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Now I remember why I hate going to the family doctor

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I had a physical at my doctors office a couple of weeks ago. My first in a few years! My main doctor is off on medical leave – I’m not sure what’s wrong with her, so I saw her replacement for the first time when I went in for my physical. Not the ideal time to meet a new doctor in my opinion. LOL

Everything seemed to go well with my physical and I liked the new replacement doctor. My husband also saw her as well and liked her too.

Then, last week I got a call. I guess my Cholesterol is off. So I have to go back to see the doctor soon and find out if I need to start treatment for high cholesterol or perhaps low cholesterol. Mine is probably a little high – it has been occasionally in the past, but I mentioned low cholesterol because that’s my husbands problem. His low or good Cholesterol levels are too low and that can be as bad as having high cholesterol too.

I’m being a bad patient though. Before I left the doctors office she armed with with a few requisitions for tests I need to get done before I see her again ie mammogram, pelvic ultrasound (I have endo) and a thyroid ultrasound and I haven’t even booked those appointments yet! ARgh … I’d better get to work on those.

When you go to see your family doctor do you end up with a bunch of follow up tests that you have to do too? I hate it, but I have a tumor in my thyroid and I’m supposed to have an ultrasound and biopsy every 6 months and like I said, I hadn’t had a real physical with my regular doctor for a few years (probably because she saw me so often she didn’t think I need it, duh) so the other tests are important add ons.





My Crohn’s is finally getting a little better

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I’m feeling awful today. My back is acting up again and so is my stomach or rather my Crohns. It seems when one thing goes wrong for me just about everything else does too.

I do have to admit that my Crohn’s has been a little better lately. I still have some very bad days, but compared to the last few years of mostly all bad days this is better. Maybe it’s finally slowing down.

I’ve been trying a few things like taking a spoonful of drinkable Aloe Vera Gel each day. It tastes awful … kind of like what I think drinking Purell might taste like. Ugh. I’ve also been taking two acidophilus probiotic tablets a day to increase the good bacteria in my intestines. I’ve had several other people with Crohn’s tell me that these two things have helped them quite a bit. So it’s worth a try. I’m also giving irvingia a go as well.

I’ve been sick and stuck at home on medical leave from my work as a nurse in one of Canada’s busiest emergency rooms for 5 years now. It’s about time I started to feel better. I’d like to get back to work if I can, but more importantly I’d just like to feel a lot better.

Time to go shopping!

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Man I need to go on a shopping spree! Now that the really hot weather has finally arrived I’ve discovered that my old summer wear just won’t cut it anymore.

My problem is that I don’t really like shopping all that much. Honest … yes I’m a strange woman. LOL

I desperately need some new clothes though. I think there’s more men’s clothing in our house than there is women’s wear because my husbands mom still buys clothes for him … like almost every time she comes for a visit.

I need to get some light summer pants, blouses, shirts, t-shirts and shorts … pretty much every kind of summer wear.

We were really short on spare cash last year so I made due with my older clothes, but I don’t think I can make due much longer. Maybe I’ll hit a mall sometime this coming weekend and see if I can find somethings that I like.

Do you need to go on a shopping spree too?

It’s going to be a busy summer!

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Last summer my husband and I decided to try to go to as many local events as we could manage. Luckily we live in Toronto and there’s a lot of events and festivals happening throughout the summer. Pretty much every weekend actually!

We had so much fun last year that we decided to do it again this year. I think there’s a jazz festival beginning this week and then later in the month we’ll go to WoofStock (biggest dog festival in North America) and a few Ribfests.

That should fill up the weekends in June! When July and August come around we’ve got Carribanna (with cool stainless steel drums ) street festivals, Taste of the Danforth, more music festivals and so on.

Since we’re not planning a “real” vacation this summer I think this is the best way to get out and do things and have fun in the city. Most of the events are free or fairly inexpensive so it won’t cost us much at all.

What are your plans for the summer? Do you ever go to local events?

Taking advantage of this great weather

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Last week it was cold, rainy and dreary here in Toronto, but this week it’s like summer has already arrived. It’s 27 C (80 F) right now and with humidity it feels more like 30 C (86 F)! That’s much warmer that it usually is in May.

Oh and I can’t really complain about the cool rainy weather last week. We’ve had great weather here in Toronto all year – no snow in February or March and spring like temps since early march – so how can I complain about a few bad days here and there? Besides – my beautiful garden needed the rain.

Since I knew the weather was going to be good this week and it looks good for next week too … last night my husband and I went to a new garden center shortly after Chris came home from work. I’d visited their website and found out that on Wednesdays they don’t charge tax! That means that along with taking advantage of some spring sales on plants we also got 13% off to total price.

We bought over $100 worth of annuals and veggies. Now I just have to plant them.

I was going to go out into the garden earlier today and start working on some of my planters, but it was so hot when I went out I decided to hold off for a while. Perhaps I’ll do a few planters this evening. Hey .. it’s light out until about 9 pm so I’ll have a few hours to work and it should be cooler … or well, at least the sun won’t be shining quite so brightly on my back as I work!

Since the weathers been so nice all Spring I thought we’d have the patio set up before now … but we haven’t hauled our glass and metal patio table and chairs out of the basement and storage area yet so I think we’ll probably do that this weekend. We’ll also get out our solar lights. I like to place them in the garden beds so that we have a little bit of ambient light at night.

Sometime this weekend I want to shop for some cushions for our patio chairs. They’re nice chairs, but a small cushion to lean on might be nice. I find my back hurts a bit if I sit in our patio chairs for too long. I might also look at outdoor rugs to place on the patio under the patio table.

Do you have plans for the long weekend? It’s Victoria Day here in Canada and I believe in the Us it’s Memorial day so I’m sure a lot of people are going up to the cottage, camping or getting together with family. We don’t have any family or travel plans … just the gardening plans. Our weekends have been pretty busy over the last few weeks so it might be nice to just stick around home and get some things done that we’ve been putting off – ie like putting together the patio table and chairs etc.

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