Journal Entry for February 10, 2009
February 10, 2009 5:08pm
Try to walk everyday with tobey, and work with weights with my son …
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BambiBear
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About Me
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About Me
My name is Gail, and I am a 42 mother of one son who is my world. I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease at age 18 and had a few up and downs with it. I have panic attacks every once in a while. I enjoy my close friends here on DS, and wouldn't do without them. I am sensitive and creative, but I have a sweet natured heart. I believe everyone needs friends on the site here to lift them up when their feeling down. My Crohns is in remission and has been for several years, and I don't struggle too much with panic attacks. Sometimes they come on all of a sudden, but I can usually talk myself out of them. This is me and who I am, and I am picky about friends I have here on DS.
My name is Gail, and I am a 42 mother of one son who is my world. I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease at age 18 and had a few up and downs with it. I have panic attacks every once in a while. I enjoy my close friends here on DS, and wouldn't do without them. I am sensitive and creative, but I have a sweet natured heart. I believe everyone needs friends on the site here to lift them up when their feeling down. My Crohns is in remission and has been for several years, and I don't struggle too much
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I enjoy movies, bowling, going on trips, cruises ( they are a lot of fun), going to the beach, just getting away, no matter what your doing, sometimes you just need a break. I am the type I need a break about every 2 1/2 to every 3 months, after 3 months, I start getting anxious and, I have to get away.
I enjoy movies, bowling, going on trips, cruises ( they are a lot of fun), going to the beach, just getting
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Close Crohn's Disease & Ulcerative Colitis
I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease at the age of 18. I was always sick as a child, and I can remember being sick and throwing up at the age of 6. I was hospitalized the summer before 8th grade, I was 13. They didn't do any x-rays, or upper GI or a colonoscopy. All they did was draw blood. I was in the hospital for 3 weeks, and the Dr.'s finally said I had mono. I think I had Crohn's then, but they didn't do any test for it. When I was diagnosed at 18. Crohn's is a debilitating disease.
Treatments
- Avoid Certain Foods / Chemicals Working / Worked
- I am trying to eat what doesn't upset my stomach, but it's hard, cause a lot of things bother my stomach. So I eat what my stomach can tolerate
- Hydrocodone Working / Worked
- helps with the severe pain I have sometimes.
- Lomotil Working / Worked
- works when my stomach wants to coooperate with it
- Purinethol Working / Worked
- I have been on the 6mp treatment for about 2yrs. now and it really helps a lot. I know if I miss a days dose, so I make sure I don't ever miss a day of taking my medicine. Right now I am on a 50 mg tablet daily called Mercaptopurine
- Xanax Working / Worked
- I am also on 2mg of Xanax, with the 1 mg of Ativan, I am to take both 4 times a day.
Close Bereavement
Type: Loss of a ParentMy father passed away suddenly in Feb. of 2006. My father's wife kept his insurance money from his policy at the post office, and my mother paid to have him buried. The dr. wrote on his death certificate, cause of death, coumadin overdose.????
Treatments
- Crying Working / Worked
- I cry, and it helps for the moment, and that is about as helpful as it is, but when I do cry, I try to make it a good long healthy cry to get it out of my system...
- Getting Angry Working / Worked
- I am angry at his I won't say his wife but the person he was with.
- Music Working / Worked
- My Dad loved to sing, and has some music, I have about 6 tapes and my sister has the same 6 tapes and they are copywrited by the Broadcast Music Assoc. in Washington, so listening to his tapes and his singing helps a lot.
- Pets Working / Worked
- I have a solid black long haired cat, and her name is sassy, and she helps a lot, she is a loving cat.
- Prayer Working / Worked
- I pray that things will get better, and I know my father is guarding over me, watching and keeping me safe.
- Remembering Working / Worked
- Scrapbooking Working / Worked
- just started working on a scrapbook of my family, my mother and I are doing it together.
- Talking Working / Worked
- I talk to my mom about him when I start missing him.
- Time Working / Worked
- People say time heals all wounds, I don't find that true, I think it's what you do in that time that heals your wounds.
Open Depression
Type: Clinical (Major) DepressionI have been depressed since I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, at age 18.
Treatments
- DailyStrength Working / Worked
- I have a lot of wonderful friends here on DS, I have really had a good support system on DS also.
- Effexor Working / Worked
- I was diagnosed the depression in 1990, I had an eeg done, and was told i have a chemical imbalance in the brain, off by one chemical. So I have been on Effexor since 1990, and it has always worked
- Support from Friends & Family Working / Worked
- I have a big family support system, they worry about me too much, but they are there when I need them
- Wellbutrin Working / Worked
- My Dr., put me on Wellbutrin on this week Monday Oct. 8, 07, and so far it's doing ok. He wants me to take it with the Effexor. He prescribed 150 mg.
Open Female Sexual Issues
I have a colostomy due to the fact that I fell in the shower on Easter Sunday of 2000.When I fell I didn't know I had torn my colon open and was toxic, I needed emer. surgery and they had to give me a colosomy, the dr. says it saved my life, but I am ashamed to meet anyone and date because I have it. And I don't think anyone will want me this way. So I stay at home in my room. I don't go on dates, cause I know a man will run when he finds out about he colostomy, and I dont want to be hurt.
Treatments
- Premarin Working / Worked
- So far it works and has helped out a lot since my hysterectomy in April of this year 07.
Open Panic Attacks
I have panic attacks if I have to drive or go somewhere alone. I went through this 15yrs ago, and overcame it, and now I am going through it again. I don't feel confident. I feel afraid if I am by myself out in public.
Treatments
- Effexor Working / Worked
- working
- Xanax Working / Worked
- I have been on xanax since I was 22 and had my first anxiety attack, I think what brought these attacks on was that my husband was verbally and physically abusive, and I left him when Lee was 9mos. old, because he lost his temper with Lee and popped his hand real hard and I was determined Lee and myself deserved better than that, so I asked for a divorce when lee was 9mos. old, and then we separated and tha was it.
Open Chronic Pain
I have severe Crohn's disease with a colostomy bag.
Treatments
- Hydrocodone Working / Worked
- I am on a duragesic patch 25mcg, and i am give 120 hydrocodone 10\325 take 2 tablets 4 times a day,which is a 15 day supply. I don't take it like I should because I have the patch.
Open Loneliness
I am lonely, and I have stopped dating and interacting with the outside world at all. I do what I have to do outside of the home, but I don't get close to anyone, and meeting someone and dating is out of the question as far as I am concerned. I associate with my mother and my son, the rest of the family when need be, other than that I sit in my room alone and watch tv alone, I eat alone, I do everything alone, and I have peace not drama and conflict of anybody treading on my happiness like that.
