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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.

I’m awake

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I’ve had an awful week. My sleep time is all turned around – going to bed really late, getting up late. It’s been terrible. Of course when I don’t sleep at a normal time the sleep I do get isn’t all that good so I’ve been overtired too.

Well last night I fell asleep on the couch at about 11:30. I woke up at 5:30 am, but I feel like I’ve had a good sleep despite the fact that it was on the couch.

I’m up!

Bad days

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Can you believe I’m still feeling ill and getting worse. I think my Crohn’s is in full flare. I hate this. The week before last I spent the majority of the week, day and night, lying on the couch. That’s how sick I was.

Then last Saturday evening I suddenly felt a lot better – for about 36 hours. Of course I chose that time to get a lot of gardening work done and probably over did it so I slowly went downhill again over the week and by Friday I was back to being a couch potato again.

Yesterday was the worst. I have lots of meds that I take and some of them are pretty heavy duty pain meds. One of the pain meds I take twice a day as it’s a long acting pain medication. Two of the others are faster acting and I can take them when I’m having bad pain that needs immediate control. Well .. I almost never take the short acting pain medication during the day. The worst of my pain is in the evening and through the night.

Yesterday however my pain was so bad that I ended up having two percocets through the day on top of my long acting pain meds. I never do that!

Today is a bit better. Maybe I got on top of the pain again. I don’t know. All I know is that I can’t take much more of this constant yoyo’ing back and forth between tolerable pain and unbearable pain.

One step forward, two steps back?

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I was hoping that I’d have been more productive today. I got up early, after not much sleep, because I had an early doctors appointment. When I got home I was feeling my lack of sleep but I pushed on and got a few things done – the best of which being getting all of our bills paid.

I hate paying bills. It’s not because we don’t have the money to pay the bills … it’s just that I don’t like paying them. Probably because I think we’re being charged way too much for many of the things that I just paid for this morning – cable, electricity … both have doubled since the first year we were in our house!

A while after that a wave of tiredness hit me that I couldn’t ignore. It didn’t help that I wasn’t feeling all that well again. I had an awful week last week, but surprisingly I suddenly started feeling better around 5 pm on Saturday and managed to get a lot of gardening work done over the weekend. I must have over did it though because I’m back to feeling crummy. Not as bad as last week though! Small blessing I guess.

If this keeps up I’m not sure how I’ll ever get anything done. I must start feeling better – and getting better sleep.

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