One of the shows that I’m talking about is that one on TLC that shows people addicted to eating weird things like couch stuffing or hair. How can people possibly eat that kind of stuff and live? Really!

Then there are people that get high on bath salts. First .. I want to know how someone figured out that you could get high on bath salts? It had to be someone with a weird eating fetish that discovered this side effect, right? LOL .. well now these people can get bath salt abuse addiction rehab treatment if they really want it. I have no idea how you’d go about treating this kind of addiction, but I guess someone has figured it out.

I wonder what the next strange addiction or fad is going to be? So … have you watched any of these strange TLC shows? Where do they find these people?

While I was looking around online I came across some uniforms that I kind of like at Marcus nurses uniforms. Certainly if I do start back to work I’ll need some new uniforms so I’m sure I’ll buy a few new uniforms.

Have you ever had to take a medical leave from work for a long period of time and then had trouble getting back to work again? That seems to be what I’m going through. I’m still sick, but I think it would be a good think if I could go back to work … however working in the emergency department might be too much for me, I might just have to face up to that.

It’s not like he’s been trying to lose weight or that’s he’s found the best weight loss pill ever or anything … I think he’s just been walking a lot more lately and just eating a little less. Nothing too drastic – but it suddenly started to show – fast.

We were in a store earlier today and someone that worked with my husband at the hospital but hadn’t seen him in a while came up to us and made a big deal out of how skinny my husband looked. He actually said it made my husband look older … maybe that will make him eat a bit more? LOL

Anyway .. hopefully my husband doesn’t keep losing weight or I’m going to think something is seriously wrong with him.

In fact the last few weekends he’s been finishing up his training. He does everything from setting up the O.R.s for surgeries to assisting during surgery when needed. Assisting can be anything from helping hold a patients limb or handing things to a doctor or nurse during a procedure. I suppose if his hours continue to decline at the hospital between his experience as a Recovery Room assistant and his training in the OR he’d be able to apply for Surgical Technologist Jobs at other hospitals or clinics.

Hopefully between the two departments that my husbands been working in he’ll get enough hours. As of right now he’s working 6 and 7 days a week, but that’s only because he’s training in the OR once the training is done we’ll see what happens.

Anyway .. it’s been exactly a year since I quit smoking so that calls for a celebration and what better way to treat myself than to use some buckle coupons to buy some new clothes? Yep .. save some money and get some cool stuff. Uh huh … and if I don’t find anything for me at that store I can always use the coupons on something for one of my nieces I suppose.

So what do you think? Doesn’t that sound like a good enough reason to treat myself?

Perhaps it’s because my Crohn’s has been acting up more in the last two months or so as well. It’s almost as if I took one of the top 10 appetite suppressants or something though. I sure hope this feeling goes away soon.

I certainly don’t mind one of the side effects … I think I’ve lost a few pounds!

One thing I do like about the cooler weather is that it’s nice to get out and either take long walks or go for bike rides. Working out or being active is important year round, but I find it much easier in the spring and fall when the temperature outside is much more moderate to cool. I just get too hot in the summer if I really exert myself and well, sometimes here in the winter it’s just too cold to go outside for a long time.

Perhaps tomorrow if the weather is nice we’ll get out the thule bike rack and load up the bikes and go to a bike trail for a nice long ride.

Do you enjoy doing outdoor activities like biking, walking and running year round, or are you like me and prefer to do some of those activities when the weather is slightly cooler like during the Spring and Fall?

In the last 24 hours my head has been aching so bad I can barely do anything. Other than going out to the doctor for a scheduled appointment all I’ve been able to do is rest on the couch with an icepack on my head. I have shooting pains in the back of my head and sometimes I have visual disturbances – migraine auras that are something like the code picked up by a barcode scanner. All I want is for this migraine to disappear.

Perhaps if a thunderstorm starts up my migraine will go away once the storm passes?

Waiting to feel better …

Oh and speaking of storms .. when I am feeling better I’ll tell you about the tree that fell on my house a week and a half ago!

I realized the other day that we haven’t brought our dog to the dog beach yet this year. We normally bring her several times each summer. It’s very odd that we haven’t brought her to Cherry beach yet. So … unless the weather is bad on Monday I think we’re going to go to the beach. Chris and I can camp out on the sand and Midnight can frolic in the water like she loves to do.

Maybe later in the week we’ll get the hitch bike racks on the car and take our bikes to a park with some great bike trails and go for a really good bike ride. If my knee can handle it of course.

I guess you’d call this a staycation. Oh and the Beaches Jazz Festival is on right now, with the Beaches Street Jazzfestival being on next week when my husband is off … so well definitely go and do that. We can even bring the dog to that one if we want. So this is ok. It’s great that we live in a city with so much to do!

I’ve always had problems with my knees. Ever since I was a kid. You see my legs just aren’t built right. My tibia and fibia are off to the outer sides. Yes I could explain this better, but without adding diagrams that will have to do. Lets just say that the bones just aren’t quite in the right place and that means that my kneecaps are everything else isn’t quite in the right place either so that means that I’ve had a lot of cartlige rubbing on bone for most of my life.

Needless to say, once my doctor finally sent me for tests ie an MRI of each knee, the test results came back that I had Arthritis in my right knee – the knee that had been aching so bad it felt like a tooth ache and had been giving out on me all winter. I’m sure that my left knee also has arthritis it just couldn’t be seen yet, but within a year or so there will probably be enough damage that it will be diagnosable too.

Now that summer is here my knees aren’t hurting quite as bad as they were in the winter, but I’m getting ready for next winter. I’m ordering a don joy knee brace so that when my knee is bad I can use the brace. It will give it more stabilization and I’m sure my knee will feel a little bit better in the brace as well. It’s got to help.

Certainly with the brace on I’ll feel a more confidant on the stairs. I think my right knee gave out on the stairs at least 20 times this past winter. That’s scary!

I’m also waiting for an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon. Oh I don’t expect that I’ll be having knee surgery anytime in the near future. My knee isn’t bad enough yet, but I need to see a specialist to find out what kind of arthritis I have.