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I feel like crap, absolute crap

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I’m in so much pain tonight. Well … really for the last week or so. Remember last week I gushed about eating fresh corn on the cob and how rare it was for me to eat it because it usually caused my Crohn’s to flare up? Yeah, well … I bought six cobs so that means we ate corn three times last week. That was at least two times too many for me.

I knew the corn would do me in, but sometimes you just gotta do it. I’ve certainly been paying for eating it the last few days.

Today I’ve had a lot of fevers. Not great when it’s super hot outside, but you know I had such a high fever when I took the dog outside for a pee at about 4 pm that the slight breeze that was hitting me made me shiver.

I shouldn’t have been shivering outside today, it was damn hot! When I was shivering outside with a fever it was 29 Celsius (84 F) and with the humidity it supposedly felt like 38 Celsius (100.4 F). Ridiculous eh?

I feel bad since it’s Chris’ birthday today. I’m sitting here like a lump when we should be celebrating.

Well, hopefully I feel better tomorrow. Chris won tickets two weeks ago for subscribing to the Danforth Music Hall’s newsletter. They give away free tickets each month to their newsletter subscribers – well to one lucky subscriber each month, I mean. So tomorrow night we’re going to see Amos Lee. He’s supposed to be a great musician however I’m not certain that I’ve ever heard any of his songs. It’s a good venue though and it will be a great thing to go out and do for Chris’ birthday.

So wish me luck that I feel better tomorrow!





Oh my aching back!

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My back is aching. As I said in my last post Chris and I had a very busy day – hiking, visiting with a neighbor and then gardening.

Gardening has been taking a huge toll on my back lately. Sometimes I can garden for quite a while without my back bothering me, but other times it starts hurting almost right away.

My lower back goes into spasms after I’ve been leaning forward for a while. Heck, even when I sweep the floor (which I did early this morning – it’s amazing how much hair that dog is shedding) my back often goes into spasms and sometimes aches for hours afterwords.

I have a weird back. I was born with two of my lower vertebrae fused on one side. So one side is normal and the other side of my lower back isn’t. My back never bothered me much in the past, but I guess it’s starting to catch up with me now. At least the pain goes away after a few hours if I lie down and let the muscles in my lower back relax for a while. Well most of the time it does.

I think I’ll find our heating pad and put some heat on my back.

Exhausting day

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Well I finally got around to going the family doctor early today for a physical. I’ve been so sick the last two years that she didn’t really insist on giving me an annual physical until now. I mean, at one point I was seeing my doctor about every two weeks! Considering that I was also seeing a number of other specialists regularly at the time it seemed like I was in a doctors office at least twice a week for a while there.

Now normally when I see my family doc I time the appointment for one of the days when my husband doesn’t work until noon so that he can drive me to the docs. I do drive but I don’t drive often anymore because I’m just on too many meds and I don’t feel safe driving with all those drugs on board. Well this week he’s covering someone else’s shift while they are on holidays so I couldn’t work out a ride. So I ended up taking the Subway for the first time in about two years!

The subway is just as bad or perhaps interesting as ever. It was crowded, smelly and stuffy and it took forever to get to the doctors office! I’m used to getting there in 15 minutes but since I decided to take the subway today it took over an hour to get there. Argh. Plus they were doing construction or renovations in one of the buildings near my doctors, maybe putting in CAT6 cables from the looks of it, and I had to go around the area just to get to my docs.

Since I was out so long today the dog was full of energy so when Chris got home from work we decided to take her for a walk together and man that was a workout. She pulls on the leash so hard. She even tired herself out … she’s snoozing on the floor at my feet now.

I’m wiped out now too … maybe I’ll take a nap as well.

Have to work up the energy to go shopping

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If I can ever get moving today I’ve got to go out to the drug store. I saw my pain doctor yesterday and she gave me my regular prescription of pain meds. Time to find out what it really costs without a health care benefits package! Argh … I’m sure it will be at least $200 if not more.

At least if it starts to get too expensive for me I have a couple months worth of most of my meds stocked up. I don’t take as many pills as I’m prescribed each day so I built up a supply. Gosh if I did take what I was fully prescribed I’d probably be a zombie!

If I’m not up to going out to the store I’ll just send Chris. He’s pretty good about doing things like that for me. He even does most of the grocery shopping these days. I wonder if I can get him to buy wrinkle cream for me? Ok well .. anti-wrinkle cream is what it should be called. Gotta use it to prevent aging right? Thankfully I’m from a family that ages well. Even my parents when they were in their early 80’s only looked like they were in their 60’s or early 70’s and my brothers and sister all look at least 10 years younger than they really are.

Do you come from a family that looks young for their age or are you going to have to fight aging tooth and nail the whole way?

Crohn’s disease sucks

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I’m having one of those weeks where I just don’t feel well pretty much all the time.

Each day seems worse than the last. God, I hate having Crohn’s disease. Most of the time I make the best of it and tolerate this odd painful way of life that I have to live … but weeks or days like this kind of get me down.

The pain in my abdomen and the high pitched sounds that it’s making are tell tale signs that I’ve got another bowel obstruction. So … I’m just trying to drink a lot of liquids today in the hope that it will clear on it’s own. I don’t want to go to the hospital. I really don’t.

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