Another crazy week last week! Sorry I am a bit late with this information, but I wanted to tell you what all happened.
10/6/2016 – Today I woke up in a lot of pain from my stomach area. It wasn’t a blockage pain, but like an all-over type of Crohn’s pain. I knew when I got up that it wasn’t going to be a good day and will become a bread and water type of day. In the morning, I didn’t eat any breakfast but I did drink some red grape juice. I sipped on a couple of glasses of the juice and by 1:30ish I decided I should try and eat a little something. I went downstairs to the pantry and as I was getting my Chicken Noodle soup, I had that I’ve got to puke feeling. I had to run all the way back upstairs and I barely made it to the bathroom before I vomited. I had been under a lot of stress this past week and Thursday was the day when it all caught up to me. I played it safe for the rest of the day and just nibbled on soft foods.
10/12/2016 – Today I had my first appointment with my new G.I. doctor. I really enjoyed talking with her. She actually listened to me instead of talking 20 mph over my head and telling me what I was going to do. I told her what happened this past summer with my old doctor, the steroids and my hospital stay from my flare up. She told me that my type of Crohn’s Disease may be the kind that responds more to steroids and not much of anything else. She didn’t see a reason why I shouldn’t stay on the Entecort if it would keep me out of surgery for another 1 -5 years. I think I actually told her that I loved her! That means if everything goes okay, I will not be having the surgery my other doctor told me that I needed, at least not in the near future. Whoo-hoo!
10/13-14/2016 – I’m not sure why, but the fatigue has really gotten to me these days. I don’t feel bad but I absolutely have no energy. The things that I had no problem doing a few days ago, I cannot muster the energy to do them now. My fingernails are also very brittle and are constantly breaking off. I have a feeling something is going to go down, I just don’t know when or what yet..
I do have a couple of questions for those of you reading this post. How do you cope with stress? What are some things that you do to de-stress yourself? I am curious as to how others deal with this. Sometimes stress gets the best of me even though I try my best not to let it. I know I say just take one day at a time, but sometimes even I have to be reminded to do as I say!
Chow for now!