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Neighbors neighbors go away

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My neighbors have gotta go.

I didn’t have a good night so I was having a nap on the couch when I was rudely awoken to the sound of very loud guitar. Even my husband doesn’t play any of his six guitars that loud!

It sounded like they were in my living room.

I think they think that whenever our car isn’t in the driveway we aren’t home so they do whatever the heck they want. You see my husband went out of town for a party today … but there is a car in our driveway … our other neighbors son took advantage of our car being gone so he parked in the single car only driveway we share with our elderly neighbor. Of course his tires are on our lawn! His car is too big for the tiny driveway. At least he doesn’t seem to have hit the house this time!

Ah neighbors on both sides are driving me nuts today.





Everyone’s on a diet but me

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Just about everyone I know seems to be on a diet these days. Actually I think most of these people have tried a number of different diets over the last few years. It’s amazing how many different types of diets and diet philosophies there are out there isn’t it?

Just as amazing is the amount of diet and weight loss related products. There’s ones like Miracle burn that I presume is supposed to help you burn calories or fat faster, and then there are protein supplements and so on.

Having Crohn’s I don’t diet. My weight fluctuates a fair amount. I’ve generally been more on the thin side than the heavy side as I suppose I have a good metabolism and well the Crohn’s symptoms have a tendency to keep the weight off too.

Actually, since I’ve been stuck at home for close to two years and not very active at all I’ve actually managed to gain some weight, a little more than I like due to all that inactivity. I don’t eat much and in fact can’t eat very main foods so it’s gotta be the inactivity.

I’m not worried about it though. Sometimes when my Crohn’s disease really flares up bad I can barely eat or else the food that I do eat goes right through me so there’s been times when I’ve lost more than 40 pounds in two weeks! When I didn’t need to lose that much.

That’s mostly what I meant when I said my weight fluctuates. I’ll maintain for a while and then have a huge drop due to this terrible disease. So I’m not too bothered by having a little extra weight right now because I know that sometime in the near future it will just drop off when my Crohn’s gets even worse. The tiny bit of extra weight that I have on me right now might even help me get through a bad bad flare.

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.

Darn Crohn’s Disease

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I’m still trying to decide if I’ll go to Brantford tomorrow with my husband. After having all those house guests and becoming so ill on Sunday night and into Monday I think I’ll just have to wait and see how I feel once I get up in the morning.

I hate being sick. When you are chronically ill you can’t make plans. You never know if you’ll be feeling well next week let alone the next day. I have the occasional good day but they seem to be further and further apart. It can be very depressing.

So I’m sort of trying to decide whether I’ll go with my husband to his parents. It will be our last chance to spend some time with his brother before he goes back to Chicago on Wednesday so that’s a reason to go. How I’m feeling is a big reason to stay home and rest and hope I feel better later in the week.

I hate being sick. I really hate it.

Couch Potato sleeping all day

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I spent the day on the couch! I never do that.

I was exhausted last night but couldn’t sleep because I’ve been feeling awful. I do think I might be coming down with whatever my husband has/had.

I finally fell asleep while on the couch in the early morning hours and I ended up staying there – sleeping – all day. I got up at 4 pm.

I’m bleary eyed and dazed. I feel so out of it it’s almost unbearable.

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