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I’m getting sick of these four walls

January 13, 2010 by Tricia

I think I’m starting to go a little stir crazy! I’ve mostly been stuck inside the house for the last couple of weeks and I’m tired of the view! LOL

As my regular readers know I have Crohn’s disease and I’ve been on medical leave from my job as an ER nurse for five years now. Unfortunately I can add a bad back into my list of woes now too. I found out about a year ago that I have a herniated disc in my lower back so the last year I’ve had a lot of back pain and a numb left thigh.

My back got really bad on Christmas evening. I’d spent the previous two or three days cleaning the house from top to bottom in order to prepare for three rounds of house guests during the holiday season and then standing cooking all day on Christmas day must have just been the last straw for my back.

Sitting during Christmas dinner was excruciating. You see when I stand too long it seems to make my tailbone go out and sitting or moving around becomes extremely painful. To top everything off, the next day I got new symptoms – my numb left thigh got even number and then my left thigh started burning – as if I was standing with my leg pressed against a radiator or something extremely hot.

So now if I stand for as little as 15 minutes my thigh starts burning! It’s an awful feeling! Luckily if I go and lie down on my side with my legs bent (sort of like a fetal position) the burning subsides.

Now … two weeks or more later I haven’t done a lot of sitting. I’m stuck inside the house because can’t stand or walk for long without everything getting worse … but, thanks to lying down a lot my back, tailbone and leg seem to be quite a bit better.

I did go out on Sunday … we bought a new front loading high efficiency washer and dryer set at a local furniture store. While we were there we looked at the new HDTV sets and some contemporary sofas. I know our TV is going to die sometime this year so we thought it would be a good idea to figure out which models we like … as for the sofas … well … if we ever do get around to renovating the basement I think I’ll bring our living room couch, sofa and chair set downstairs and get a new sofa for the living room.

We have NO money … but hey .. I can dream … and that little outing to the store- while it was hard on my back – was nice. It alleviated some of the boredom I’d been feeling by having to be stuck at home lying down all the time because of my bad back.

Have you ever been stuck at home for a few weeks (or months) due to illness or something like a bad back? I know for some people being stuck at home in bed for even a day or so can drive them nuts – so imagine weeks!





Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Crohns Disease, Health Fitness + Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Home Renovation, Interior Design, Items to Try, Shopping, Toronto Tagged With: bad back, burning sensation, dryer, herniated disc, lying down, numb thigh, renovate basement, Shopping, sofa, standing, stir crazy, stuck on couch, tailbone, washing machine

Do you stick to a budget?

January 4, 2010 by Tricia

It’s bad enough that the holiday season usually incurs higher expenses for most households what with buying gifts for kids, family and friends, but when your husband is on rolling lay-offs or someone’s out of work it gets tough to keep track of expenses and stick to a budget.

I’ve been off work for five years now thanks to a nasty Crohn’s disease flare that just won’t calm down. I used to get medical leave pay and benefits, but that ran out a few years ago, so now I’m dependent upon what income I can make on the internet.

My husband on the other hand works in the same hospital where I’m employed (yes I still have a job, I just haven’t been there for years!), but due to the hospital going over budget they’ve decided that his department must go through five or six weeks of shut down. He just completed the first two weeks of temporary lay off and is on his first day back to work. The next scheduled lay off is in March and the last in July. Once he’s accumulated enough time off work he’ll get some unemployment insurance money, but it won’t come near to what he would have made had he been working his regular hours.

So … we’re on a budget! A tight one.

My husband will get a paycheck this week but I believe that it will be for zero dollars as he didn’t work the last two weeks thanks to the lay off, so the next real paycheck we can count on from him is January 20th! That’s a long wait!

So over the weekend I spent some time working on a budget for the next month. I added up what money we each have in the bank, cash on hand, and money that we expect to come in between now and the end of the month. I then totaled all of our upcoming bills, like our biweekly mortgage payments, the monthly oil bill, house and life insurance payments, cable and telephone and so on.

The hard part about creating a budget is working out expenses that can be variable, like the grocery bill. We have a lot of food in the house right now so I think we can get by just buying the basics like milk, bread and some fresh veggies and fruit over the next two weeks, but after that our weekly grocery expenses will probably go up.

As it turns out, if we stick to the budget that I created, we should have money to spare at the end of the month. A nice chunk too – more than I thought we’d have!

One great thing about adding up your weekly or monthly expenses is that you can see where you waste money as well. Just before we bought our house in 2001 I kept track of every cent we spent – you know, stopping off at the corner store on your way home, buying a coffee each morning, buying lunch during the work week etc. At that time it turned out that we wasted a lot of money by not bringing lunch to work or buying a coffee in the morning and a soft drink or juice in the afternoon – not to mention buying the occasional chocolate bar, snack or magazine at the corner store on the way home from work. We changed our ways and stop spending money on little extras that we could bring from home or make at home and it saved us literally hundreds of dollars a month.

Do you make a monthly budget and try to stick to it? Are you successful at sticking to your budget or do you blow it most of the time?

Filed Under: Crohns Disease, Family, Finance, Health Fitness + Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Life with Chris Tagged With: bills, budget, careful, finances, grocery, lay off, limited income, monthly expenses, planning, rolling lay offs, spending

Recovering from the holidays

December 27, 2009 by Tricia

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m in holiday recovery mode right now!

I spent most of last week cleaning the house, shopping, cooking and having two rounds of family visits! I’ve spent the weekend resting. Tomorrow I’ll begin to prepare for the last round of house guests and my nieces wedding on the 30th.

Don’t even ask me what we’re doing for New Years. So far we don’t have any plans, but after almost two weeks straight of holiday prep and festivities I think we’ll be having a quiet evening at home. LOL

With all the cleaning, cooking and standing I did last week I managed to make my back worse. I have a slipped disc and it’s caused me a lot of pain over the last year. I also have a numb left leg to go with it. Yesterday and Christmas day my back was so bad the pain was going into the tail bone, so when I finally got a chance to sit down and enjoy Christmas dinner and spend some time with guests (sister and her boyfriend on Christmas day) I was in too much pain to sit for long. Ow!

Last night my leg had strange sensations that I’d never felt before. I was standing in the kitchen heating up leftovers from Christmas dinner and my lower left thigh suddenly felt like it had a heating pad set on high on it! My leg even felt warmer to the touch in that area.

I actually got a little bit scared because it was so weird. I was just hoping that the very disturbing hot sensation would go away and that other worse symptoms (like leg weakness etc) wouldn’t start up.

I rested my back last night and used the heating pad on it and the hot sensation went away. In fact my back feels a lot better today … but oddly enough my right shoulder hurts a lot. My stomach (I have Crohn’s) is also bad today … maybe I’m just fighting something and that’s why my bad back and shoulder are acting up?

Did you survive the holiday season? I hope that you did! A belated Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!

Filed Under: Canada, Chronic Pain, Crohns Disease, Family, Health Fitness + Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Toronto Tagged With: aching back, achy, bug, Christmas, Christmas dinner, clean house, cleaning house, cooking, Crohns, fighting a bug, holidays, house guests, preparing, sore, sore shoulder, tired

I wish we had a dishwasher

December 13, 2009 by Tricia

OMG the dishes are piling up. I haven’t been feeling well all weekend (ok since Thursday really) and as a result the kitchen is a mess and dirty dishes are covering one side of the counter and filling up one of our double sinks.

The rest of the house isn’t too bad. My husband and I did a really big clean up on Monday, but for me, it’s been a downhill ride since then. LOL

One thing I hate is a messy kitchen and the sight of dirty dishes. I wish we had a dishwasher. Of course our kitchen is really tiny … I have no idea where we’d put one, but still, it would be nice to have one. I think we’d only have to run it once a week or so, but in the meantime the dirty dishes could be hidden away. Hey … isn’t that what dish washers are for?

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Crohns Disease, Health Fitness + Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try Tagged With: dirty dishes, dish washer, downhill, hide dishes, house cleaning, messy kitchen, sick, wash dishes

Working out almost daily and it’s paying off

December 13, 2009 by Tricia

Well, I posted about trying to lose a few pounds last week and so far so good.

I started working out almost daily (sore muscles slowed me down, and Crohn’s slowed me down this weekend) and I think it’s starting to help.

Along with taking my dog on long brisk walks, I stated using my Wii again. I’ve been using Gold’s Cardio Workout and Wii Fit Plus. The shape boxing in the Cardio work out really gets me moving and I can feel my heart rate going up. Looks like I won’t even have to think about trying a weight loss supplement. Actually I probably wouldn’t anyway as I don’t think that would go well with my delicate digestive system (thanks to the Crohn’s disease) anyway.

Anyone else trying to lose a few pounds before Christmas or in my case my niece’s wedding at the end of the month? How’s it going?

Filed Under: Crohns Disease, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Walking Tagged With: Crohns, daily, delicate system, dog, Golds cardio workout, good, lose weight, walking briskly, wii, Wii fit plus, work out, working

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