SunnyDee's Diary

Awww... thanks for all the concern. You guys are so sweet. :)
No need to worry. I'm doing much better now. I've been pretty normal for the past three days. *knock on wood* More importantly, I'm in good spirits again. :D I don't feel like a total lump of garbage like I did the past two weeks. I had to take some time off school and go stay with my parents for a while. So now I'm really behind in all my work, which sucks. I managed to stay out of the hospital, although I was fairly certain last weekend that I would end up there again. In retrospect, I really should have gone. But it's impossible to make a judgement call when you're that sick.
I also refused to start taking the Prednisone. I'm pretty sure my healthcare providers have now labelled me "noncompliant", but I don't give a damn. My current med regime has done me nothing but good ever since I was diagnosed. Only one major flare-up since I was 17 is not worth screwing with it.
I won't bother telling you how much weight I've lost. It's kinda depressing. And painfully ironic. At this point, I'm not associating my lower weight with being the least bit sexy. I have gained back 3 lbs though. I wanna at least go back up to 148 so I don't feel like I'm working with a sick body. I want to look normal by Halloween so I won't mind posting pics.
All in all, I feel good! Just keeping my fingers crossed that I stay this way. Gonna try to find time to hit some diaries later. I need to know what's going on with everybody!
 
WELCOME BACK, THANK GOD YOU'RE OK!!!​

Good for you for refusing the prednisone, fuck steriods! What is it that you were diagnosed with, somehow I missed that?!?!

I'm sure your body will be back to near-normal by Halloween!
STAY WELL!:hug2:
 
:D Thanks honey. It's good to be back.
I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis when I was 16. I was quite sick at the time, but I'm one of the fortunate few who hasn't encountered a whole lot of problems since then. Once I was put on meds, things cleared up very quickly. Then I had one big flare-up when I was 17 and a couple of VERY minor ones and now this big one. Overall, I'm very lucky and healthy!
 
Hey everybody! All is well here. I had another bout of sickness, but I'm recovering quickly! Since I missed so much school, I've gotten way behind, so I've been up to my ears in school work. That's why I haven't been around at all. This month is CRAZY! Once October is over, my load gets a whole lot lighter and I'll be around lots. :) Just thought I'd check in quickly to let everyone know I'm feeling well and will be back in full force very soon. :hug2:
 
take care of yourself -we'll keep your seat warm for ya... hope you're feeling better soon and are learning lots and lots :) but having some fun too
 
daiseeangel said:
I hope all is well, and I can't wait to see you back around here!

PS - I'm baaaaack! :D
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Oh my God! YOU'RE BACK! Yay!!!!!!!!! I missed you. Welcome back, babe.

And here I am as well, breathing a big sigh of relief. Or almost. The semester is almost over. Most of my major work is done. I've just managed to get back on top of things. I went through another major bout of illness a few days after my last post that lasted for quite a while. I just started to really recover last week. I'm feeling fine now. :) Just got in from a nice relaxing walk.
As you can imagine, weight loss has been the last thing on my mind recently, since I've actually been struggling to keep weight on! I did drop quite a bit, but I've come back up. I won the battle and am currently sitting at 148.2. :) I'm sorry that I haven't been around, but I'll be honest and say that it would have been too hard for me to be here. It was not a good time for me to surround myself with discussion of weight loss and exercise. I hope you all understand that. Believe me that I wanted to come on here many times. But while I was sick, I often felt like maybe my weight loss efforts were foolish and vain, since all of a sudden I would have given anything to be able to appreciate food and put on a few pounds. I just felt like crap overall and felt like losing weight had nothing to do with how good I felt about myself because I felt better being well at 170 than I did being sick at 140.
Anyway, I now feel fantastic about myself once again and am praying to any entity that will hear me that I can at least make it past Christmas without getting sick again! And you should all join me in doing that, so that you don't ever have to go without me again. :p
 
I completely understand. My boyfriend has ulcerative colitis, and he is dealing with a flare up as we speak. It's been about a week, and it is not fun for him at all. So I totally understand your need to be away to take care of yourself!

BUT -- I AM SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU BACK!!! :D :D
 
I will join in praying to any entity that will hear,

because I'm very glad to see you back too! :D

Stay well!!
 
sunnydee said:
I'm sorry that I haven't been around, but I'll be honest and say that it would have been too hard for me to be here. It was not a good time for me to surround myself with discussion of weight loss and exercise. I hope you all understand that.
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We understand that. It's clear as an azure sky of deepest summer :) I hope you wrap up your semester well and we love having you here :hug2:
 
Glad so many of you have got my back :) But as for taking it easy, that's pretty much impossible right now. I'll be done on Dec 8, though! Yay! Next semester should be a lot easier because it's almost entirely clinical stuff. I only have one "book course" and it's online. On Thursday morning I will sit in my very last nursing class! Crazy...
The only shitty thing about next term is that I have a 4 week rural placement, which I will be doing in the town my parents currently live in. I'm not complaining about having to live with Mom & Dad for a month. I actually think that will be a nice relaxing change. But I don't know anybody there and I'm going to be ridiculously bored! Maybe you guys will be seeing a LOT of me in January. :p
 
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