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Hiccups

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You know that woman that made the news this year because she’d had the hiccups for a year or so? Well … if that was me I would never have made it that long.

When I get the hiccups it’s painful. It always has been. Each hiccup gets stronger and stronger and hurts more and more. Now that I have Crohns it’s almost unbearable, and unfortunately I get the hiccups quite often. Whenever I eat a food that’s kind of dry in fact.

Chris came home from work a little while ago, and then he went out to the store to get some things that will help when we put the air-conditioners in the windows in a while and while he was out he stopped off at Tim Hortons and got me an Ice-Cap and a croissant.

Well … I started to eat the croissant and the hiccups started. Chris ran to get me a big glass of water, because water does help with my dry food related hiccups. However, as he neared me I had him put his hand on my stomach so that he could feel my guts rolling around with each hiccup. My insides, not just my diaphragm, seem to roll around when I get hiccups. Maybe I’ve got some scar tissue in there from the Crohns that makes this happen.

I feel sorry for that woman that’s had hiccups for so long. I really do. I know with mine, if I had them for more than a few minutes I’d be going nuts with the pain. I’d never make a whole year of hiccups without being sedated or something.

Do your hiccups hurt or are they just irritating?





I’m dragging today

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I’m sorry that I haven’t yet managed to do my Green Thumb Sunday post. I’ve got so much work to do today that it’s not funny!

Plus, the Crohn’s has reared it’s nasty head so I’m trying to do my work with a massively high fever and abdominal pain that I probably should, but won’t, go to the hospital about. I won’t go because I know it’s the Crohn’s and there isn’t much they can do for me, but put me on more meds and maybe hydrate me a little bit.

I’m sick of doctors, hospitals, appointments and medical tests. I’m sick of the pain too and not being able to eat more than a mouthful of food at a time. It can take me upwards of two to three hours to eat dinner sometimes. I take a few bits and then I have to take a break. By the time I’m about a half hour into a meal it’s getting pretty disgusting because the food is cold and uh often has a different texture than when it’s warm which turns me off the food even more, but you can only heat up a meal so many times before you destroy it that way too.

I think I’ll be lying down for about 24 hours once I’m done my work, and the Green Thumb Sunday post. I probably won’t be visiting any sites today, but if I feel better tomorrow I’ll visit some of my GTS and maybe Do follow people.

I hope my American friends are having a nice long weekend.

Home made breads and pastries

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Do you like the smell and taste of homemade bread? My mom used to make home made bread just about every time we went home to visit. She actually taught me how to make bread, pasty and a number of deserts when I was pretty young. It actually turned out that I made pastry dough better than my mom so I kind of became the family pastry chief for a long while.

When I moved away from home and started living on my own I still made my own bread and occasionally made pastry too. You know, pie shells that I could use whenever I wanted and so on?

Unfortunately, since we moved into the house I haven’t been making many homemade deserts, pastries or even homemade breads. Even though I know that homemade breads are generally healthier and have more fibre in them than store bought breads.

I guess I don’t make bread, deserts or pastry very often because we aren’t big desert eaters around here. In fact, I’ve never even been a big bread eater … well unless it’s homemade and fresh out of the oven!

Still, I think I should start making some breads and more home made things again. We have a freezer, I can always freeze them.

Once reason why I’m thinking about home made breads today is because my sister is always talking about how much she loves her bread making machine. So … I’ve started to think about getting one myself. I don’t find making bread from scratch all that hard, but maybe I’d make it more often if we had a bread machine. Certainly there’s some great bread machine recipes out there.

Do you have a bread machine? If you do, how do you like it?

Lingerie parties and Lingerie sales

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Oh oh! I got an email earlier from my niece and she’s having a lingerie party! She’s holding it at the end of May. That could be interesting!

Thinking about lingerie parties just reminded me that for a very short time I once sold lingerie! It was sometime just before I started working as a nurse. I might even have still been in school at the time. I attended a lingerie party that was being held at a friends and some how I ended up getting talked into selling the stuff myself!

It’s kind of like holding Avon or Tupperware parties. You have your samples and you get a friend to hold a party. You go ahead of time and set everything up. What a pain when you have at least two racks of clothing! Then once everyone arrives you do a little presentation and anyone interested checks out the clothing, tries it on and hopefully orders from you.

I did ok at this, but it was time consuming and I felt like I was using my friends. Plus, you may not realize this about me, but I’m actually kind of shy in public. Especially when I’m around a lot of people that I don’t really know. I don’t think I’m as shy now as I used to be … I mean I’m a nurse – I’ve got to speak to strangers and ask them all kinds of personal details about themselves, and I do my darnedest to get a laugh or smile out of people and you can’t be too shy to do that! However, put me in a restaurant by myself to eat a meal or up on stage to give a speech and it’s not pretty!

Anyway, I don’t know if my niece is selling the lingerie or if she’s just holding the party. I wonder if I’ll end up ordering anything interesting?

Air ambulances services – fly your loved one home

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As a nurse I know a lot about the health care field and the various services that are available to people through hospitals, medical clinics and the many services that are offered to those who are sick at home or who become sick while on vacation in another country.

Are you aware that air ambulance services exist? I don’t mean emergency rescue air ambulances – such as ones used to transport a car accident victim to a trauma hospital a few miles away from the source of the accident. No, I mean air ambulances that, for example, can transport a person who’s fallen ill in another Country or in another State, back to their city for medical care close to their families.

Just like keeping emergency phone numbers by the phone, you should bookmark the Airambulance.net website. You never know when you might need their services! In fact, the airambulance.net website is the central hub of information about air ambulance services in the United States.

Earlier I discussed that one might need this kind of service if they were on vacation and fell seriously ill in a place far from home – the other side of the Country or even in another Country. Air Ambulance services are used quite often to transport people out of Countries or from one area of the Country or State to another for all kinds of reasons.

If you lived in a remote area that didn’t have specialized medical services and you needed to go to a hospital in another part of the State or Country for treatments or for an operation that could save your life you would probably end up using an Air Ambulance service to get you there.

I know several nurses and paramedics that have worked for a variety of Air Ambulance services. These medical professionals are often the top in their field – extremely knowledgeable about emergency medical treatments, and highly professional as they deliver these services to those who are sick and seriously ill.

Air Ambulance services specialize in transporting patients who need basic to critical care on board air ambulances with state of the art medical equipment. Each aircraft used for the Air Ambulance service has life support equipment on board. As well as highly trained flight nurses and flight paramedics.

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