Does everyone know about Pandora? It's a website where you can create your own streaming radio station based on what you like with no commercials. It's awesome. Pandora.com...it's that easy.

Dammit...here comes the rain again. Can anyone do something about this?

Kathie is here, my friend from Chicago, I got a more comfortable appliance for my ileostomy, and it's supposed to mostly sunny and nice starting this afternoon. Who could ask for anything more ( Read more... )

I am so glad the sun came out today. It improved my mood by at least 200%. I rode my bike, very slowly, over to the Old Spokes Home and I got myself a basket set-up. It makes my bike so much heavier even with the baskets empty. Oh well, I'll just put it on when I need to transport stuff ( Read more... )

This a posting I made to my J-pouch support group yesterday.

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Lately, I've been feeling a bit depressed and worrying that I will never return to full health. I've also been struggling with body image issues. Every time I try to think about the future or intimacy with my wife I just start crying. I still need to have one more surgery and even when it is complete there are problems that can sometimes occur ( Read more... )

On my birthday and Mother's day, I often contemplate the beginnings of life. I think about the day my daughter was born, what the day of my birthday was like, the day before Mother's day, and things like that. This week I was helping at the PJC to get a fundraising mailing out and I learned that Mother's day was created by Julia Ward Howe in 1870 ( Read more... )

Today I posted this on MySpace as a bulliten after seeing the message about how we should all boycott Exxon/Mobil for a day and get 10 friends, who'll get 10 friends, who'll get 10 friends,etc, until we're 300 million strong, to do it ( Read more... )

On Friday, I found out that my blood count is quite low and that's why I have been lacking energy. Knowing that there is a reason for my shortness of breath when walking slowly and my inability to sustain any activity for very long is comforting. Until I found out about the blood count I felt that if I just pushed myself hard enough I would start ( Read more... )

I thought this posting by a friend of mine was quite intriguing. Everyone should check this 9/11 stuff out.
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I think alot of my discomfort and fatigue, as of late, was due to morphine withdrawal. Today I woke up feeling hungry but not shaky and exhausted as I have for the past few weeks. I even had the energy to cook myself some breakfast, 1 apple oatmeal pancake, 4 slices of bacon, coffee, and a glass of milk...I didn't cook the the milk. A much better ( Read more... )