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I’ll be in shape for summer

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The other day I wrote a post on my other blog about how I’ve been losing weight lately thanks to having been sick at the end of April. That’s one thing about Crohn’s … when it’s acting up you can lose a lot of weight – often weight you don’t need to lose – quite quickly!

I certainly won’t be needing any weight loss pills to get in bathing suit shape by summer!

I’m actually starting to worry that I might lose too much weight if this doesn’t stop or slow down soon!

What’s worse, I feel awful. I had to stop one of the Crohn’s meds that I just started taking in April, last week because I have to have a biopsy on a thyroid tumor on Thursday. The medication I was taking can thin your blood so I had to stop taking anything that might slow clotting and thin the blood. So I’m in pain!

Hopefully when I can restart my meds at the end of the week they’ll kick in and make this Crohn’s flare go away! That will stop the rapid weight lose and of course all the abdominal pain that I’ve been having. I hope!

God, I hate being sick, I really do!





Side effects while on Depro Provera

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You’d think that once you reach adulthood your skin problems would be over, wouldn’t you? I never had really bad skin as a teenager, but it seems that I’m starting to have a few problems now.

Maybe my skin problems are caused by the Depro Provera that I’ve been on for a year now. My face is breaking out a little bit and so are my shoulders. Nothing bad, but considering that I’m used to not having any kind of skin problem it’s bothersome.

Oddly enough I’ve started paying more attention to acne skin treatment ads. I know that I don’t need any heavy duty acne treatments, but maybe I’ll by some Clearasil or something the next time I’m out shopping.

Anyone else experience skin problems while on Depro Provera? I think it’s also causing other problems too … I’m sweating more when I walk or when I’m active than I ever used to do. I think I might go off it soon!

A beautiful day turns scary with sudden wind storm!

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I’m still recovering from a scary experience that I had at about 5:30 this evening here in Toronto.

It was supposed to be a beautiful day and for the most part it was, at least up until 4:30 or so when the skies started darkening. The weather forecast had said that we were expecting a thunderstorm this evening, so naturally I just thought the storm was approaching. Little did I know that by 5:15 pm or so I’d be outside (pruning roses in backyard) in what felt like a mini-tornado!

As I was outside puttering in the garden I noticed that it was getting darker and darker. I swear that if I didn’t know what time it was I might have thought the sun was about to set. So I was just about to start gathering the items I’d been using in the garden when strong winds came out of nowhere … no warning at all.

Suddenly I was in the worst wind storm I’ve ever experienced. Small branches were flying off my neighbors maple tree and I was worried that the broken down roof that they had over their garage overhang was about to blow into my yard. As it turned out a few pieces of the wood holding the roof down did land in my yard.

Our other neighbor rushed outside just as part of his back fence came loose and went flying towards him and his house. Then I noticed that the neighbor behind us was about to loose a large piece of their evestroughing from the front of their house!

That was enough for me and my new MBT shoes! I rushed into our enclosed back porch with my gardening tools. I stayed there for a bit to keep an eye on my neighbor who was covering up his BBQ and kids bikes just in case our other neighbors garage overhang roof did fly off and headed towards him. At least a little warning might have helped!

Chris was out at Home Depot while this was going on. When he came home just after 5:30 I learned that a TREE fell down right in front of the car as he was driving! It brought down power lines too! He carefully drove to the other side of the road and made it past the fallen tree and dangerous downed power lines.

Needless to say once he came home he was a little shaken up. I was glad that he hadn’t been hurt and told him about my backyard adventures as well.

Oddly enough, watching the news and the Weather Network at 6 pm they didn’t mention any damage from the powerful winds although they said there were gusts up to 85 kilometers an hour … I’m sure it was stronger in our area during the 10 to 15 minute windstorm. The news didn’t even mention downed trees … maybe this severe windstorm was just in our immediate area?

Pretty scary though .. I mean I literally saw two of my neighbors houses being damaged and another neighbors fence fly off! Not to mention Chris’ experience with a tree falling down right in front of him as he was driving … oh and after that the car lifted up off the ground while he was driving across the bridge at Millwood.

It’s scary how fast weather can change isn’t it? One minute it’s our warmest Spring day so far – 26 C (79 F) but felt like 30 C (86 F) with humidity and the next it’s the worst windstorm that I’ve experienced! Shortly after the winds the rain started falling. We had a little thunder, but nothing compared to that wind storm that I won’t soon forget!

I hope the weather in your area is better than ours was about two hours ago!

Don’t you just love Spring?

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Don’t you just love Spring? The grass is starting to turn green, trees and bushes are starting to get new leaves and even some flowers are blooming! What a great time of year!

We had some rain and cooler weather earlier in the week, but right now it’s 19 C (66 F) outside and tomorrow it’s supposed to reach 26 C (79 F) or perhaps even higher. Now that’s spring weather that I can get in to!

Last Saturday was nice too … before all the rain started on Sunday and onward. We did some gardening and yard work that day and Chris put our glass and metal patio table together.

Our neighbors kids seem to love our yard and our patio table. They ended up coming over to play with our dog, sit at the high patio chairs and even helped me with some of the garden bed tidying that I was doing. I have a feeling that every time I go out in the yard when they are home they are going to end up in our backyard. The older girl hung out with us for hours last Saturday and even wanted to come inside with us when we were done working outside. I think I’ve been “adopted”! LOL

Tomorrow, once the yard work is done we’ll probably pull out our Muskoka chairs and put them on the lawn. I’ve got to find the outdoor cushions that we use on them … they certainly make the chairs comfy!

We also have a lot (A LOT) of solar lights that we use in the front and back garden beds. We pull them out of the ground each fall so that they don’t get damaged by the cold, snow and ice and store them in our enclosed back porch. I think it’s about time we haul them out and set them up in the garden again. They look so pretty at night when they light up the garden beds and some of the plants.

What are your plans for the weekend? Are you expecting nice Spring weather too?

I think I deserve a holiday

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Sorry I haven’t written for a while. I’ve just been feeling awful lately. I actually had a reaction to a new medication I was trying, Sulfasalazine, two weeks ago, and it made me feel so bad that up until a few days ago I was basically just laying around trying to get through each day. It’s awful when you medications that you’re taking to feel better make you feel 10 times worse!

I think that after all I’ve been through this year alone it might be time to try to take a holiday … well if my body will co-operate and let me feel good enough to go away for a few days. I’d love to go to Vegas for the weekend, maybe our long weekend in May … hmmm, that sounds good! One of our friends recently went to Vegas and stayed at the Stratosphere hotel. She really enjoyed the place so maybe I’ll see if they have any deals coming up.

Don’t get me wrong … I’m glad spring is here, but after being so sick for the last two weeks I could use a break from home. I’m sick of looking at my house. I need to get out.

Do you need a vacation or short get away too?

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