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The Gift

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Yesterday when Chris came home from work he was wearing a brand new pair of sunglasses. A really nice pair of motorcycle sunglasses actually.

It turns out that one of the patients he helped care for in the OR Recovery yesterday sells sunglasses and he was so impressed with Chris and how friendly and helpful he was that the man just gave him the sunglasses as a present!

I must admit when I first saw the sunglasses that I thought Chris might have picked them up accidentally … you know like he does with my pens and other things that I can’t leave out without them going missing.

It’s actually great that Chris has an extra pair of sunglasses. He often loses his, so if we tuck these away and just wait a few weeks I’m sure he’ll need them.





Putting Chris to bed

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I just had to coax Chris to go to bed. All week he’s working the early shift so he’s got to get up at 5 a.m.. Yikes! Of course, Ottawa and Anaheim are playing the fourth? Stanley Cup finals game tonight.

He would have stayed up to watch the whole game if he could have, and when Anaheim took the lead in the 2nd period he wanted to. I was keeping my fingers crossed that Ottawa would tie up the game because I knew I’d be able to coax him to get to bed if the game was at least tied.

Ottawa did tie it up so he’s in bed now. That’s a good thing too ’cause Anaheim just took the lead again!

Yes you read that right. I actually left the hockey game on even though Chris has gone to bed. I don’t know why … well other than the fact that I hope Ottawa wins this game too! Hey, it’s my home town, I gotta hope the Sens win!

Just checking in

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I’m sorry that I haven’t posted for a few days. That doesn’t happen very often. I guess, considering how frequently I normally post you could say my little break just balanced things out a bit.

I’ve been so ill. I was very sick for all of last week, but it got worse on Friday and to be honest I think today is the worst that I’ve felt in a long long time. I absolutely hate having Crohn’s disease.

I must have looked as bad as I felt yesterday because Chris actually told me that I looked bad. He never does that. It’s not just because he’s a nice husband. He is, but it’s because I seem to be one of those people that can practically be at deaths door and very few people will be able to tell just by looking at me just how bad I’m feeling.

This has been to my extreme disadvantage when seeing doctors or when I’ve been sick enough that I’ve had to go to the ER. The practice of medicine is both objective and subjective – you have to listen to what the patient is telling you, but you also have to listen to what your own eyes and observations are telling you. When you don’t look as sick as you are, you don’t always get the best care … well, at least up until all the blood work and other test results come in.

Anyway … I just wanted to check in and let you know I’m still here. I’ve got some posting that needs to be done, so you should see a few new articles on this site and some of the others that I run in the next few hours – including my Green Thumb Sunday posting.

Chris fell down and went boom

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I’m usually the one in this household that has weird accidents.

Remember last March when I fell flat on my face and tore open my chin right to the bone and wrenched my jaw, or last July when I tripped on a weird curb and tore a ligament in my knee?

This morning Chris was leaving for work and he was fixing his lunch bag as he got to the end of our walkway. At the same time a female jogger was going by and she was looking at her runners watch to see what her pulse was and how many kilometers she’d run.

Well, as you can imagine, the jogger crashed into Chris as he turned from our walkway onto the sidewalk and he fell to the ground. On the way down his right shin hit the short wrought iron fencing that we have around our garden bed that is beside the walkway. The pointy top of the wrought iron fence, a Fleur de Lis, poked into the middle of his shin.

He apparently had a good dent and tear in his leg as a result! I was still in bed at the time and didn’t see the damage.

The jogger stopped and was quite apologetic for knocking him over. She said to him “You’d better go to the hospital!”, and Chris showed her his employee I.D. that was hanging from his neck and said “Well, I was on my way.”.

Chris came back in the house and cleaned up his wound, and then hobbled off to the hospital which is luckily only a few blocks from our home. Instead of reporting to the O.R. Recovery area where he works he went into the Emergency department and got stitches.

He’s been told to stay off work today and tomorrow. The ER doc that cared for him knows him quite well, and knows Chris is a hard worker who’s always on his feet. So he enforced the two days off rule with a note for the occupational health department.

Since he hit his leg hard and the wound was deep I wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up with a bruised shin bone as well as bruised tissue around the wound. So I’m back to being a nurse today, reminding him to elevate his leg and giving him ice-packs to put on his boo-boo.

I just hope that no one else has fallen into the our wrought iron fence in the past. We aren’t aware of anyone hurting themselves in front of our house. Perhaps we should re-think our choice in garden bed fencing and get something with a smoother top edge.

Satin sheets and I don’t mix

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The other day I was talking about our too small bedrooms and our old double bed that we used to use as our bed when we lived in our apartment. For some reason that made me think of the satin bed sheets that I still have for that bed.

I don’t know if you have, or if you’ve used satin bed sheets before, but they can make the act of getting into bed quite interesting, let alone doing anything else in bed!

The first time I ever used the satin sheets on the bed I think I made the mistake of also wearing a satin nightgown. Now I’m a big klutz so it should stand to reason that me, satin sheets and a satin nightgown were not going to mix well.

I think I probably bought them and put them on the bed to set up a romantic evening for Chris and I. I don’t remember all the details and some of them I won’t get into in this post, but I don’t think I have to tell you that my attempt to get into bed, freshly made with the new light pink satin sheets, in my satin night gown were something that could have come from a classic comedy.

I think I slide across the bed and fell off the other side on my first attempt to get into bed. When it came to the next attempt I believe I was a bit more careful and only slide to the middle of the bed. LOL I’m sure I came out of that experience with a few bruises.

After that I never combined two satins again!

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