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I hate it when a family member has a health scare

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We had a scare the other day with my Father in Law. He’d called me at about 7:30 in the evening to remind me about something and he said that he was feeling off. I asked him if he was having pain or if he was just tired and he said “No, no pain, I think I just over did things on the weekend”. So you’re tired? Yeah, very tired.

We got off the phone a little while after that and then two hours later we got a call from my husbands oldest sister saying that her mom had just called her from the hospital. She’d taken my FIL to the hospital because he was complaining of chest pain but that his pain, when asked by the doctors was only about a 4 out of 10 .. so not too bad.

I immediately wondered if it was his gallbladder because he’d just been diagnosed with gall stones, although he hadn’t ever experienced any kind of pain from them up to that point.

Anyway the hospital he was in only did one blood test … for Troponin, we believe, as that’s an enzyme the heart puts out when it’s been damaged. They didn’t do a full work up to see if anything else was off.

After we heard that my husband father was sick we called his other sister (my husbands, not his fathers sister – if we’d called her she’d start thinking he was going to die and begin asking about funeral costs or something!) and she thought it was probably his gall bladder too.

With both his sister and I (both of us nurses) thinking his fathers symptoms sounded more like gall stones/gall bladder my husband calmed down a bit. His father is turning 82 this coming Monday so it’s easy to worry when he gets sick .. plus he already had one mild heart attack a few years ago.

Anyway .. they discharged him from the hospital at about 2:30 in the morning and he’s seeing his family doctor today … it seems it wasn’t a heart attack, but we still don’t know for sure what caused his chest pain.

Don’t you hate it when you have a health scare in your family?

The irony – I look better when I’m sick than I do when I’m healthy

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I was just saying in one of my last posts how I’ve been constantly battling illnesses this year and now I’m enjoying a lovely Crohn’s flare (NOT!).

One of the really odd things about me is that when I’m not feeling well I tend to not look too bad. Most people can’t tell I’m sick. Well .. ok those two colds I had this year don’t count because when I get a cold it’s bad bad bad … there’s no way someone couldn’t tell that I have a cold what with how red my nose gets and the chapped peeling skin around my nose. LOL

I think when I’m not feeling so hot that instead of turning pale or even gray like some people do I must get more color in my normally pale face. That must be why people never think I’m as sick or feel as awful as I say I am .. after all they’re looking at nice healthy pink cheeks.

Strange isn’t it? Do you look worse or better when you’re sick?

Anyway .. this time around … perhaps because I’ve been constantly sick for four long months … I do look awful. I haven’t been sleeping well the last few days and I feel exhausted. If I were to lay down right now I think I could easily fall asleep.

I have dark circles under my eyes right now. It’s terrible! I think when I feel a little better … good enough to at least go to the drug store I’ll look for some eye cream for dark circles and perhaps some concealer. I’m pretty sure if I use those products I’ll be back to feeling sick but looking healthy. LOL

Any recommendations for eye creams for dark circles under the eye or concealers? I have a few ideas, but I’m always interested in learning what products others like to use as well.

Anyway … since I’m feeling so bad no ones going to see me for a few days … if I need anything badly enough my husband can go out and get it for me when he gets home from work.

New Neighbors soon! The house next door is SOLD

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It looks like we’ll have new neighbors soon. Much sooner than I thought we would.

The house next door … you know, the one that the home owners son has been renting out for the last year to a series of awful people? Yeah, that one … they put it up for sale about a three weeks ago and amazingly it’s been sold.

I personally thought the price they were asking was too high for the house. It was low for my area … about a hundred thousand dollars lower than what most houses in my area are selling for … but since the house hasn’t ever had any renovations done on it and I think it needs a new furnace, air conditioner and generally a lot of work the price, to me at least, was about 50,000 higher than I thought it should have been.

Of course I have no idea how much it actually sold for. Perhaps they accepted a bid that was a lot lower than the asking price.

I also don’t know who bought the house or when they’ll be moving in. There was a man at the house on Thursday that must have had serious interest in it as I believe he had an inspection done. They were at the house for about three hours … but when the house didn’t have a sold sign up by that evening or even the next day I thought that if he made a bid at all it wasn’t accepted. Who knows … maybe they went back and forth with bids all weekend until they finally came to a deal on Monday (when the sold sign went up).

I’m just hoping that whoever moves in 1. doesn’t turn around and rent the house out to bad people again and 2. turns out to be a decent neighbor. My definition of a decent neighbor is someone who will say hi or at least be polite when you see them outside their house (especially important since we’ll have to take turns using our shared tiny one car driveway) and who is fairly quite (since our houses are so very close together). I don’t think that’s too much to ask.

Ok, gotta go and find something to eat that won’t bother my stomach. Geez it’s like I took a handful of the best diet pills on the market! I’m starving yet don’t really feel like eating as I know I’ll be in pain after I eat – thanks to my Crohn’s disease that’s activated again. See the post below for more on that if you’re interested.

The worst way to lose weight

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I’ve been having a bad year as far as illness goes. First it was two massive colds in a row, followed by pneumonia and then some strange flu like bug and now … well, my Crohn’s seems to have activated again in a big way.

Ow!

The only good thing about being sick for four months in a row is that it’s a good way to lose weight fast LOL. Not that I’d recommend it of course.

I guess my body had enough with fighting all the viruses and it made my Crohns (inflammatory bowel disease) that had actually been doing better than it has been in the last few years get worse again.

I’ve spent that last few days with terrible abdominal pain, fevers and not feeling much like eating or drinking anything at all. The pain is better today, but my head is swimming and I almost fainted earlier today. Somethings up and it’s not good.

Hopefully I’ll be feeling better soon and I’ll get this blog and my all my other blogs back on track. I certainly haven’t been writing much lately as it’s hard to concentrate and come up with writing ideas when you feel awful.

Struggling in this economy

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I know the economy is supposedly getting better but there’s still a lot of unemployed people out there.

Our next door neighbors for example … They both got laid off from their IT Jobs in late 2008 (I think) and then, to top things off they had a baby last February, plus they’d only bought their house in June 2008 so when you add everything up it wasn’t very good that they both lost their jobs.

The woman next door got a new job a few months ago, but her husband is still looking. I feel bad for them.

I certainly hope that now that the economy is truly getting better that he gets a new job soon too.

I know that my husband and I have been struggling. I’m on very extended medical leave and my husbands job is only part time although he does work 4 days a week and gets a pay premium for part time. It’s hard but we’ve been careful with our money and expenses so we’re surviving.

How are you doing? Have you managed to keep your job during this recession or did you lose it and have to struggle like so many others have?

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