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  • Niceness of People

    It really is amazing how nice people in general are. When you don’t feel well, you can start to get pretty pessimistic about things, but over the last couple weeks people’s generosity has really shined through and renewed my faith in mankind. Once I hit the hospital doors, people necessity to help really has kicked…

  • Prednisone and Marital Bliss

    Over the past couple of years I have really learned what Prednisone can do to your relationships with people that you deal with a lot. I’ve always known that coming off the Prednisone makes me someone cranky and hard to be around for a few days while my body adjusts to the new level. I…

  • Positive Motion

    These next many posts are going to be a bit random, but I wanted to get some things down and start blogging again, so here goes. The first thing that I find very exciting is that I am up near my “pre-disaster” body weight. Prior to this whole body situation a couple of years ago,…

  • Putting my daughter to sleep

    Just a quick post tonight, but last night I was putting my daughter to bed–usually Chris does this, but we are trying to switch over because if Chris does it, she can’t leave the bed (Daphne wakes up if mommy leaves, but not dad). Anyway, she fell asleep with me in the rocking chair and…

  • NaBloPoMo

    This month is the national blog posting month and in the spirit of NaBloPoMo, I am going to try to post each day this month. We’ll see how it goes. I’ve been having a hard time actually getting the blog posts up here. I think about them and what I would want to write and…

  • Frustration

    The first several of these posts are going to probably be just about my ulcerative colitis and my past experiences and my current plans, trials and tribulations. This is just to get it all out in the open and out there, but then I’ll get on to other topics. Today was a very frustrating day…

  • Getting Started

    All right! This is my first real post on this blog. I’ve been meaning to set up a blog for a long time, but I finally sat down and bought the name and set it up. So here we go. I figured I would just blog about anything that occurred to me to blog about.…