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Knocked out by the flu bug

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I was just saying in another post on my other blog that I spent the entire day in bed! I didn’t get up until around 9 pm! Of course now I’ll probably end up being up all night. Thank you flu bug you really know how to ruin a day.

Well I guess my body must have needed the rest. I do feel a bit better.

I guess there’s worse things that I could have been doing with the flu rather than lying in bed. I could have spent that time in the bathroom getting to know the bathroom fixtures intimately! LOL

I think I’ll just relax and watch TV for a while now. My husband was channel surfing and he’s just come across a BBC taping of the Rolling Stones in Concert in 1968 on PBS. I love the Stones. I’m happy to watch that for a while.





Now I’m getting the flu too

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Oh oh, I think I might be getting that flu that Chris has now too. I felt like crap all night last night and all day.

Chris got up today to go to work, but he came back upstairs at 8:30 to ask me to call in sick for him. I’d just fallen asleep. Well, I’d fallen into a light sleep full of really strange dreams and then Chris came in the room saying “I’m sick – call my boss for me?”. I didn’t mind doing that for him, but I wish he hadn’t woken me up.

If this is the flu it’s a weird flu. I feel a little bit nauseous, but then I feel that way on and off with my Crohn’s too. Mostly I just feel blah … and weak and dizzy. Oh and my tongue feels like home theater carpet. Maybe I should go get some water?

It seems that the flu is really hitting Toronto hard. We’re apparently in an “unofficial” quarantine. I’m not exactly sure what that means … maybe there’s unofficial travel advisories?

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.

Woman SAT on toilet for two years!

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Holy crap! Literally!

You have to see this news video about a woman who sat on a toilet in a small trailer for two years. She has agoraphobia and was afraid to come out.

I know some bathrooms are really tiny, I’ve got a small one myself, but this woman must not have ever stood up during that two year period as her leg muscles atrophied and her skin grew around the toilet forcing rescue workers, when they were finally called, to have to take her out with the toilet attached to her.

Isn’t that the strangest thing you’ve heard all week … perhaps even all year!

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