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What moisturizer can I use on myself that won’t be toxic for my dog?

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Yesterday I wrote a post about how my skin scars really easily … all I need to do is have a tiny little scratch and it will scar when it heals. Bad eh?

Anyway, I did some research on different products I could try to lessen the scars that I get and I found out that stretch marks cream might help. Also, my scarring might happen more often because my skin is kind of dry, so if I moisturize more often I might not scar up so much!

The only problem I have with using moisturizer is that I have a Labrador Retriever and she loves to lick! She licks our feet, our hands, our neck and face, even our clothes. If I do put moisturizer on during the day she instantly comes up to me and tries to lick it off. I’ve actually tried contacting the manufacturers of some of my favorite moisturizers to find out if it’s safe for pets (ie if they lick you when you have just put moisturizer on) and they told me to consult with our veterinarian … like a veterinarian will know more about their product than they do?

Do any of you know of any moisturizers that are safe to use around pets that like to try to lick it off … I mean human skin moisturizers of course.





Can’t wait for dinner

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I absolutely cannot wait to eat dinner tonight. I’m so hungry! I’ve been hungry for hours! Unfortunately I had to wait for my husband to come home before I could eat (ok I did eat a granola bar but it didn’t help).

Dinner should be ready soon though. Yum!

Last week I made three pans of meat loaf. I know, not everyone likes meatloaf … even I didn’t until recently, but mine is good! I put onion, garlic, and green pepper in mine so it’s quite tasty. We ate the first meat loaf in two or three days and the other two I sliced into individual servings and froze, so now all I have to do is pull out enough for a dinner for two and tada .. half of our dinner is already made and just needs to be thawed and heated.

I was just saying on my other blog that I’ve been more hungry than usual for several days! I certainly won’t need a diet aid if my body keeps doing this. My metabolism must be going off at a higher rate lately, otherwise I don’t know why I’m so hungry. I’ve been a little more active than normal but surely not enough to make me feel this hungry all the time.

George Costanza – a spokesperson?

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Ha, I just heard that Jason Alexander is going to be the new spokesperson for jenny craig. Good for him!

I tend to stay up late at night – due to my Crohn’s pain for the most part, and as you probably know there isn’t much on TV late at night … so I often end up watching old reruns of Seinfeld and other old sitcoms. So I see a lot of the old “George”. Plus I did manage to catch one of the Curb Your Enthusiasm Seinfeld reunion shows and yes … Good ol’ George has gained some weight.

It’ll be nice to see if in a year or so if he’s all slimmed down. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him slim, Have you?

I need to take better care of my skin!

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Wow, is my skin ever delicate! For some reason I was looking at my arm earlier today, don’t ask me why, and I noticed that I have all these little tiny scars on my arm. I looked at my other arm and the top of my hands and the same thing is going on.

I think some of the scars go back to when we used to have a very very large iguana. His nails would scratch my skin when I’d hold him – not enough to make me bleed … just a scratch or scuff .. but then I’d end up with a very light scar.

Now that we have a dog she scratches me up pretty good too. If I ask her to shake hands she paws me quickly several times and scratches me with her rough nails!

So .. now I have tiny, white criss crossed scars all over my hands and arms! The only times I’ve really ever notices it before was in the summer when my skin gets a light tan. Hmmm I wonder what I could do to fix it? I wonder if acne scar cream would work or if I’d have to get something stronger?

Does your skin scar from just a tiny scratch like mine does? When I say scratch I mean just a little skin scuffing – no cut, no bleeding, just a faint mark …

I’m getting sick of these four walls

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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!

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