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Sick House

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Chris came home from work yesterday with an upset stomach. He just felt off all evening. I had a feeling that he wouldn’t be feeling well today and as it turns out he went to work, but returned only two hours after he’d started.

It looks like he’s got the flu. He’s just crashed on the couch and our puppy is jumping on him like he’s a mini trampoline. Poor guy!

So far I don’t seem to have any symptoms, but my Crohn’s is acting up today (what else is new!) so I’m not feeling quite up to par either. I hope I don’t get the flu as that just makes my Crohn’s even worse.

This evening we’re supposed to go to our Intermediate dog training class at Petsmart, but at this point I don’t know if we’ll be going. I hate missing classes as it seems like a waste of money even though our dog trainer is more than happy to set aside some time after class to catch us up on what we’ve missed.

Anyone else have the flu running through their house?





I wish I hadn’t woken up this morning …

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My husband had an early shift at the hospital today. He was supposed to get up about about 5:15 in order to get ready for his shift. Lucky for him I woke up at about 6:20 a.m. and realized that he hadn’t gotten up yet!

As I was waking him up I realized that I was in horrible pain. The lower right side of my abdomen was just killing me. The was, and still is, similar to what I think a cross between appendicitis and a kidney stone feels like. Still … Chris had to get ready for work so as he went off to take a shower and shave I got his breakfast ready for him.

Aren’t I good wifey? In total pain and still taking care of my man. Uh huh – just a typical woman probably.

Chris went off to work and I settled on the couch with the puppy. Poor Midnight ended up spending more time in her crate today than out though since my pain continued all day. Lucky for me it did get a little bit better, but I had fevers at least four times so far today.

I spent most of the day on the couch watching TV, and surfing on the computer, browsing through a furniture catalog to get ideas for some posts on one of my other sites and trying on and off to sleep.

So I think I only had three hours sleep last night and so far only 10 minutes sleep during the day at about 3:30 – just before Chris came back home from work.

It’s a good thing I got up early for Chris sake, but bad for mine … I’d much rather have spent my day sleeping rather than in horrible pain.

Man I hate having Crohns.

Well so far this year sucks too

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It seems that my bad week, or maybe I should call it my bad year, continues.

I was so sick on Saturday that I stayed in bed until 8:30 pm! I had my period and the pain was so bad that I just couldn’t move. I’ve got endometritis, combined with Crohn’s disease it’s a real killer, and that causes me a ton more pain than anyone should ever have to go through. On top of that I broke out with a couple of zits. The last thing I need these days is to have to use an acne treatment too! Geesh!

The pain in my left side was so bad that I thought I’d end up in the hospital that day. I don’t know if the pain was from my Crohn’s or Endo. It wouldn’t go away at all no matter how much medicine I took and the only thing that made it feel a bit better was to keep my hand pressed to my side for hours on end. It finally started to ease up at about 6:30 that evening, but I stayed in bed for another two hours until I was sure I felt better.

Chris had been bringing me drinks all day. Warm drinks like coffee. He’d also been checking on me and bringing me pain medications whenever I called out for some more. By the time I came downstairs I was weak and dizzy. I think the pain meds took their tole on me and I kind of felt hung over. I also hadn’t eaten all day so I think that’s partly why I was so weak and dizzy.

I still have twinges of that nasty pain in my left side even today. I guess i”m still recovering from whatever my body was going through on Saturday. It’s been no where near as bad as it was on Saturday but it’s still hanging around. Seriously that day I wondered if either a cyst burst or even if my bowel burst and if I was getting peritonitis.

I just want to feel better. Even if it’s only for one day.

Wondering when the axe will fall

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I was just talking about how much I’d like to get back to work, but I’ve been on medical leave for 25 months now. It’s hard to imagine that I’ve been off for so long!

Almost every day I wonder when the phone will ring and on the other end it will be the oc health department at the hospital calling to tell me that they can’t extend my medical leave any longer. If that happens I’ll be very upset.

Since I’m officially on medical leave I still have my full time position. It’s being held for me. I also have health benefits. I do have to pay a certain amount each year – money that would normally be taken from my paychecks, but I’m still covered.

If I ever do get that call I’ll have to switch over to a private family or individual health insurance plan. Actually, Chris works at the hospital. He’s only part time (but works almost full time hours). I think he can apply for health coverage. I should get him to check on that and we could switch over. Then if the axe does fall we’ll at least still have continued health insurance coverage.

Do you have health insurance from your workplace?

Peaceful sleep

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This was me yesterday!

I didn’t sleep all night Tuesday night and when I finally did fall asleep in the morning my puppy started making a ton of noise in her crate. She was pulling her dog bed apart! So of course that got me up and I couldn’t get back to sleep. By noon or so I could barely see! My vision was blurred and I was also seeing double. I seriously thought that either something was wrong with my eyes or that I’d accidentally taken an extra pain pill and was o.d.’ing! I think I was just so overtired that my eyes were the first to fail!

I finally fell asleep that day at 2:30 in the afternoon but woke up at 4:30 when the puppy again got me up. Chris got home around 6 pm and by 8 pm I fell asleep on the couch and slept on and off all night (on the couch) right through until maybe 10 am Thursday.

I’m sure I probably looked like this cat as I slept soundly on the couch!

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