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I’ve been a nurse for 15 years?

June 27, 2007 by Tricia

I was just thinking, it was around this time 15 years ago that I finally finished my nursing course. Wow, I’ve been a nurse for 15 years. It doesn’t seem that long!

I guess I should have happy memories of that time, but it was a little stressful. You see, just as I finished my course and began my new nursing career my husband went back to school. So here I was, a young nurse just building a career with student loans to pay off and I’d also become the breadwinner for the household since my husband went back to school.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure when I was going to school and my husband was the only one working it was hard on him too … but he wasn’t in a new career. At least he had that going for him.

When Chris finished his course I was still paying off my student loans. We then had to start paying off his too. His were higher than mine because he’d gone to a private school for an IT course. In fact I’d say his student loans were about 10 times mine! I’d had a couple of scholarships too so that helped keep mine reasonable, but still, our loans together were a heck of a lot of money.

We struggled through the payments. I never realized that we could have applied for a school loan consolidation. If we had we more than likely would have ended up reducing our total monthly payment and saving money because there’d be less interest on our total as we payed what we owed each month.

Well I guess you could say we learned our lesson the hard way. Now that I know you can consolidate student loans I”ll certainly be telling others that appear to be struggling to pay off their loans as they start out in their new careers.

Marinated trout for dinner

June 25, 2007 by Tricia

Tonight we are having fish for dinner. I actually started marinating it yesterday because it was supposed to have been last nights dinner but we got too busy in the garden and by the time we thought of eating it was almost 10 pm! We had pizza instead!

Yeah, great dinner when I had a nice one all prepared eh?

The good news is that other than cooking tonights dinner I don’t have to do a thing.

We are having rainbow trout that’s been marinating for more than 24 hours in red wine and seasoning, steamed asparagus, and a hearty tossed garden salad.

Yum!

Well yum as long as the wine didn’t over flavor the fish, and yum as long as Chris doesn’t over cook it. The last time we had a fish BBQ Chris overcooked it a bit so while still tasty it was a bit dry.

Lets hope tonights dinner is fantastic.

The Ortho Evra Patch

June 25, 2007 by Tricia

I don’t know if you or someone you care about it using the ortho evra patch, but there’s been a number of women who’ve used the patch in the past who have ended up having side effects as a result.

You can read more about the side effects by visiting this information page: Ortho Evra Lawsuit – Birth Control Patch. This link will take you to a page where you will get more information, and also be asked a few simple screening questions to determine if you are at risk, or if you might need medical treatment or legal assistance.

Hopefully, if you have used Ortho Evra in the past or even presently you have not experienced any adverse side effects. I just wanted to get the word out about the potential problems with this form of birth control as I believe it’s important to be informed about medication that you might be taking.

Get a Beach Cruiser of your own

June 24, 2007 by Tricia

I would absolutely love to have one of these beach bikes. Don’t you just love the look of them?

The bikes are just simple one speed bikes but their design makes them great for riding – especially on sandy beaches.

I’ve actually been a fan of Beach Cruisers for a while now but I’ve yet to purchase one. However, looking at their 2007 line up of bikes I might just take the plunge and get a new bike.

There are so many different styles it’s mind boggling.

I love the low rider beach bike that is shown on the 2007 bike line up page. It looks so cool! You can get beach cruiser bikes for women, men, stick to the classic beach cruiser line, or show off your appreciation of design and style by getting one of their chopper cruisers.

If you want a bike for racing these bikes probably aren’t for you. They are designed for leisure riding. That’s why I think they’d be perfect for one of my favorite types of biking adventures.

You see, here in Toronto we have a fantastic beach area. There’s a boardwalk and bike bath that runs along Lake Ontario in the West downtown core of the city. It’s a lovely area, and because it’s so crowded you can’t really race along on a bike.

Since these bikes are designed to be ridden on slightly rough terrain like a sandy beach they’d be perfect because there is a large beach area beside Toronto’s board walk too.

The bikes are priced reasonably too. That low rider that I pictured above is only $155 dollars, and the yellow womans beach cruiser that I showed above and linked to is only $95. I’d actually swear that the prices have gone down since I last looked at this website. Even better if they did.

The bikes are shipped 80% assembled so there won’t be much work for you to do once your new bike arrives. They ship using FedEx and they do ship worldwide so no matter where you are you could be a proud owner of a beach cruiser.

Bad days

June 24, 2007 by Tricia

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.