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07 Mar 2010 Yuk…
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Wednesday I babysat Benton and he had been sick with the runs. He leaned over, while I held him on my lap, and decided to munch on my lip. Well the next afternoon I got sick as a dog and spent most of the next couple days in the bathroom trying to decide which end to put where 1st! I had a fever, vomiting and the runs. It was not fun. I was so sick I was thinking about wholesale life insurance because I thought for sure I was going to die.

I’ve been doing nothing but sleeping, puking and pooping.. not fun.. not fun at all. And joy of all joys… hubby just told me he’s not feeling real good right now! *cry* That’s all I need is for him to be sick. When he’s sick he’s really cranky and miserable. I just want to run and hide.

Thank goodness I started feeling better today. I’m not 100% but I’m better.

I haven’t been really sick in years. I’ve had days where I felt a little off and then I felt better in a couple hours or the next day.

If hubby is getting this.. it’s not gonna be fun *sigh*

01 Mar 2010 Something’s going around
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Some kind of bug has been making the round through the family. My sister-in-law and niece were sick last week with the runs and vomiting. Then on Saturday night Andi got it too but managed to stop it with some Imodium. Yesterday I came down with the runs and borrowed some Imodium from Andi. I babysat Benton last night and he had the runs too (poor little guy).

No one needed any appetite suppressants because they were too sick to eat. That house needs to have a good disinfecting to get rid of the sick germs (it’s not that the house is dirty.. it’s kept very clean).

I haven’t talked to Andi yet today to see how Benton is doing. Hopefully he’s ok. Everyone else is feeling better and getting back to normal.

01 Mar 2010 Having a hard time
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I’ve been trying to find some Tea Tree Oil because I have thick toenails which is caused by a fungus. From what I’ve been reading Tea Tree Oil will help get rid of that and give me normal toenails again.

I’ve been to the supermarket and CVS looking for it. No luck at the supermarket and CVS was apparently restocking because the aisles were loaded with boxes of merchandise like testosterone creams, OTC sleeping pills, headache remedies, etc that I couldn’t see a lot of the items on the shelves.

I guess I’m going to have to order it online. I hope I find a place with free shipping because I don’t want to spend and arm and a leg for that stuff.

07 Jan 2010 Twitchy Woman
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Ever since I had my spinal fusion surgery a few years ago I’ve had tingling in my legs. The tingling slowly developed into twitches. The twitches now make my whole body jerk. I’m fine when I stand, but I can’t stand for long periods. The happens mostly when I sit certain ways or when I’m laying down. It’s more of an annoyance than anything. The doctors have told me that I’d most likely end up with permanent nerve damage and I guess this is a side effect of that damage.

It must look like, to other people, that someone came up behind me and poked me and made me jump. It doesn’t happen when I’m sitting in the car driving thank goodness… that could be a huge problem. I jerk so hard that I’d probably end up crashing the car. It’s like when you’ve just fallen asleep or are almost asleep and you get that “I’m falling” feeling and you jump and wake up.

It’s only on my right side, which is the side that was injured in 2001 that caused me to have 2 back surgeries. And it’s just the strangest feeling too. I can feel it coming. It starts with a tiny fluttering feeling just above my foot. It moves slowly up my leg and it gets to a certain point and then BAM… I jump/jerk. Just so very annoying. It will happen several times in a row then go away for awhile then I feel it coming back again. It’s a viscous cycle… calm, twitchy, jerky, calm, twitchy, jerky.. rinse and repeat!

28 Jul 2009 OMG that hurt!!!
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Last night I bent over and scooped up JoJo with my right arm. As soon as I did that I felt the pain from hell in my arm. I don’t know what I did. It hurt all the way from my shoulder down to my fingertips. I didn’t want to go to the ER so I took 3 Tylenol Arthritis and in about an hour the pain started to subside.

I was able to get to sleep and when I woke up it didn’t feel too bad except that it feels like someone is sticking a bunch of needles in my hand and wrist. My should and elbow are aching now and I did take some more Tylenol. It seems like typing is not helping it at all right now.

I think I’ll just get off the computer and read or something…

07 Dec 2008 Magnets help
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I got the chance to review one of those magnetic bracelets that are supposed to help to ease pain. It couldn’t have come at a better time. Every few months I get this pain in my left hand right between my thumb and index finger that radiates up into my wrist and elbow. It usually lasts at least 1 week to up to 2 weeks and pain relievers just take the edge off the pain. I put on this bracelet and within a couple hours the pain was almost gone.

The bracelet is pretty too. It’s silver and gold plated copper and has 6 2000 gauss north pole facing magnets (3 on each end of the bracelet, at the underside of the wrist). I never believed that wearing copper or magnets could really help with pain. I thought it was all in people’s head. So you see I went in to this being very skeptical and was proven wrong.

Wearing magnets can help all kinds of conditions such as arthritis, osteoarthritis, joint pain and swelling, hip pain, fibro-myalgia, diabetic neuropathy, muscle pain, headaches, backaches, neck pain, knee pain, carpal tunnel, poor circulation, tennis elbow, tendonitis, etc. They also say that magnets can help with the quality of sleep. The last part I can’t verify because I take meds at night to help me fall asleep. Experts and a lot of studies say that about 80% of people who have pain can benefit from magnetic therapy. About 200 million people around the world use magnets to help ease the pain of many different conditions.

I would love to get a wrap belt and see if it helps the back pain that I still have after 2 back surgeries.

11 Nov 2008 Falling apart
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I’m falling apart at the seams. Not literally, but physically. Today my back was killing me right in between my shoulder blades. I think it’s stress but I’m not sure or it could be all the bending over at my desk at work. My feet still hurt from wearing heels on Halloween. I only wore them for a couple hours before I took them off. Maybe I should have worn some MBT shoes instead. My feet wouldn’t be hurting now if I had.

I think I’m going to get off of the computer, get in my nice comfy jammies and vegetate on the couch for the rest of the night!