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If I was a horse you’d shoot me …

May 13, 2007 by Tricia

I really wanted to get around to all my Green Thumb Sunday participants today. I wanted to see what’s blooming in their gardens and weed the sites out that haven’t been participating in quite a while. I also wanted to visit some of the sites of people who participate in Photo Hunters and the Do Follow blogroll.

I had hoped to get into my garden for at least an hour to work on pruning and tidying the areas that I haven’t touched yet.

Most important of all I wanted and needed to redesign the theme for this blog – I’m tired of it, and I need to redesign it so I can put some ads up for the new network that I’ve been accepted into (my big deal!!), and to top it all off I wanted to re-design my husbands blog Guitar Licks too because it’s theme totally sucks and I’ve got a really cool theme to use for that site.

Forget mothers day. I’m not a mom. Chris’ family never got it together to do anything for his mom this weekend either so our Sunday was supposed to be free … for me to work …

I wasn’t able to do any of that today.

I think whatever my husbands been fighting since Friday got to me. Except since I have Crohn’s disease it hit my stomach hard and I’ve been in awful pain all day. Not to mention almost constantly feverish.

I feel horrid. I wasn’t able to eat much either. I tried to eat dinner but my abdomen really started to hurt once I got a bit of food down and I had to stop. I hope I’m not going into yet another flare. I’ve already been in a constant flare for more than two years – I don’t need it to peak again.

I’m so sick of this. I can’t make any plans. I can’t even rely on the small plans I make for myself because it always depends on how I’m feeling. This makes me feel useless.

I want to go to a big blogging convention in Las Vegas in November and I’m being asked already if I’m going and, honestly, I can’t say. All I can say is that I want to go. For all I know I’ll either be so sick I’ll be in the hospital at that time, or I might be feeling healthy for the first time in two years. I just don’t know.

Instead, on days like today I’m just lying on the couch, grimacing in pain. Watching TV to try to take my mind off of the hell my body is putting me through. At least I had the Survivor finale to watch this evening. Good going Earl!

If life’s a race I’m falling behind … and If I were a race horse people would be thinking about putting me down about now.





Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Family, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Television, Web Design Tagged With: blog, Blogging, crohns, crohns disease, design, dinner, fever, Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, guitar, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, Hospital, husband, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, life, pain, Photo Hunters, sick, stomach, Survivor, too sick to eat, watching TV

Slant board inversion therapy

May 10, 2007 by Tricia

Have you heard of inversion therapy? If so, you’re probably familiar with the version where people actually hang upside down by their feet or legs. While there are benefits to that particular form of inversion therapy it too can be hard on your body. Particularly if you already have a back problem. These positions can often be quite uncomfortable too.

A gentler and much easier form of Inversion therapy is through the use of slant boards. Slant boards have often been recommended by such specialists as chiropractors, colon therapists, doctors and other health professionals.

Slant boards can be used to reduce fatigue, relieve stress and to strengthen and firm muscles.

Inversion therapy is said to relieve fatigue and stress by taking some of the pressure off the bodies organs.

Considering that your body is only slightly inverted – head down, feet up on literally a slanted board, the position is much easier on your body and much more comfortable over all. I can see how this kind of inversion therapy might help relieve the stress on a person with a sore back, or even a pinched nerve in their back. Also, perhaps this is why colon therapists recommend the slant board as well. People with pinched nerves in their back can and often do have problems going to the washroom. Perhaps relieving some of the stress on the nerves of the back also helps the bowels to function better too. Also, if the board helps you strengthen your muscles we all know that strong stomach muscles help a bad back. It makes sense to me.

Certainly if I were going to try inversion therapy I would be more likely to try a slant board over the totally upside down method of inversion therapy. Since it’s a more natural position for our bodies I’d think that I’d be more likely to use it regularly.

What do you think? Has anyone tried using a Slant Board or other forms of Inversion therapy before? What was your experience like?

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Shopping Tagged With: chiropractors recommend, doctors recommend, inversion therapy, relieve fatigue, relieve stress, Slant boards, strengthen muscles, take pressure off nerves, take pressure off organs

Clearing the clutter

May 3, 2007 by Tricia

I keep thinking about work more and more. I really miss working in the ER. I still have no idea if or when I might be going back. I want to – at least on a part time basis if I can’t handle full time anymore, but I don’t know if that will happen or not.

I guess I’ve been thinking about work because it’s Spring time and I’ve been doing a lot of spring cleaning. My closet is full of nursing uniforms and I don’t know what to do with them. They’re taking up a lot of space. I think I might just fold them up and store them away in one of those clothes storage boxes.

I’m just so sick of this Crohn’s disease that it’s not funny. I know it won’t go away, but of course I can wish that all I want can’t I? If it would at least settle down and allow me to get some of my life back I’d appreciate it.

Anyone else spring cleaning these days and finding things you should put away or get rid of?

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease, Nursing Tagged With: clutter, crohns, ER, going back to work, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, IBD, ill, Inflammatory bowel disease, nursing uniforms, pain, part time, sick, Spring cleaning, work

Lazy day?

April 17, 2007 by Tricia

Sorry that I’ve been so quiet over here. Something weird is going on. Yesterday I didn’t feel too bad but I suddenly got tired around 7 pm and ended up crashing on the couch. I couldn’t get up. Finally around 7 a.m.

I made myself sit up and watch some really bad old sitcoms! Never saw Sirens before but I caught one with a young Will Wheaton in it.

I’ve just been in a lazy mood all day. I couldn’t make myself do much of anything. I’ve spent the day lying on the couch, curled up with my favorite blanket and lots of pillows.

The really odd thing is that my stomach/abdomen hasn’t really felt all that bad. Usually when I start sleeping a lot or end up lying on the couch all day it’s because I’m really sick and in pain. I have still had a lot of fevers, but again other than feeling wiped out I don’t feel all that bad.

Strange huh?

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease Tagged With: fevers, lazy, lying on couch, sleeping

I had the worst weekend!

April 11, 2007 by Tricia

I’m starting to feel like a broken record. “I don’t feel good” … I hope I don’t sound like that, really. In person or on this site. It’s just that, I really really don’t feel good! LOL

You know I like posting on my sites right? Well … if you don’t see new posts for day or more it’s probably because I’m not feeling all that well. I mean, I’m a woman … I can talk and post all day if I want to – it comes with the breed. We have lots to say. It’s just that when I’m feeling really bad I can’t make myself sit in front of the computer.

I thought that getting a laptop might help so I got one last August. My thinking at the time was that if I was having a bad day at least I could lie down or slouch on the couch (that rhymes!) and still type away, or at least surf my favorite sites. Stupid me … I’m a lefty and I like sitting or lying on the left hand side of the couch (left when facing) and uh … my left arm is touching the couches back. That makes it kind of hard to type. LOL

So you know what I do now when I’m lying on the couch not feeling well enough to sit up? I lie on my side, and have my laptop on the table next to the couch. I pull the table over so it’s touching the couch and lean in a weird position and type that way. I must say this works much better for surfing than it does for typing.

At least now that I have a laptop … well when my husband isn’t hogging it … I can go outside into my back yard garden with it, or uhm … I can lie in bed with it or even shhhhh take it in the bathroom. Shhhh I didn’t say that!

Having told you all the different ways that I can possibly use our computers, when I’m feeling good or bad, none of that helped me this weekend.

I have my bad days, and my semi better than bad days, but I think from Friday onward I’ve been the worst that I’ve been in a while. I might even be able to go back earlier than Friday, … but I know that whatever is going on got worse and worse from Friday onward.

I’ve been getting fevers in cycles of every two hours or so. It spikes up and I’m freezing and shivering, and then, maybe 20 minutes later I’m peeling off the sweater that I just put on because I’m too hot since the fever is coming down again. I’ll just start to feel better and boom another feverish spike. So on top of all the other medications that I take I’ve been taking Tylenol regularly for the last 6 or so days to try to control the fevers.

If you ever wondered why the domain that this website is on is called Feverishthoughts – well there’s your answer. Fevers are a regular part of my life. So is thinking.

I guess I withstood the fever spikes on Friday pretty well, but by Saturday they were taking their toll on me. My abdomen was aching and I was still feverish on and off. I went through a weird napping phase over the weekend and slept on the couch on and off from Saturday through to Sunday. I think the first time I slept in my own bed in days was Monday night.

Yesterday was the worst. Gut rot supreme. When I got up in the morning just looking at a glass of water almost made me lose whatever was in my stomach at the time. I think I got up around 9 a.m. and I managed to stay awake until about 3 pm, but then I crashed on the couch again until 6 or 7 pm. Spent a bit of time with my husband and then crashed on the couch between 10:30 pm and woke again at 3 a.m for an hour at the most. I thought I was wide awake, but ended up falling asleep on the couch again by 4 a.m and woke at 8 a.m. when my husband came down stairs for breakfast.

Today is going better. It’s going on 6 p.m. and I’m still awake. I’m still feverish and achy in a gut rot kind of way though.

What really killed me yesterday was that it was 1k Tuesday again. This time they were going to put out 5 $100 posts, and one $500 post. Judging by the leaderboard for the day I think they might have put out as many as 7 $100 posts. I missed all of them as I woozily lay on the couch with the lap top in front of me, watching all day (whenever I was awake that is) for big money writing opportunities to show up. The only one that I managed to see was the $500 posting opportunity at about 7:50 pm. I tried for it, but of course didn’t get it.

Oh well, them’s the breaks. I did get that excellent posting opportunity last Tuesday, and there’s two more 1K Tuesdays coming up this month. Maybe I’ll snag something on one of those.

Even though I still feel like crap today I’ve been working hard, trying to make up for not really doing much if any internet work over the weekend. Chris had a short day at work too and he’s been working on making some funds too. We actually broke a personal record today and we are both on the leaderboard at the same time. It might not last for the rest of the day, but as of right now, we’re both listed as being in the top 10 money earners for the day:

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That’s me at the top, yeahhhh, and Chris is second from the bottom in the second column. Cool huh? Together you can see that we’ve made over $200 US. We actually made a bit more than that too because we each did some work for other companies too. Whoohoo! Boooyahhh!

Being sick at home and not knowing when or if I’ll be going back to work sucks, but I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the companies that have enabled me to make some money from home, and the advertisers who’ve made that possible too of course. I always try to do a good job when I’m writing – paid or unpaid. I do hope that visitors to this site enjoy all of the posts and excuse my “feverish thoughts” from time to time too.

I think it might be time to go and lie down again. Hopefully I won’t fall asleep again! If you don’t hear from me for a while I’m still here, still reading … I’m just trying to feel better is all, and uh … I’m probably surfing your site in a weird and uncomfortable position while on the couch. LOL

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Finance, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Make Money, Sales and Marketing, Writing Tagged With: blog, Blogging, computer, crohns, fever, fever cycles, feverish, gut rot supreme, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, laptop, laying on couch, medication, Money, pain, posting, posts, sick, sleeping, sleeping on couch, Sore, surf, typing, typing in weird position, Writing

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