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Spring has arrived

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Spring has definitely arrived in my garden. My crocuses have been blooming for the past week and now each day when I look out my window I see new growth in my garden beds.

Tulip, Daffodil and Iris leaves are pushing up through the ground and soon there will be other plants showing signs of life.

I’m so pleased to see more and more crocus flowers coming up and I know that in just a week or two I’ll have quite a variety of spring flowers in my yard. I love spring it’s definitely one of my favorite seasons. If you don’t grow your own flowers I hear that there are some good ProFlowers discounts that you might be interested in taking advantage of if your craving spring flowers too.

I’ll bring my camera outside with me tomorrow if the weather is nice and take some pictures of the crocuses in bloom and then I’ll post some pictures.





Battle of the Pumpernickel (or the Crohns is back)

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I’ve been quiet for a while because my abdomen has been acting up yet again. Yep … things were going so well for most of the last year, but Crohn’s has reared it’s ugly ugly head again and I’m suffering as a result.

It all started about a month ago … I bought a bread machine in mid-February because I wanted to start making healthy breads for my husband and I (even though I really don’t eat much bread or grains) and it seemed like the first few loaves that I made didn’t bother my stomach/abdomen at all … but towards the end of March I decided to try making my very first (and maybe my last) loaf of Pumpernickel bread and well … it seems that that turned out to be too much for my system to handle.

The Pumpernickel must have been quite strong because my husband would get stomach cramps if he ate a couple of pieces of pumpernickel in one day … for me all it took was half of a piece of bread!

Oh and the pain is still hanging around. I wasn’t completely pain free, but for most of the last year, my Crohn’s symptoms and the abdominal pain that I get from it was very tolerable, but once I ate that pumpernickel bread I was back in pretty much the worst pain.

Now I’m doing everything I can to calm my symptoms down. I’m not eating any breads or grains and I”m pretty much just eating baked or boiled chicken, potato and very mild bland foods that have never really bothered my digestive system in the past. I’m also drinking Aloe Vera Gel and talking acidophilus tablets as that can help calm the symptoms down too.

I’d rather just be concentrating on my websites. I want to change the theme for this one … I also want to try to find the time to check out seo elite … maybe now that I’m not feeling well would be the perfect time to sit back and do some reading and learn more about site SEO. I have several websites and because of that I never have time to learn a lot of new things anymore because I’m so busy just maintaining them.

Anyway … wish me luck on getting this stomach/ abdominal pain settled down again. I didn’t realize how much better I’d been feeling in the last year until the last few weeks when I began to feel so bad again. It’s awful. I hope I can get this under control again quickly.

Extreme wrist pain and a bad doctor

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I don’t know what I’ve done to myself over the last several months. I’m just a painful tired mess. Other than being extremely sleepy most of the time since November it’s my right wrist that probably ranks next on my list of complaints.

Oddly enough it was my left wrist that started hurting in October or November, but I got a mouse pad with a memory foam cushion (I’m left handed), and I applied heat to my wrist regularly and the pain went away within a week or two of regular care.

Then my right wrist started acting up and nothing I do seems to help. It just aches across the top of it. I take Advil, apply heat, give it a rest, stretch it when it hurts after too much rest (believe me my wrist wakes me up at night with the pain probably from not moving) and nothing works. I wish there was something like an aircast boot for my wrist. It wouldn’t work for me during the day – not with me working on the computer, but maybe at night.

My lousy family doctor won’t even do an X-ray or anything at all. She’s convinced it’s fibromyalgia even though when she’s tested me for it I don’t have any trigger points or any other symptoms … so no, I don’t think so. I see her again in a couple of weeks, if I talk to her about my wrist again and she refuses to do anything I think that will pretty much be the end of my relationship with my doctor. I can’t continue to see a doctor that’s not helping me can I? In the meantime I hope my wrist starts to feel better because it really hurts … I mean, I almost feel like screaming at night with the pain and I’m used to being in all kinds of pain what with my Crohn’s and all – so it’s bad.

Midnight barks too much when I video tape her

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I was videotaping my dog again earlier today and I’m trying to figure out how to stop her from barking when I’m trying to do close ups of her.

The real problem is that what I want to video tape is her playing with her dog bone because she jumps up and down like she’s on a trampoline and it’s hilarious, but as she’s waiting for us to shove the bone across the floor at her she starts barking in excitement … and it seems that the camera makes things worse.

I’d had for all of my videos to have to be to music just because my dog barked way too much. She really is hilarious!

Oh and while I’m talking about making videos … what do you use to edit your videos? There’s the Flipshare software that came with the camera but that doesn’t look quite as advanced as I’d like if I want to piece together several videos. Any suggestions? Nothing too expensive!

As I said yesterday when I posted my first video of our Lab Midnight being the crazy dog that she is I’ll be posting more videos to my YouTube account probably by tomorrow so check here if you want.

My skin is tired of winters cold dry air

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My skin is so dry. I hate winter! It’s so hard on the skin. We have humidifiers running in our house and I know that helps, my skin would be even drier without them, but I can’t wait until spring arrives and the air begins to have a little more moisture in it. I know my skin will appreciate it.

I complain that my skin feels dry but I’m not always the best about putting moisturizer on. So every few days when my skin really feels dry I really slather my hands and arms with hand cream until it feels better. I’m sure if I did it regularly my skin wouldn’t suddenly feel like I just came out of the desert or something. Of course, ever since we got our dog I kind of stopped putting hand and body cream on my skin because my dog is a licker. I can’t get a good answer from most of the skin cream companies as to whether their products are safe if pets lick them off our skin … so I don’t use them as much as I would if I didn’t have a dog that loved to lick.

I just slathered my hands with hand cream … I almost feel like I should have put wrinkle cream on them though! Hopefully they feel better soon. Does your skin ever get so dry that you feel like one coat of skin cream just won’t fix the problem?

As I said earlier I’ll be happier when spring and summer arrive. My skin loves the humidity.

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