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I’m miserable with a head cold

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OMG, I have a massive head cold. I’m absolutely miserable!

I can’t remember when I last had a cold, but it has to be 13 to 15 years ago! Yeah … somehow I lucked out and didn’t catch one for years, but I think I’m paying for that now. Sigh … cough cough sniffle.

My brother was here just after Christmas, he’d come to Toronto because my niece was getting married on the 30th of December. He’d had a cold earlier in the month when he was in the city on business and as it turns out he either still had it or got a new cold just as he was leaving Vancouver to come and stay with us at the end of December.

So I think he’s the one who passed on a cold to my husband and I. Darn brother!

I was sniffly last week and I thought that maybe I’d get past this with just mild cold. My husband had the sniffles too and his cold got worse towards the end of last week but was pretty much over after a day or two. I somehow still thought mine might not get worse.

I was wrong … wrong wrong wrong!

On Monday afternoon I got a bad fever, felt really tired and my sniffles got worse. By Tuesday my nose was running like Niagara falls! I think I’ve gone through at least two tissue boxes on my own.

Last night I went to the drug store to get some more decongestants and a nasal spray (which aren’t really helping much BTW) and my eyes were so blurry I almost walked up to the cash with a box of adipex diet pills.

I thought my cold would be better by today … especially with the nasal spray that I added to my arsenal last night but if anything it’s worse! My nose is running constantly, my eyes are tearing and my vision is blurred. I’m also dizzy when I get up and I’ve got pressure at the top of my head – probably from stuffed up sinuses. I’ve also barely slept in the last four days.

I’m miserable!

I hope that once I get over this cold I luck out and don’t get another one for another 10 to 15 years!

Don’t you just hate head colds?





No sign of our awful renter neighbors leaving any time soon

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I haven’t written about my awful renter neighbors for a while …

It doesn’t look like they’ll be leaving anytime soon, much to my dismay. Well .. unless they’re having trouble paying the rent again, that is. Hey, I can hope!

I am worried about them though! We’ve heard from friends of ours that used to live in the same apartment building as our renter neighbors (a few apartment buildings over the last several years) that they often don’t pay the rent or their bills and they have a history of drug abuse.

I’m pretty sure the stories about them using illegal drugs are true as they often look out of it when we see them on the street, especially lately! They also look older than the ages they told us they were when they moved in in September. They’d told us they were 31 or 32 but man, they look like they’re 10 or more years older, especially lately!

Every time we talk with the guy next door his eyes are slits and red rimmed and he seems confused or out of it. My husband and I don’t talk to the woman next door very often, but when we do she’s pretty much the same.

I feel bad for their kids. They have three of them – all girls and the youngest is about 2 years old. I’ve actually never even see the 2 year old, but my husband just saw her for the first time this week. It can’t be a good environment for them moving every few months because of unpaid bills and or rent and with parents that stay up all night possibly doing drugs. The best thing they can do for themselves and their kids is to perhaps check into a good drug rehab.

Anyway … if they manage to keep paying the rent they’ll be our neighbors until August, but I have a feeling that they’ll either get kicked out or move out before that. Remember how they were stealing my internet bandwidth in November because they must have had their cable canceled? Well, They are on a satellite TV and internet system now (Bell) and I’d bet $100 but that that will be cut off soon.

Do any of you have undesirable neighbors? Ones that concern you or ones that make you concerned for their kids?

Hunger pains or too much acid in my stomach?

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I’m still suffering from that hungry feeling that I talked about yesterday. It seems that I’m hungry within only an hour or two of eating a meal.

I don’t know what’s going on … am I really hungry or do I just have acid in my stomach that’s causing hunger pains like feelings? I think it’s hunger, but I do suffer from acid reflux so I suppose it could be acid too .. I have been taking my antacid medicine (Zantac and when it’s bad Pariet), but it doesn’t help the hunger feeling.

Last night when we finally ate dinner I felt a bit better, but that “hunger” feeling didn’t go away until about 11 pm. Actually it never totally went away … it was still there at 11 pm, but it was the most tolerable that it’d been all day.

Today I didn’t feel as hungry as I did yesterday … but I’m getting there now. I was busy all day and I’d planned to make home made Spaghetti and meat sauce (no the spaghetti isn’t home made, the meat sauce sort of is), but I started late. It will be done within half an hour. Hopefully it will help!

I don’t think I’ve been eating foods that burn fat or anything like that … I just think my metabolism has jumped into high gear this week.

For those of you with GERD or acid reflux … do you ever get hunger pains that just won’t go away?

How do you talk about an acne problem with a teenager?

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Just before Christmas my husbands brother and his two sons came to our house (from Chicago) for a visit. They were the first of three rounds of house guests that we had over the holidays.

While they were here visiting I noticed that my nephew suffers from really bad acne … maybe it’s because he’s a hockey player and gets so sweaty. I think he plays just about every day and in fact most of their visits to Canada, especially in the summer, revolve around hockey and hockey camps.

I decided that I’d try to do a little research on acne treatments for him … try to find some of the best acne treatments however I’m unsure how to broach the subject with him.

I mean, I want to help him out. I know the teen years are hard enough without having terrible acne, but it must be bad when you have terrible acne!

Any ideas as to how I can bring up this subject with my teenage nephew – especially if I find something that might really help him out?

Migraine, Migraine – please go away …

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My head is just pounding! I’ve had a massive migraine all weekend. Now that I think about it I had a migraine earlier this week too … I wish they’d just go away!

To make matters worse I’ve had a busy weekend (we got our new washer and dryer and spent all of yesterday and part of today installing it) so I haven’t had a chance to just relax.

Earlier today a friend came over because she wanted me to help her pick out communion invitations. Her daughter is having her first communion in March and my friend is going to have a little dinner and party afterward. I could have done without the visit today considering how I’m feeling, but I know she appreciated my help.

In a little while I’m just going to lie down on the couch and maybe put a heating pad on my neck … that seems to be the only thing that helps my headaches/ migraines go away. No amount of medication seems to help.

Of course I still have to finish making dinner and we have at least three more loads of laundry to do … but hopefully my husband can help with those things.

How do you get rid of a migraine or very bad headache when you get one?

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