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I think he threw it out!

September 5, 2007 by Tricia

I seem to write about my food cravings on this blog. I don’t know why, but I do.

The latest craving is popcorn. Something I can’t eat due to my Crohns. Just trust me, it makes it worse. Way worse.

Anyway, last night I was determined to have some popcorn so I went looking for my popcorn machine. Wouldn’t you know it I couldn’t find it.

Obviously we don’t use it very often with me not tolerating popcorn or even corn very well, but every once in a while, like once a year, I allow myself to have a tiny taste.

I have the sneaking suspicion that my husband either gave the popcorn machine away or threw it out just to keep me from eating this dangerous delicacy.

I’ll have a look around in our basement just in case we stored it down there due to lack of space in the kitchen, but I don’t think I’ll find it. It’s gone. So naturally without my craving satisfied I’m really jonesing for a handful of popcorn.

Recovering from a very busy weekend!

September 5, 2007 by Tricia

Well we had our family reunion this past weekend. After five days of getting together with my family I’m totally exhausted. It seems like we were always on the go.

The major highlights of the weekend were attending a baseball game – our team the Blue Jays won of course, seeing some of the cast of Heroes at the game, going on a boat cruise and gazing at the lovely city skyline at sunset from the boats deck, a big family barbecue, going to the beach on the hottest day of the weekend, dining in restaurants twice with family members and going to see my nephews photos at an art gallery.

Busy, busy, busy!

To top it all off on Sunday and Monday I really wasn’t feeling well at all. You know I have Crohns … well I thought I might need to buy some incontinence products! Yeah that’s how bad I was feeling and my stomach was just gurgling. It was awful, but I made it through.

Still, even thought I didn’t feel all that well over the weekend I enjoyed myself. I don’t get to see one of my brothers or his family very often since they live on the other side of our large country so I always try to make the best of his visits.

Did you have a nice holiday weekend? Oh … perhaps you didn’t have a long weekend. It was Labor day here on Monday and that’s a statutory holiday so all of North America had a long weekend.

Strange names for supplements

August 24, 2007 by Tricia

Speaking of diet products, nutritional products and even protein drinks …

After my last post I went looking to see just how many different products I could find and the most unusually name for a supplement that I found was “muscle milk”. Isn’t that a strange name for a product? I guess it makes sense though as it’s a protein drink.

I don’t think I’ve taken any supplements with strange names. Ok, well I did try Cat’s Claw in the past. I guess that’s an odd name, especially when you know that it’s a natural product that helps digestive disorders. Hmmm claws huh?

What’s the strangest named supplement or medicine that you’ve tried?

Everyone’s on a diet but me

August 24, 2007 by Tricia

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!

August 17, 2007 by Tricia

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.