How do you feel today?

Colitis-wise I'm doing okay. I'm still in remission, but barely. I've been under much stress lately. I'm between jobs. My days are filled talking to recruiters and interviewing either on the phone or in person. Many of the people who are interviewing me know far less than I, yet I'm still not getting any job offers. It used to be that once I got the job interview, I got the job. It's no longer like that.

loopylil said...
Coming to the end of a 4 month flare yippeeeeeee
Today is hot in UK and very sunny get your flip flops out!



Justwrong where in Ireland are you?



Doz79 i have a personal trainer 2x a week and she makes me do squats with a ball between my knees i'm aching all over today as well.

Hi Loopylil..
Im from Sunny Belfast!!.. and yourself??

Quincy,

Harvey's is not an American company. Harvey's is a fast food restaurant chain that operates in Canada, with locations concentrated in southern and eastern Ontario, southern Quebec, the Maritimes, and urban Alberta.

Robaxacet is not sold in the US because methocarbamol is not an otc product. There is no comparative product sold. You can definitely get prescriptions but that would be much more expensive and actually doctors do not like to recommend this drug. I obviously do not take the Platinum... We cannot purchase Robaxin here otc. Walmart and Costco do not sell this kind of drug.

Eggrolls: Very different in the US. They use cabbage instead of bean sprouts... and other strange vegetables. Our chinese food here has a strong Korean and Vietnamese influence rather than Cantonese. And... they do not know what plum sauce is here.....

Feeling pretty good today.

Went to the doc this morning. He thinks my flare is over but I have a hemorrhoid or something which is causing the blood. I honestly thought I would be back on prednisone today, but he said nope. Got a colonoscopy scheduled next month.

Had basically no pain today. Had a nice BM earlier which I was stoked about (some of you may know I've been desperately waiting, lol)

Tried some hot wings today (my favorite food) for the first time in over a month. We'll see how the colon reacts. It's been about 5 hour since lunch...So far, so good.

Quincy,

Healthcare is very different here.  If you have a sore back, you go to your GP.  Then he orders X-rays for you... no script without x-rays.  He may even send you to an Ortho doctor.  Then the doctor will give you scripts for vicodin and a muscle relaxer.  The whole process can be repeated over and over and over.... Even if it has been a couple of months since the last incident.  Everyone makes money.  When I have a sore back, I take Robaxacet for a few days, do some gentle stretches, rest, ice.... and it goes away.  That is why I cherish my Canadian Robaxacet.

Fruitgirl:  Down here in Texas, there is no plum sauce.  I have seen a poor version of it in the grocery store that tasted terrible.  When you get Chinese, you can ask for Duck sauce... completely different that the plum sauce I grew up with in Ontario.  Not sure about the northern states.. they probably have plum sauce, but way down here... nada.  I dream about Canadian eggrolls with hot mustard and plum sauce.. Mmmmmm

Lonie-Done.

Nor_TX: I haven't seen plum sauce at any restaurants up here (in NJ), duck sauce here too. Also cabbage-y egg rolls. I didn't know anyone made them with bean sprouts.

Great, now I want Chinese food and I was spoiled in college between NYC's China Town and an awesome little hole in the wall place in the city I went to college in, so nothing around here quite measures up. darn it, I need wontons lol.

I am feeling pretty good today. Better than yesterday, mood-wise. Amazing what some sunshine can do. Yesterday we had that same "downpour" that fruitgirl had.

Had a call to confirm my appointment with an orthopedic surgeon on Tuesday... starting to get nervous about that.