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Winter is coming soon!

November 3, 2010 by Tricia

I can’t believe that it’s already November. It seems like the last couple of months have just flown by.

It’s getting colder here too. Our furnace has been on several times each day over the last week or so. I guess it won’t be long before I’ll be pulling out our winter coats, hats and gloves.

I was looking out my kitchen window at my backyard and some of my neighbors backyards and I realized that we still have a lot of work to do to prepare for winter. We’ve done some yard work such as putting away the patio table and gathering up the solar lights and so on, but we still have to tidy up the garden beds and empty the pots and planters that held all of the annuals.

My neighbors are much further ahead then we are. One of our neighbors plant their whole backyard with veggies in early summer and they just cleared everything out a week or so ago so their yard is just soil now. Another neighbor was working in his backyard today, putting away his plant pots and other gardening tools and making sure the hot tub cover is secure and he moved his BBQ right outside his patio door for easy winter barbecuing.

Hopefully it’s not too cold this coming weekend, because we’re going to have to get out there and get all of the work done that needs to be done before winter arrives.

Oh and on Saturday I saw my first snow! How sad. My husband and I were standing in the kitchen and we both saw what we at first thought was rain, but then we realized that it was snow falling. It actually snowed hard enough that the ground was wet for a while afterwords. Thankfully it melted right away!

Is it getting colder in your area too? Have you seen any snow yet?





Filed Under: Canada, Gardening, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, The Neighborhood, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: annuals, BBQ, cold weather, first snow, garden beds, melted, neighbors, patio table, plants, potted plants, solar lights, tidy garden, winter, yard work

Beautiful October Day

October 27, 2010 by Tricia

Even though it’s late October, we’ve been having fairly warm weather here in Toronto this week.

I think it got up to 21 C (70 F) earlier today. It was windy though. We had severe wind warnings this afternoon. Good thing the wind was warmish and not freezing cold!

I didn’t really notice any really bad winds in my area so I took the dog out for a long walk in the afternoon. It was just too nice a day not to get outside and enjoy. I mean – in a month or so it will be cold here and there might even be some snow on the ground by then … so I might as well take advantage of a decent day. Right?

I bumped into a neighbor that I hadn’t seen for several weeks while I was out and I guess she noticed that I’ve been losing some weight. My clothes are getting baggy! She actually asked me if I’ve been using weight loss pills but as my regular readers know – my weight loss is all due to the migraine medication I’m taking.

How was the weather in your area today? Was it a little warmer than normal?

Filed Under: Canada, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Toronto Tagged With: beautiful, day, nice, October, severe winds, walked dog, warm, warmer, weather, winds, windy

Bumps and Bruises

October 27, 2010 by Tricia

I just noticed a bruise on my arm that I can’t for the life of me remember getting. Isn’t that bad?

I mean, the bruise is pretty big – you’d think I’d remember bumping into something or maybe my dog jumping at me, but no, I can’t think of any reason as to why I’d have a bruise on my arm.

Now that I think of it I have a few bruises on my body. I can remember how I got a few of them – I’m kind of clumsy so it’s not uncommon for me to bump into things or to trip on my dogs toys since she leaves them scattered on the floor, usually right in a doorway.

One of the medications I take is made up of a derivative of salicylic acid so I guess you could say it’s kind of like aspirin. Certainly it’s properties are similar. It’s an anti-inflammatory for Crohns and yes – it can also thin your blood like Aspirin can. This medication doesn’t usually cause problems for me, but maybe it’s why I’m bruising more than usual lately.

Do you ever get bruises or scrapes that you just can’t remember getting?

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Items to Try Tagged With: arm, aspirin, blood thinner, bruise, bruised, bumps, clumsy, forgot, remember, Sore, strange

An Update – Still not smoking!

October 26, 2010 by Tricia

I quit smoking on October 12th after having smoked for more than 25 years. It was hard, but I’ve reached the two week point and I’m still not smoking.

I’m proud of myself.

Most days are fairly easy to get through, but every few days I’ll have a day where I get cravings several times and it puts me more on edge.

I’m still taking Zyban (Wellbutrin) to help control the cravings. I think it makes walking by people who are smoking out side stores and malls a lot easier. I certainly don’t like the smell as I pass by smokers.

I don’t think my body likes me quitting smoking though. I have Crohn’s and it’s actually supposed to be better for me if I quit, but I think the transition from smoker to non-smoker is wreaking havoc with my digestive tract. To put it mildly I had a couple of days where it was almost like I’d had a delivery from www.coloncleansingpills.net if you know what I mean. Luckily that side effect seems to be settling down, although my abdomen is still quite painful.

Any other former smokers reading this? Did your body rebel on you for a week or two or maybe longer after you quit?

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Items to Try Tagged With: abdomenal pain, body, bowels, cravings, crohns, easy, non smoker, quit smoking, smell, two weeks, zyban

Changing doctors

October 26, 2010 by Tricia

Earlier this year I got a letter from my family doctors office stating that she was taking a leave of absence from her practice. The letter made me believe that the other doctors at the clinic would take over my care until she returned or else one of them would permanently take over my care.

Uh huh … wrong!

Luckily I only had to go to the family doctor once since I got that letter and then two months later I got a call from the head doctor at the clinic and she told me that it didn’t look like my old doctor was coming back and that none of the other doctors there could take new patients. Nice treatment for someone who’d been seeing that doctor for 12 years.

So I kind of feel like I’ve been abandoned by my family doctor and the clinic she assumed would take over my care. Oh and get this – My family doctor had made a movie two years ago – one that she tried very hard to get into the 2009 Toronto film Festival – I think she left her practice to keep trying to get her movie into smaller film festivals and fringe festivals. I even found some information on the internet that makes it look like she’s now turning her movie into a play. No wonder I feel abandoned.

So … I asked my pain doctor to be my family doctor. It works well for me since I see her pretty much once a month anyway and even better it’s walking distance from my home. The only problem is that now I have to get my medical records transferred over from the old doctors office. Naturally their going to charge me for document scanning and it won’t be cheap. Since my doctor pretty much abandoned me and the clinic that was supposed to take over my care refused I don’t think I (and my husband too since he was a patient there as well) should have to pay a fee to have my chart transferred to another doctor.

Do you think that’s fair?

Filed Under: Canada, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Toronto Tagged With: abandoned, changing doctor, clinic, Family doctor, fee, film festival, medical leave, medical records, movie, play, unfair

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