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Crohn’s isn’t just a terrible disease – it’s embarrassing!

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My Crohn’s disease seems to be getting worse. I think I’ll have to go and see my gastrointernologist again soon. My medications just aren’t working.

We had guests over last weekend and we went out several times – we went to the very crowded and disappointing Taste of the Danforth, the beach, a private beach club, our for dinner and so on. All in all we had nine people staying in our home over three days.

It was too much for me. I already wasn’t feeling well before our guests arrived and now I’m spending the remainder of the week recovering from their visit. I think they made my crohn’s worse.

This is a terrible disease. I won’t get into all the symptoms, but when you have crohn’s your bowels – large or small intestines – are inflamed and can end up having scar tissue build up narrowing the intestines, abscesses can develop and you can’t digest foods very well. It causes a lot of pain and sometimes it can even cause a loss of control because, well there’s no other way to say this, but if you have crohn’s you probably have the runs a lot.

I’ve been lucky in that I haven’t actually had many accidents but I’d be lying if I said I’d never had one. Geez, even people with the flu have sometimes had an accident.

Anyway, when I go out I prefer to go to places I’ve been before. Places that I know exactly where each washroom is located in case I have to make a mad dash for the rest room. I sometimes even think that I should purchase some disposable underwear for those really bad days when I have to go out, but my system is acting up so much I can’t be sure that I won’t have one of those rare accidents.

What an awful disease eh? The pain, lack of digestion, fevers and abscesses are bad enough, but then you add the embarrassment of possibly having an accident and it makes it that much worse. I hate this disease.





Visit The Debt Help website and find a solution to your debt problems

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I think almost everyone runs into money trouble at some point in their life. I’d like to say that most people manage to get themselves out of debt on their own, but I know far too many people who’ve had some major debt issues to believe that.

If you’ve gotten yourself in over your head with expenses or you’ve been over spending and now you have bills to deal with that you know you can’t pay why don’t you visit the debthelp.com website.

The Debt Help web was created in order to help people that have gotten themselves into debt. When you visit the site you’ll see that there are a number of debt related articles aimed at helping your understand credit, credit ratings, loans, student loans, debt, debt solutions and services that will assist you in debt consolidation. In fact, on the main page there’s a section in which you can answer a few simple questions about your finances and a button below that marked “find a solution” that you can click and it will take you to another page with questions related to the type of answers you gave on the main page. Follow the steps and you may soon find that you have a debt consolidation option that you hadn’t though of before, and you may find that things aren’t as bad as you thought. At the very least you should see a way out of your current situation.

Getting out of debt and staying out of debt is hard work. If you are a spender and perhaps walking that fine line between being in debt and living from pay check to paycheck without any savings you really should take a look at the articles on the site.

As I said you’ll find some very well written and easy to understand articles regarding credit counseling, debt management, bankruptcy, student loans, tax debt and many other finance related articles. You’ll even find debt calculators that will help you figure out how to pay off your debts, what kind of mortgage you can afford and how much interest you’re paying on your various loans.

I really do think the wealth of articles is one of the strong points of the Debthelp.com website. I’ve visited the site in the past and each time I visit the site I’ve been impressed over just how much information is available on the website. Visit the site yourself, I’m sure you’ll find some very helpful information.

Expensive break down

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My husband called his parents house earlier this evening to see if his brother ever got there. His brother had been driving from Chicago through the night Wednesday and into early Thursday morning.

He made it, but sometime during the day his car broke down! Actually I’m not sure if it happened just before he reached my husbands home town or if it happened long after he arrived. Either way his car broke down and it apparently cost about $900 to get fixed!

He’s going to need a cash advance! A big one!

What a drag eh? I mean he’s lucky it didn’t happen in the middle of nowhere while he was driving from Chicago, but still that’s an expense that I’m certain he wasn’t counting on. What a way to spoil a holiday.

Veering off topic

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I’ve been getting quite a few offers to write articles for people. I’m pleased about that, but some of the offers just don’t match my sites. I just finished writing a real estate related post on my gardening (home and garden but more garden) blog and it ticked me off.

I should have refused the offer but I hemmed and hawed about it for several days and by the time I decided to do something about it the offer was about five days old so I felt guilty and ended up accepting it. I totally regret taking it though since it really doesn’t suit that blog at all.

I’m trying to really focus some of my blogs so, even though I know some of them are popular with advertisers, I’m going to have to try to fine tune what I write about on some of them from now on.

Do you find yourself veering off topic on some of your blogs occasionally? If you’ve done this you know exactly what I mean and you know it’s kind of difficult to get back on track again, but if you want to keep the readers that you’ve been trying to build up you have to stick to your guns and stay on topic.

More people should use portable water filters

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Have you heard that several cities across the US have banned water bottles? By this I mean the use of store bought bottles full of water.

I’ve always thought that it was such a waste of money to buy bottled water. Sure, if you’re really thirsty and don’t have access to running water they’re handy, but since the water used in most bottles of water is just plain local tap water why pay extra for it?

I’ve always carried my own bottled water from home. We actually double filter our tap water. I don’t really think there’s anything wrong with Toronto tap water. I believe it’s tested regularly and that it poses no danger. Still we filter it on the tap and that filtered water goes into a Brita water filter that we put in the fridge. The water then tastes just like fresh spring water!

For those of you who don’t filter your tap water and or can’t buy bottled water anymore you might be interested in portable water filters. It’s a bottle that has a filter right inside it to help purify your water. I love this idea! I wish more people would use them instead of being wasteful and purchasing so many throw away plastic bottles.

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