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It’d be nice to be able to see a doctor when I’m sick

August 22, 2007 by Tricia

Here it is another Wednesday and I still haven’t done my Wordless Wednesday post. At least this time I don’t think it’s Tuesday or something. That’s happened recently.

I’m still just plain not feeling well. Yesterday I had massive fevers and I suspect that I do today as well. I just haven’t bothered to stick a thermometer in my mouth yet to find out. What’s the point anyway – I’ve almost always got a fever these days.

I can’t get an appointment with my gastrointernologist for two months! Even though I’ve gone downhill he’s just too booked up to see me until then. I am on the waiting list though so if someone cancels I might get an earlier appointment.

I guess if I get any worse before I can see my doctor I’ll have to go to the ER. I really don’t want to do that, but the fact that I’m getting sicker and having so many more fevers probably means I’ve got an abscess somewhere in my abdomen, or that the one that they’ve thought I’ve had for a couple of years is getting worse. Isn’t Crohn’s a lovely disease.

I’ve also still got my headache. It was a full blown migraine on Sunday, but since then it’s just been a tolerable headache. Funny that it gets worse when my fever goes up. That’s why I think I’ve got another abscess or infection going on. Headaches, fevers and infection seem to go hand in hand.

So, as a result of my not feeling so hot I have been slow to respond to email, blogroll requests and as you can see I haven’t been replying to comments on my blogs either. I’m very sorry about that.

I really appreciate the kind words that have been left on my “I’m sick” posts, and your sometimes funny and always interesting comments that you’ve been leaving on my regular posts. I will try to get around to replying to those soon.

I always appreciate the visitors to my various sites and I hope that no one has taken my lack of response the wrong way. I just don’t have the energy to reply sometimes.





Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease Tagged With: abcess, abdomen, appointment, blog, blogs, comment, comments, crohn, crohns, doctor, ER, fever, gastrointernologist, headache, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, Hospital, hot, IBD, ill, Inflammatory bowel disease, migraine, pain, posts, sick, visitors

Oh my head!

August 21, 2007 by Tricia

I’m having terrible luck these days.

I feel like I’ve been getting sicker and sicker with my Crohn’s disease over the last few weeks. Then last week I had flu like symptoms that hung on until Saturday or so and then as if that wasn’t bad enough I woke up with a terrible migraine on Sunday.

My headache was so bad that I lay on the couch most of the day and evening and took far too many Tylenol. Late in the evening I tried putting a heating pad on my neck and shoulders and it helped a bit but not enough.

Finally Chris offered to massage my neck and shoulders so I sat on the floor in front of him while he kneaded my neck, shoulders and back. Every time he tried to massage with a bit of force it hurt really bad. I know he wasn’t massaging hard at all but it left my whole upper back and lower neck feeling bruised! In fact the area still has a tender bruised feeling and it’s more than 48 hours later!

Oh and I still have a headache! Not as bad as on Sunday, but it’s still there.

I wish all these aches, pains and symptoms would just go away. Even if they’d only disappear for a day I’d be happy.

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Life with Chris Tagged With: aches, aching, back, bruised, Chris, couch, crohn, crohns, disease, flu, headache, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, heating pad, hurt, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, migraine, muscles, neck, offer, pain, Saturday, shoulders, sick, sunday, symptoms

Now I’ve got the flu?

August 17, 2007 by Tricia

I swear I’m getting sicker and sicker. Now I think I might have the flu or a similar bug.

When I got up yesterday I noticed that the right side of my neck hurt. I thought that maybe I’d just slept in a funny position.

Usually if something like that happens the sore area feels better once you get up and start moving around. Unfortunately the painful area grew and grew. Soon my right shoulder was hurting and I had pain going down my back. After an hour or two the crampy sore muscle pain even went into my right leg and around my right rib cage.

So effectively my whole right side was hurting from the top of my neck to just below my knee.

I was puzzled. I even asked my husband who’s home on holiday if I was sleeping in a weird position or thrashing around. Did I fall out of bed?

On top of all this muscle pain I had a fever. Fevers are pretty common for me but I can usually control them with Tylenol. Yesterday my fever only went down for an hour even though I had 3 extra strength Tylenol spaced out over 12 hours.

So on top of a steadily worsening Crohn’s flare I now seem to be fighting the flu. Or something.

I finally fell asleep on the couch last night at about 2:30 am but I woke up around 4:30 am and I’ve been up ever since. It’s just after 10 am now. I can’t even get a decent sleep anymore. Forget sleeping for eight or even six hours, four in a row would be nice. With this lack of sleep and constant pain it’s no wonder I seem to have picked up a summer bug.

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Life with Chris Tagged With: constant, couch, crohn, crohns, fell asleep, fever, fevers, flare, flu, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, hurting, husband, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, muscle aches, muscles, night, pain, right side, sick, sleeping, Sore

Hiccups and nausea don’t mix!

August 17, 2007 by Tricia

OMG I’ve got the hiccups and they won’t stop! Hiccups really hurt when you’ve got inflamed messed up insides. On top of that I think I’ve got the flu and I’m nauseated.

Have you ever had the hiccups when you’re nauseated?

I don’t believe that I have before so this is a first and I’m not liking it one bit.

I have a feeling that this won’t end well …

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease Tagged With: bad situation, flu, Hiccups, hurt, inflamed, messed up insides, mix, nausea, nauseated

All alone

August 15, 2007 by Tricia

Yesterday I was supposed to go to Brantford with my husband to see his family and spend some time with his brother before he goes back to Chicago, but I had yet another bad night and Chris went on his own.

So I’ve been home alone all day yesterday and all night.

That’s ok. I don’t think I make very good company when I’m not feeling well. I spent a good portion of the day lying on the couch mindlessly watching TV. I only do that when I’m really not feeling up to much else and I just hate it.

I’m hoping that I’ll start to feel a bit better this week. Chris took this whole week off work so I’m hoping we can do something fun on our own and maybe get a bit more work done in our garden.

One side effect of my brother in laws visit was that he brought a big bag of Cheetos with him. Now I haven’t had Cheetos for a long time! I love them – they don’t love me, but I love them. So … I’ve been snacking on them here and there.

Hey it’s hard to resist a snack that you like when you haven’t had it for years! LOL

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Entertainment, Family, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Recreation, Television, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: brother, chicago, Chris, company, couch, Family, garden, holiday, home, husband, off work, on vacation, plants, vacation, visit, watching, watching TV, week off

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