SAINTS

so i got to skip that whole next stage, light fiber glass cast thing cuz my swelling was down (i am such a good patient!)…they took out half my sutures (i am not going back next week for the rest, i will take the remainders out myself) and went straight into the air boot. it stays on for another month (no weight bearing, sigh) and then i can take it off to do ROM excercises a couple of times a day. so this is good.

my daughter took me to look at mobility machines, i want “The Mule 610!!!!” OMG, we can haul hay and feed and water when it is frozen (or we run out), we could move the fallen wounded (if someone were to fall wounded, while down in the lower pasture (human or animal) and we could give full mobile tours to disabled people just like me…… it is a 4×4 so we can move around in the snow or in the mud, we can haul up to a 1000 pound trailer. we can fill up the box with manure and tilt it with a push of a button to any manure pile we wanted to create in any far corner of our little world. AND it has a roll bar so i can’t break my neck too! what a great machine, i drove it today around the parking lot and am in love. sadly, it costs $9000 so maybe i should love something a little bit cheaper instead.

Trev is home from the vets, he is at one end of the couch sleeping with a pillow and maudie is at the other end of the couch with my other pillow and they both look pretty freaking comfortable if you ask me. maudie had a complete cow when i got home tonight, apparently, i am NOT allowed to leave here anymore or ever again.

miss mable may is having an overnight at the vets while they wait for her bloodwork to come back, they are quite concerned at the amount of bleeding she is having from her urethra. and dex goes into the vet tomorrow for his “look and see”, i am not sure what i am hoping for but i am hoping it is the lesser of 2 evils whatever that may be.

spritely’s leg is getting bad again so i drove over to the barn and jean held her while i bathed her hock in an iodine solution and we upped her meds just for tonight. please spritely, don’t let it get too bad, and stop running you goof!

AND…i drove my van today! yahoo, i am no longer a complete captive to the house.

 

deb…i think carl suffers from post traumatic syndrome, he has occasional bad, scary days…not your fault, just bad luck on your day. but hey, tunie fish likes you now!

michael is STUPID! 3:30 am he decides to crawl under the bed to steal the cats food. he gets stuck, half under the bed and half under my wheelchair. his freaking out and flailing flattened body is right where my foot needs to go so i can stand up, grab my chair and help him. sam and endora were screaming and whacking at his back end telling him to get the hell out of there! i was trying to reach over the side of the bed and pull him out without falling on top of him further injuring us both. oh! i could have strangled him, he just about killed us…anyway, i got him out, no worse for wear and he crab walked back off to bed to sulk. none of us were very happy with his late night adventure into gluttony, that was a stupid idea michael!

well, i guess i better go start the torturous chore of cleaning myself back up to normal before my doc sees me today. i am pretty sure i have kept my cast relatively clean but i can’t really see or get close enough to the bottom of it to smell it to make sure. sigh…i don’t want to gross her out or have her think that i am crazy. nothing is all that easy anymore…a shower, a lint brush, and a quick bottom of the shoes wash before i went out used to hide a great deal of my odd, animal infested life.

wish me luck and a lighter cast today!

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Carl was waiting by the barn doors when I arrived this morning, and came walking towards me as soon as I entered the pasture, then followed me right into the barn. 

He was a bit skittish about coming in any further than the donkeys’ stall, but eventually couldn’t resist his feed any longer and settled right down, even letting me brush past him to feed the sheep and Spritely.  In fact, when he was done, I had trouble getting him OUT of the barn – I think he has his days and nights confused!

Carol, I did add some alfalfa pellets to his grain this morning as he missed dinner last night.

Spritely did not eat all her breakfast and was very slow moving this morning – she isn’t holding her bad leg up but it is not looking good and she is walking on the toe of it and dragging it.  I will check it right after work (or as soon as I can get home) today and call you if it has not settled back down with exercise.

 Oh, and Edna has taken up with that little black and white rooster (is that Jerome?) (I think it’s a rooster – what do I know about chickens?:) )  .  They were strutting around side by side this morning – cute!