’ll go outside and enjoy the daffodils while they’re still here …

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Enjoy the weekend and try to get outside!

Anyone having problems with Hostgator lately?

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I’m having hosting problems again. If you’re a regular visitor to this site you’ve probably noticed that at times my blog (and all the other blogs I write) load really slow and sometimes you’ll see error messages scattered throughout the page as well.

I’ve also had problems with my Wp-posts databases crashing and needing repair too. Plus I often can’t edit old posts and get error messages when I try. Nor can I always post when I want to because of server slowness or errors. I’m just about at my wits end.

This started happening near the end of March. I think the reason my sites are having trouble is because HostGator upgraded their MySql to PHP 5.1 and it’s causing all the errors and slow load times.

Anyone else on HostGator experiencing problems in the last month or so? I’m sure there’s a few, as I’ve noticed some of the blogs I visit regularly loading really really slowly lately when they didn’t have problems in the past.

If they don’t fix the problem soon ie go back to a trouble free version of PHP I may be forced to look for a new host. I hate that idea! I’ve loved Hostgator since I started with them in 2007 after a terrible experience with Lunarpages.

Any suggestions? I have over 20 websites and blogs now with more on the way so I need a very good shared hosting package from a company that doesn’t overcrowded/oversell their servers or else move up to VPS hosting.

Speaking of Lunarpages … I finally transferred some of my old domains from their service in April. I didn’t have a hosting account with them any longer, but when I left I let them continue to handle my domains registration … bad move as this meant I had to deal with support several times each year begging them to renew my domains. Believe me, their support people need support and sales training in a big way! Anyway … my domains are now with GoDaddy … but get this … Lunarpages sent me a renewal notice today for one of my domains that they no longer control! So I’m still stuck dealing with their support trying to tell them that I really don’t have anything to do with them anymore! Arghhhh! Frustrating! They’d better not try to bill me!

So again, if you have any good hosting suggestions I’d love to hear about it, plus if you have any hosting horror stories feel free to pass that on too. LOL

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