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Daily Dose of Health – Skin Cancer?
Azathioprine aka Imuran is a drug given to transplant patients, those with severe arthritis and others with auto-immune diseases, like Ulcerative Colitis.
TW’s been taking this drug for quite some time and it’s worked pretty well, compared to the other drugs she tried. She’s pretty good about slathering sunscreen on if we’re outdoors for an extended period of time but probably not as good about it as she would have been had she known that she had an increased risk of skin cancer because of the Imuran.
If it’s not one thing, it’s another with these darn drugs. If it isn’t the original disease that gets you it’s some side effect or increased risk from the drugs. It’s darn frustrating.
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Daily Dose of Diet – Dogs
Did you know dogs love Capri Sun? Well it’s not just Capri Sun, these dogs are well known coffee, coke and hot chocolate fans, too. Everyone knows not to leave their drink sitting anywhere near the dogs because it will be gone as soon as you turn your back or even turn your head. Many a Starbucks drink has been lost to these dogs.
Monday morning there was a Capri Sun package on the living room floor. I figured a little kid had not thrown away the package and the dogs enjoyed gnawing on it to get the residuals out. Tuesday morning, another Capri Sun grimey and wet and full of dog gnawing marks. Again, I assumed a little kid leftover. Wednesday morning, same thing and I assumed it was Michelle’s Capri Sun package because she had been drinking a Capri Sun during Gilmore Girls. But, as I bent to pick that one up I noticed the straw was intact, still in its packaging a few steps away from the dog mangled pouch. Hmmm… This morning, another dog gone mangled Capri Sun. And again, an intact straw. What the….
I was pondering this question as I headed into the kitchen to toss the evidence in the trash when my leg knocked the Capri Sun box off of the shelf by the kitchen door. Ah ha! They are taking the Capri Suns out of the box in the kitchen and carrying them into the living room without pulling the box all of the way off of the shelf!
These dogs are geniuses when it comes to getting their Capri Sun fix.
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Daily Dose of Health – Podcast
Episode 5 of Crohn’s Talk podcast is out and Kerry is right – Prednisone stinks and when they tell you that all of those side effects will go away and the weight will go away … THEY LIE! 😉
Kerry talks about the shortage of Methotrexate, (there seems to be a shortage of Pentasa as well, based on some of the posts I’ve seen the Crohn’s & Colitis board), and she talks a bit about the other drugs for Crohn’s. Many of those are UC drugs as well. TW appreciated hearing her talk about Remicade. Her doctor is once again mentioning Remicade. Not good, sort of a last resort thing…
Jackie and his floating noodle story were a TRIP, lol. He pays a lot more attention than I do – I’d have never noticed it. 😉
Thanks Kerry and Jackie!
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Daily Dose of Life – Vacation and Back Again
I was on vacation. I’m not on vacation any longer. I miss vacation already but I’m not really sure why I miss it.
I didn’t go on vacation in the way “normal” people go on vacation. I didn’t take a trip to the beach or visit family or anything remotely close to that. I took vacation from work in order to regroup and prepare for September. I hate September. And I was really getting scared of September after the August I had. So. I. Took. Vacation.
I had big plans for my vacation. I had a very long list of things I was going to do. I had a long list of things I was not going to do. I had a long list of things I was going to blog about.
I make lists but I rarely achieve the things on my lists because the lists are too long. This time, I took those long lists and I created mini-lists and I actually got some things done. Not a lot of things done and that’s sort of disappointing. But as usual, my life got in the way and things that were not on my list appeared at the top and so it goes.
Join me as I review my lists and consider whether I should attempt another little vacation of this sort in the near future. (I hope my boss is not reading this and my coworkers don’t kill me for considering it after they so nicely covered for my short notice, surprise vacation request)
Things to Blog:
Michelle’s Reading List
Michelle’s World Religions
Why I Want a Hybrid
Michelle and the Pecans
Virtues
Being a Bad Unitarian
Vegetarians Who Don’t Eat Vegetables
Boys
Us/Them
Things I am NOT Doing:
Reading my boards
Reading anyone else’s boards
Reading my work email
Taking work conference calls
Laundry
Things to Get DONE:
Call Gateway
Get the cats spayed
Clean the kids bathroom closet
Clean the cat closet
Deal with J’s Game Cube issues
Paint E’s dresser
Deal with the little kid clothing chaos
Organize the videos and DVDs
Stow the recent purchases piled up in the bedroom
Put away the TW laundry mountain
Us/Them – TG stuff for Koan
Clean the closet
Clean my office
Prepare Michelle’s curriculum
Install software on Michelle’s computer
Clean the kitchen cabinets
Write 2 reports
Read, a lot
Write in the “Brilliant Women Journal”
Take TW to the doctor for her “procedure”
Unlisted Things That Got Done:
Supervised Hazel a lot
3 trips to Publix
3 trips to CVS
1 trip to Walgreens
2 trips to the car dealer
1 trip to the smelly bookstore
1 trip to the women’s bookstore
A Meme blog post
Some Katrina Red Cross posts
Baked Banana Bread
Set up TW’s new telephones
Shopped a LOT on eBay in the Red Cross auction areas
I miss my vacation. I want another one. Soon.
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Daily Dose of Help – Donate
I’ve been shopping on ebay this morning. I’ve been shopping the auctions that are set up to donate to the American Red Cross. Surf over and place your bids or set up your own charity auction!
Kerry mentioned this the other day, if you’re thinking about joining the ranks of podcasters, consider Libsyn. If you donate $50 to the American Red Cross, they’ll give you a year worth of podcasting service for free!
What are you waiting for? Go shop, go podcast – do something!
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Daily Dose of Health – Podcasts
Kerry and Jackie managed to do their fourth Crohn’s Talk podcast even though they were in the path of Hurricane Katrina. We’re glad they made it through ok.
The fourth podcast was really SHORT, what’s up with that? We need another ten minutes! 😉 Jackie talked about prepping for an emergency and that’s some information worth thinking about NOW rather than once a disaster hits, ya know?
I’ve got to agree with Carrie about the worms – if that’s a cure, they can keep the cure. YUK! The bacterial treatment though, that’s interesting. I don’t think the results thus far are all that promising though. But, like Jackie said, all tests and ideas are good because they may lead to other tests and trials and ideas and that’s how you ultimately find a cure!
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Daily Dose of Help – Donate
CD baby has a gallery of indie artists who are donating all of the profits from the sale of their cds to the American Red Cross! Get over there today and do some early holiday shopping and send a wee bit more money to those in need!
Check out the photos and prints on Flickr that are up for auction! If you win the auction, you make a donation to the Red Cross, send proof of your donation and you will receive the print. This is another great way to donate just a little bit more to this cause, just don’t bid on the prints I want. 😉
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Daily Dose of Help – In Columbia
My friend Lee was inspired by FB and his Houston Helps relief effor that she created her own relief site for Katrina Relief in Columbia, SC.
Way to go, Lee and all of you folks in Columbia, SC who are helping those in need.
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Daily Dose of Help – In Houston
I found FatBlogger ages ago and have really enjoyed his blog. He’s a nice man and he gives good diet blog to boot. Well as much as I liked him before, I am really liking him now.
He’s temporarily abondoned FatBlogger and set up shop on Houston Helps and I think that’s terrific! Way to go FB, you’re a good guy.
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