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Feeling Stressed

December 20, 2011 by Tricia

For some reason my head has been filled with all of the things that I have to do for the last few weeks. By things I have to do I don’t just mean holiday kinds of things I mean getting the upcoming taxes done and cleaning the clutter out of the house and several other much more serious things. I’ve been under a lot of stress lately and things might be changing around here in the near future.

One of the things I’ve been thinking about – oddly enough … is the fact that I have a pop up trailer stored on my husbands aunts property. I think she’s wanted us to move it for quite a while. We haven’t used it in ages and I’m not sure we’ll ever be using it again … so I think it’s time to take it to an rv repair place and get it fixed up and then maybe think about selling it. I’d love to keep it in the hopes that I would use it – but really, I’ve had it for about 15 years and I’ve only used it maybe three times and that was in the first few years. So I guess this is just more “clutter” to be cleared.

It’s funny the things that go through your head when you feel like you have a lot of things to do but you’re trying to figure out where to start? Ok … time to go and try to de-stress .. like that’s possible these days.

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Toronto Tagged With: cleaning, clutter, destress, holiday, serious, Stress, things to do, think, thinking, trailer, weeks

My Dog has a Sore Toe

December 6, 2011 by Tricia

My dog seems to have something wrong with one of her back toes. I’m not sure exactly what’s happened to it. It’s red and raw looking above the nail area on the outside of her paw. It sure doesn’t help that she keeps licking it. I’m sure that is making it more irritated and swollen looking.

I’ve been wondering if it’s the way she walks when my husband takes her on long walks that’s the problem. He walks he with a short leash and she tends to pull a lot and I’ve been wondering if by the end of the walk if she drags her foot or if her hips are acting up at all. I don’t usually go on these walks so I don’t get a chance to observe her gait but maybe the next time he takes her on an extra long walk I’ll try to go or at least get him to let me know when they are getting close to home so I can watch my dog walk and see if there is a problem with either using the short leash or with her walk.

In the mean time .. I have to figure out how to treat her toe. Too bad I can’t put one of these comfortable looking easy spirit shoes one her feet! She’d love that. LOL

I was thinking of getting some kling wrap and using that on her foot. I’d put some antibiotic ointment on the wound, then some gauze, and then after that I’d wrap her foot in the kling wrap. I think it would hold and that she wouldn’t be able to get it off to easily.

Any other ideas?

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Our Puppy, Pets and animals Tagged With: antibiotic ointment, back toe, drag foot, gait, gauze, hip, hip oroblem, ideas, kling wrap, leash, licking, long walks, pulling, raw, Red, short leash, sore toe, treat toe, walk

Puncture marks in my neck!

November 24, 2011 by Tricia

I’m in recovery mode tonight. Earlier today I had to go to the hospital for a thyroid biopsy. I’ve had thyroid biopsies before and normally it’s not that bad, but this time my neck is pretty sore. It’s swollen too. I think everything is ok though – I’m certainly keeping an eye on things.

The irony of the situation is that I’m supposed to have a thyroid biopsy every 6 months but because my doctors be very slow this “6 month check up” has taken almost two years! Hopefully the results are benign again. If they are I’ll buy my doctor some cohiba cigars dominican as a gift … well maybe not … I have been waiting a long time to have this test done.

I think I’ll go and get an icepack to put on the side of my neck. It sort of feels like a cross between a sore throat (it hurts a bit to swallow) and pulled neck muscles, so I’m sure the cold pack will help a bit.





Filed Under: Canada, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Ontario Health Care, Toronto Tagged With: check up, doctor, Hospital, hurts, needle, pulled muscles, recovery, sore neck, sore throat, swallow, swollen, test, thyroid biopsy

I seem to be fighting a bug

November 12, 2011 by Tricia

I’ve been so busy working on another project the last couple of weeks that I haven’t had time to update this blog. Sorry! I guess it doesn’t help that I’ve also been sick with some kind of respiratory infection too does it? I think that’s getting worse as well – I’m kind of wheezy this evening and I’m crossing my fingers hoping that whatever this is isn’t turning into bronchitis or pneumonia!

I think I’m going to pamper myself later tonight. Soak in the tub and then treat my skin with some premier dead sea skin care products that a friend sent me this past week. The steam from the bath will do my respiratory system good and the skin care products will do my skin good.

Have you been fighting any bugs that are going around at this time of year? Usually I’m ok and I don’t get every little thing that’s going around, but this year I seem to be catching everything. I think I’m just too stressed out lately or something.

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, skin care, Toronto Tagged With: bath, bug, catch, respiratory infection, sick, skin care, soak

Do you take your dog on Adventures?

October 20, 2011 by Tricia

I know that quite a few of my regular readers are also pet owners. Those of you who own dogs – do you take your dog out for big walks or “adventures” on a regular basis?

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We’re lucky living in the city that we live in – we have beautiful parks, hiking trails, beaches right on one of the Great Lakes (Lake Ontario) – hmmm and I’m talking in relation to being a dog owner – but that’s pretty good as far as just living in the city too. Right?

Anyway, for most of the year, with the exception of the coldest months of the year (December through March) we try to our Labrador Retriever for special hikes in some of our favorite parks or take her to the beach for a swim. There’s this area in Toronto called Cherry beach that has a section of beach where dog owners can take their dogs and let them run off leash on the beach and they just love it. We take Midnight there as much as we can in summer as she just loves to swim and play with other dogs.

Just about two weeks ago – on our Canadian Thanksgiving – my husband and I took Midnight to one of our favorite off leash hiking trails. It has a pond that she loves to dip in at the end of her long walk near some steel buildings and she just loves running along the trail exploring and waiting for us to catch up to her.

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I’d love to be able to take her to the beach or to one of the parks where we go for hikes almost every day but that’s just not possible, but we do try to take her to those kind of places about twice a week. The rest of the time she gets walked at least twice a day – big long walks, so she’s well exercised.

So back to my question – do you take your dog on adventures?

Filed Under: Canada, Items to Try, Our Puppy, Pets and animals, Recreation, Toronto, Walking Tagged With: adventures, beach, dog adventure, dog owner, fun, great city, hikes, hiking trail, labrador retriever, Midinght, other dogs, park, playing, pond, running, Thanksgiving, things to do, Toronto, trail

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