So, how was your day?

[Michael88]

Oh God. Right out of the blue? I'll support you in your fight against it.

If you don't mind disclosing, what disease is it?

Sure, its Colitis Ulcerosa, that is the last 50 centimeters of my gut (up to about stomach level) having chronic inflammation to the point I have to go to the toilet 20x per day/night, having severe cramps and completely bloody-watery diarrhea. ''Fortunately'' the parts responsible for breaking down the food and supplying me with the essential nutrients are not affected by this disease so I wont starve. But as you can imagine, I'm basically trapped in my house / hospital, cant travel anywhere and even at home I sometimes crap in my pants because I have little control over my guts. And I need to be very careful not to dehydrate.

Good news is, there are very good advanced treatments for that problem that will most likely bring me back to a relatively normal life, but these meds start to kick in in a month or so. And I've already been suffering from this problem for two months now. And I will need to take them regularly for the rest of my life, plus I will need to turn my life over to reduce stress. Not sure how to do that.

Causes for this disease are mostly unknown, it is probably linked to loads of negative stress, genetics, bad eating habits, plus 90% of the people who get this disease are my age and live in 1st world countries. This disease is currently on an extreme rise in northern and middle European countries and also Canada.
Fun fact: for some reason people who smoke do not get this disease, making it even more of a mystery.

I never had even the tiniest problem with my guts and from one day to another all hell broke loose. Its crazy. Guess chronic diseases can hit anyone anywhere completely unexpected, like a curse.

I'm really down right now.

 

[Obelisk]

Oh, that sounds absolutely painful. I wish you the best of luck with your battle against it. If you need to vent about it, my private messages are always open.

 

[Michael88]

Oh, that sounds absolutely painful. I wish you the best of luck with your battle against it. If you need to vent about it, my private messages are always open.

Thank you for your kindness, but that was venting enough already, its a pathetic disgusting disease that does not deserve to be mentioned any further.
Now I'll have to go back to the hospital to endure till the medications kick in, hopefully.

 

[kikie]

Forgot to say that yesterday when I was repairing my compressor, I touched one of the contacts with 220V. It hurt (past tense).

 

[TB]

Dropped the kids off at camp. Quiet until Friday.

Even quieter starting Tuesday when my wife goes to a conference until Saturday.

Not sure what to do with myself but I'm sure I'll figure out nothing.

 

[Adamgp]

I got today and tomorrow off which is good, giving me a 4 day weekend.

The bad is I've been having some mild abdominal pain for the last couple days. Going tomorrow morning to get it checked out. Doesn't seem like anything serious, but I'd like to know for sure.

 

[MatskiMonk]

Bad weekend.

Realised that I've not taken any proper photos in a year, came round to doing the photography for a local event, and not only did I do a sub-optimal job, I just didn't enjoy it... I also broke my 50mm prime, my 28-105 has an alignment issue of some sort, and my memory card lunched itself when I plugged it in to my laptop.

This matters to me, because of the two things that I still really care about, taking photos at certain events is one. I also topped up my heat stroke symptoms from a week ago, so pretty much feel like dying also.

 

[GTvsForza]

Had a hell of a migraine today. I was disoriented, sick and couldn't concentrate at work. They sent me home after lunch.

 

[AbsoluteBarstool]

Depressing, patchy - just came home and wondered why the hell I'm still allowed to admin on the GT Wiki after basically becoming absent from the site for a year. This is a thought because I've been meaning to put a bit of time into it for ages, but the whole thing just turns to dust as soon as I actually get home. Woo.

At least my work in general means that one of the government's registers is generally accurate. I'll leave anyone who wants to to guess which one.

 

[kikie]

👍 and probably 👍👍 if I decide to buy pCars 2 special Edition (DVD) for €29.95.

 

[Michael88]

I was healing up nicely, there was no blood in my stool anymore and the inflammation was nearly gone - and then I made a terrible mistake and the whole progress I made went to hell in a single day.

Frustration.

But I am not destroyed this easily, I will rebuild, bigger and better, especially now that I know I can heal up on myself, if I can do it once I can do it twice for sure.

 

[kikie]

It is still going but so far, so good. Still nice weather, made an appointment to get my car fixed, so no more worries about that. Watched the last episode of CSI: Cyber and Falling skies. I loved Falling skies and the way the show ended.

Only one problem though, I want to go to the gym but my body says; NO! so I'm going to stay home. Luckily, I went yesterday.

 

[Dave A]

I was healing up nicely, there was no blood in my stool anymore and the inflammation was nearly gone - and then I made a terrible mistake and the whole progress I made went to hell in a single day.

Frustration.

But I am not destroyed this easily, I will rebuild, bigger and better, especially now that I know I can heal up on myself, if I can do it once I can do it twice for sure.

That's definitely the right attitude, all the best that you manage to recover as well as possible. Ups and downs hit everyone whether it's ilness, work, family, whatever, being able to have a positive outlook helps massively.

@kikie my body says no every day, I do manage to walk past a gym at least once most days though, that counts as going to me... ish.

 

[MedigoFlame]

It started off okay, but it got considerably worse as the day went on...

The general manager of the dealership was so upset by the stupidest possible thing (that was not under my control) and made me work outside in the pouring rain. And then...I nearly got into a head on accident with a commercial truck. After dropping my co-worker off at a body shop to pick up a car, I was heading back to the dealership. But had my life flash before my eyes once I noticed one of those "light"-ish duty commercial trucks stray far from their lane straight towards me. Slammed on my horn AND brakes, swerving towards the curb to avoid having the truck drive into the A-pillar of the company car I was driving. Honestly felt like once we both came to a complete stop, he was a foot or less from the car I was driving. No idea if he was asleep at the wheel or on his phone. By the time I got back to the dealership, I was shaking uncontrollably. I can say that's probably the closest I've ever been to such an accident...

Here's a rough mock up of how it went. The truck is the red line and I was the blue line.

 

[Obelisk]

I'm glad you're safe and sound, Medigo. Sounds like an absolutely terrifying experience.

 

[MedigoFlame]

I'm glad you're safe and sound, Medigo. Sounds like an absolutely terrifying experience.

Thanks. I've had some sketchy close calls before, but this was honestly the scariest. I've had people stray into my lane over a double yellow line, but this was a lot of space between both lanes with the center turning lane and I had never really thought I'd see a truck come barreling straight towards me. When I hit my horn I could see the driver jump in his seat, but I didn't really get the chance to see if he was asleep or on his phone.

 

[kikie]

F:censored:ing awsome.

Yesterday I think that my father had a religious revelation. In a split second he decided to kiss the ground. Result an injured hip and glute. I helped him up - he can't get up on his own because he is an invalide due to a severe medical blunder - but didn"t say anything about the pain he had.
He called the doctor without telling me anything. To make a long story short:

Ambulance >> ER (A&E) where we spend more than 2 hours.
No fractures >> was sent home.
Can hardly move because of the pain
He refuses help from a nurse to come to our place and help out making my life even more difficult and miserable.

I had to cancel an appointment with the dentist and a thing I was going to do this afternoon. I hardly slept last night, I feel down etc ... .

So, yesterday was indeed ****ing awesome and today isn't going to be any better.

 

[Michael88]

I can barely walk and move around -which is quite a inconvenience- because my thigh muscles are so sore. Guess thats what you get when you do squats with a bar so heavy that it bends.

 

[kikie]

I feel much better and the thing this afternoon is back on schedule.

 

[W3H5]

Despondent today. I don’t know if it’s just a dip in mood or whether it’s serious and I should up my meds. A few days have passed and yet the feeling of inward frustration hasn’t.

 

[Michael88]

For the first time in 5 months I had normal stool again. I know this sounds completely weird but considering my guts were producing only blood and brown water like up to 20 times / day for months combined with unbearable pains this is quite the reason to party. My life might not be totally screwed after all!

 

[kikie]

What a day. 8 hours to fix my father's bed but I did it.

 

[666666]

Well today I saved the life of a 2 day old kitten whilst on my delivery round. Driving down a narrow country lane I spotted something odd on the side of the road, but at that time was unable to stop cos there was another vehicle behind me. So a few minutes later I’m driving back and I decided to stop and take a look. I was very suprised to see a very small kitten with a nasty looking cut on its back I was even more suprised to see it move so I picked it up . I wrapped it up in my high viz jacket phoned my daughter to meet me and take it to the vets.The kitten is now at ours being fed every 2 -3 hours by wife.the only thing I can think is a bird of prey or rat ect took it and somehow lost it by the side of the road.The nearest farmhouse to where I found it is a quarter of a mile away and there are a few feral farm cats there.

 

[kikie]

Started off not so good. The pain center can help my father anymore. He has an appointment at a multidisciplinary hospital. Problem is that he always changes his mind and refuses help.

I told him that he has two options, get help or go to a retirement home. It is getting too much for me.

 

[MedigoFlame]

Being woken up at 4AM every weekday is getting extremely tiring. Thanks to my new(ish) neighbors who moved in a month ago and one of them gets up and revs his ****ing Audi S4 every morning with the loudest possible exhaust.

Today was no different, but I got even less sleep after struggling to fall asleep until 1AM. Once again, waking up to the Audi S4 and not being able to fall back asleep, I could already tell this would be a frustrating day. Made even worse coming into work and seeing the first email from the general manager of the dealership directly complaining to me that I wasn't doing my job. Despite the fact that I WAS, but my job depends on other people to do their job. Which they aren't.... Anytime I bring up that fact all he can respond with is "Oh..." and does absolutely nothing. But everything has to come back to me.... "Why isn't this done?" Because the other department didn't do their job, so I can't exactly skip that step and do mine... "But it's making us LOOK BAD!" This is the exact same crap I had to deal with at the last dealership I worked at. The general managers being more concerned with looking bad than getting things done RIGHT.

I swear I'm going to rip my hair out with the fact that I work with people who seem like all they'd do is to show up to work, breathe, then go home waiting for their paycheck.

I just feel like I'm becoming even more miserable every day.... I feel myself being angry at the "small things."

 

[Michael88]

I rushed to the hospital because of severe pain in my stomach, given my inflamed bowel situation I thought the infection finally worked its way through the guts. Got a computed tomography (holy **** the contrast agent burns like fire), according to the doc the results clearly show all my gut inflammation is gone completely! The words of the doc were ''it all looks very beautiful, liver and kidneys too, no trace of an inflammation left''.
She said the pain most likely comes from my stomach and funnily, the pain went away and didn't come back after the diagnosis so I guess it was stress-related.

So I really managed to combat this illness my own way with my own medications - I still have to take the -thankfully-, very tame meds to calm down the chloride channels in my guts, otherwise diarrhea will set in again and damage my guts over time until the inflammation returns.

So if any of you have an inflamed bowel, try tannic acid and albumin, those are very tame supplements with basically no side effects and they worked magnitudes better than even the most brutal dosages of cortisone. Give it a try.

 

[kikie]

Very interesting day.

Woke up, ate, went to a local store to get some food. Went to the gym and trained my legs and upper back (combination of calisthenics and other exercises). Came home, started to make lunch immediately. When I was doing the dishes, a friend from the gym arrived with his new second-hand 2012 Chevrolet Cruze. He wanted to lower his car and put new 18 inch wheels on his car. Problem was, his car was already lowered and we couldn't get a jack under his car so we improvised with wooden beams and planks. After a while we got his car jacked up and secured it with 4 axle stands. He adjusted his coilovers and lowered the car.

Getting the car down was another challenge. Because his car was lowered, we had to put more wooden planks under the wheels. It was such a dangerous and ridiculous thing we did but we pulled it off.


His old Chevrolet wheels.

He noticed that I was taking a photo. I said you are going on the internet. And I kept my promise.

He was trying to adjust his rear right coilover but needed my help.

It was fun.


BTW, you can admire my newly grown grass I sowed a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Sonygamer455]

It's been okay. We lost power yesterday and were without it for about 23 hours due to hurricane Florence and I didn't sleep very well last night on top of that. We have no damage to our house as far as I can tell and thankfully we got back sometime after lunch and it's been pretty refreshing ever since. Hopefully the worst part is over now.....

 

[kikie]

Tomorrow evening is going to be an interesting evening. That guy with his Chevrolet Cruze is coming again to lower his car even more. Luckily for us, we are not going to make a dangerous construction anymore to get the car higher off the ground. Only two wooden beams would suffice.

 

[Adamgp]

Pretty good day.

I weighed myself for the first time in months and found I've lost 10lbs over the summer. That is despite not doing much of anything resembling exercise, not laying off the alcohol, and eating like a 12 year old at a carnival.

I was having some issues this week with my Tivo/cable and was going to call one or both Tivo & cable company and find out what was going on, but the issue seems to have fixed itself. Saving me what might have been hours on the phone, which was nice.

The only bad thing that happened was I accidentally tore one of my favorite t-shirts in half.