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Frustrating doctors appointment

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The week before last I went to see my pain doctor. It was not a good visit. In fact I came home so upset I started crying and my poor puppy who’d never seen me upset like that didn’t know what the heck was going on.

Why was I so upset? A medical student. My pain doctor occasionally has medical students in her office. She lets them talk to her patients while she sees another patient then she comes in and talks to her patient with the medical student present.

drug treatment as she’s always telling me about new medications that will be coming out soon that might help me with the pain from my Crohns.





Aches and pains

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OMG. I can’t wait for spring to come.

I’m so tired of this extreme cold weather we’ve been having! It’s literally making my bones ache. Remember I’ve got Crohn’s and it can affect your joints so I think that’s why my knees have been hurting so much lately. It’s a bad combination of auto immune disease, probably some old injuries from my running days and frigid weather.

It makes me wonder how bad my knees will feel when I’m older! Actually it makes me feel like applying for medicare insurance now! LOL

Sometimes I get achy knees just before we’re going to have a storm or just before it gets really humid here too.

Do you get aches and pains in the cool winter months or when the weather changes?

How to keep the dog from damaging our couch?

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Lately I’ve been wondering how much longer our leather couches will look good. We’ve been letting our puppy get up on the couch so that she can sit with us, but occasionally she’ll try to bit the couch or tries to dig in the seats. I wonder what the couches will look like 6 months from now?

I’d love it if our basement was finished already. I’d move our couch, loveseat and lazyboy chair downstairs and use it like leather home theater seating set since we plan to set up a home theater in the basement if we go the rec room route.

I really don’t mind having the dog on the couch … well as long as our furniture can stand up to it.

Do you let your dog or cat on the couch? How do you keep them from ruining your furniture? Just keep telling them no when they are doing something that might damage the couch?

Our neighbors are trying to sell their house in January – Good Luck!

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Well our neighbors home is up for sale again! They must really want to move. Who puts their house up for sale in January the coldest month of the year here in Toronto?

Once they took their for sale sign down and said they were getting some repairs done on the house (changing from oil to gas heating, new furnace and who knows what else) I didn’t really expect to see a for sale sign go up before March or April.

I think in Northern climates most people who are thinking of selling their homes try to put it up for sale in the early Spring. I’ve never sold a home, but that’s certainly the time of year that I went looking to buy a house.

In my personal experience that’s a good time to look for a new home. The snow is melting or melted so you can see the whole house – foundation and all. I mean, you want to be able to see if there are any problems right? Sure you can get an inspection done, but everything’s easier when you can actually visualize the whole house and structure. The yards also look better too which makes the houses more appealing.

Also, when I went searching for a home to buy I saw probably close to 50 homes. The majority had leaky basements. How do I know? Well it rains quite a bit in the spring and a lot of the houses literally had puddles of water in the basement. Some had several inches of water. In fact, I think this house was the only one with a dry basement. I knew right away that the foundation was probably in great shape! That’s something that you wouldn’t be able to tell very easily when buying a house in the dead of winter!

As far as I’m concerned they might as well have a sign on their lawn saying Tennessee land for sale for all the good putting their house up for sale now will do them. I wish them luck, I really do … but their house still needs a lot of work. They haven’t modernized it at all. Perhaps they are thinking a desperate home buyer will come along.

We finally got some more snow

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Well we got some more snow yesterday. One of my regular readers had comments on one of my weekend posts that it looked like we had no snow. We didn’t! It was freezing cold here for the last week and there wasn’t a flake of snow on the ground.

Those of you who don’t garden or don’t experience severe cold weather may not realize this, but when it’s really cold outside the snow helps to insulate and protect the plants in our yards. When there’s no snow the plants are exposed to all of the elements and it’s not a surprise when you end up losing a few plants in the spring as a result. So I’m happy that it snowed!

Our puppy is happy that it snowed too. She just loves to jump around in the snow and even roll in it. I have a feeling she’d be happy if there was snow outside all year round! I’ll take that as a sign that she’ll probably also enjoy the beach and frolicking in the water come summer.

You know what’s really weird? Over the weekend we went to Walmart to get a few things and on probably the coldest day of the year so far we saw a man walking around with a set of Cleveland golf clubs. I can’t remember where I saw the man – perhaps it was outside one of the malls we went to … but it sure was strange seeing someone walking around with a big golf club bag when it was so very cold outside.

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