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the 500+ hours Crohns stole from me...
While recently in the midst of one of my bouts in the bathroom I was wondering to myself in anger how much time I've spent due to abnormal bathroom habits, in the bathroom/cleaning up from the bathroom since diagnosis 18 months ago. Well, I averaged it to be closest to an hour/day to be fair, since during remission for 4.5 months I went only once a day on average (maybe 8 minutes) and some days as many as 18 or 20 times (maybe 10 minutes a piece) in the last two winters...making up to 3 hours/day on the pot for months at a time...all in all I figure it's gotta be a minimum of 1 hour a day average over those 18 months....thus calculating out to nearly 550 days, an hour a piece....makes well over 500 hours on the toilet...and that's generous, it's probably much more....and that's above and beyond all the treatment and time spent due to the disease elsewhere (like the 30 minutes per night I spent awake for 3 or 4 months total for enemas so they'd stay in on my left side).
Do you realize what I could have accomplished with 500 hours of free time in the last 18 months? Thank you Crohns demon, thank you for leeching my life away in the most inconvenient times especially, like during Christmas morning, during a movies I paid $7 to see-TWICE in one film, during restaurant outings with friends, during thanksgiving diner, during gatherings with my gf's family, during car rides where I'm NOT the one driving, during my sleep-sometimes 6 times a night, during work when I'm on the phone with a client, during a team meeting at work when my boss is going over new program updates, while spending quality time with my gf, and while visiting the Crohns forum itself....
Thanks a bunch, Crohns, you're just a bunch of shit aren't you.
Anyone else feel robbed of life?
(okay, my self pity has lapsed, you can stop shaking your heads)
While recently in the midst of one of my bouts in the bathroom I was wondering to myself in anger how much time I've spent due to abnormal bathroom habits, in the bathroom/cleaning up from the bathroom since diagnosis 18 months ago. Well, I averaged it to be closest to an hour/day to be fair, since during remission for 4.5 months I went only once a day on average (maybe 8 minutes) and some days as many as 18 or 20 times (maybe 10 minutes a piece) in the last two winters...making up to 3 hours/day on the pot for months at a time...all in all I figure it's gotta be a minimum of 1 hour a day average over those 18 months....thus calculating out to nearly 550 days, an hour a piece....makes well over 500 hours on the toilet...and that's generous, it's probably much more....and that's above and beyond all the treatment and time spent due to the disease elsewhere (like the 30 minutes per night I spent awake for 3 or 4 months total for enemas so they'd stay in on my left side).
Do you realize what I could have accomplished with 500 hours of free time in the last 18 months? Thank you Crohns demon, thank you for leeching my life away in the most inconvenient times especially, like during Christmas morning, during a movies I paid $7 to see-TWICE in one film, during restaurant outings with friends, during thanksgiving diner, during gatherings with my gf's family, during car rides where I'm NOT the one driving, during my sleep-sometimes 6 times a night, during work when I'm on the phone with a client, during a team meeting at work when my boss is going over new program updates, while spending quality time with my gf, and while visiting the Crohns forum itself....
Thanks a bunch, Crohns, you're just a bunch of shit aren't you.
Anyone else feel robbed of life?
(okay, my self pity has lapsed, you can stop shaking your heads)
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i was nodding at your description of knowing all the local toilets - i think crohnies could rival the tourist information department when it comes to loo info!
