SAINTS

nina has made a full and miraculous recovery…this morning at the vets she horked up a peach pit and started yabbering for food. nina is now banned from the back yard for the rest of her life since she is apparently stuffing herself with last years fallen peach pits…dork.

the vet just stopped by to look at spritely’s leg…he is happy…it looks way better…miracles continue to fly around here today.

boo’s vomittimg has apparently stopped but tony is quite sore late this afternoon…i am guessing he was chasing kiwi around in the field again today cuz he is a stupid, old, crippled goof.

and yes i went to the clinic and yes i have a secondary sinus and chest infection and yes i still feel like crap. but i have antibiotics and i am not supposed to return to work until may 11th (good luck) and the blood from my ear was from inflamed tissues not from a perforated eardrum…so the dogs are off the hook for trying to make me deaf.

and again thank you all for the b’day wishes…my b’day is actually tomorrow. on the day i was born, the panicked cry was heard around the block…MAY DAY! MAY DAY! trouble just hit our world!

i am thinking there is no freaking way i am going to be ready to be around patients by saturday (my first day back to work after a truly rotten holiday)…if any of them get what i still have..well.. it could be really bad. so to give work enough notice to cover me, i better toddle on off to the clinic and collect up a doctors note that says i am still contagious and should stay home for a couple of more days. i think it looks suspicious to be calling in sick at the end of one’s holidays….like you are just having so much freaking fun, you can’t get your ass back to work….i wish.

but the good news is…since i had such a rotten sleep and since both renee and angelina are good to handle whatever here..i am going to take a full bed sick day…after i get home from the clinic.
boo is puking out her gutz this morning…i think i am counting number 5 or 6 vomit now…bad timing boo..please stop puking, there are enough of us on the sick list right now.

i will tell you tho that this morning my almost, but not quite, endless animal patience is wearing pretty freaking thin…i am already annoyed at their bloody need to react in a barking frenzy to any and everything….i think i will lay in bed with a full squirt bottle and just spray every single moron who thinks anything at all is the least bit exciting…. right in the freaking loud and chaos producing head…..at least that is my current plan…i may be really mean and lock the little most reactive twits right out of my room. that oughtta upset the little bastards as much as their stupid noise is upsetting me today.

ok…pissy mood carol is going to clean up and go see some stranger doctor and see what wisdom he/she has to share…i am thinking i will get the “drink plenty of fluids, get some rest because….ta-da….miracle diagnosis….you have the freaking flu.”

don’t even get me started on that wasted, useless flu shot i get every single freaking year.

if pete knocks grammy off her feet one more time, i am going to……….do something. not sure what cuz i couldn’t think of a scary enough threat but i told him to watch out cuz when i am feeling better, i will think of something really mean!

niko played hard to get tonight to trick into the house…every night it is the very same thing…”look niko, cannned food!!!” he stands in the doorway and bitches and complains but pretty soon he just can’t resist and then slam..i close the door behind him. tonight took a bit longer and i actually had to hand feed him some before he would fall for the trick…save me from stubborn, pig headed northern breeds who don’t like to give in without a good fight.

can someone cat-less.. (or at least without a scrappin’ cat, he’s ok with ones who ignore him)….PLEASE give marty a really great home?…i feel so sorry for him stuck over in a medical room pen, day after day after day.

tiko and tasha have been moved over to the house…they are NOT supremely happy…they are currently shut in a back room with bitsy and sadie cuz neither of those ones will bother them at all.

spot looks sore again tonight.

spritely looks marginally better.

gilbert is lonely again cuz i haven’t spent much time with him in the past couple of days.

we had some nice visitors today who travelled over from the island just to visit saints…so while pete is on my shit list, he was on their favorite list which just goes to show you that you really don’t know someone until you have to live with them.

i didn’t take suzie to the vet cuz if that dog is dying, it is from gluttony….she has had her face stuck in some kind of food bowl every time i turned around today.

nina is still at the vets on IV fluids and antibiotics…her mouth is infected again despite her recent dental but colleen does not think that is the real issue here. they drew some blood and we will have to wait for the results but nina is really very ill and she crashed within hours last night soooo…maybe addisons disease?

tony the doorknob bit me in the arm today cuz we were both in a bad mood. i was sick and trying to mop around the food bowl and he was hungry and trying to eat so when i pulled him by the collar out of my way, he bit me in the arm…i deserved it but he should have been more forgiving.

jesse jumped niko again today…my fault, i stupidly let the dogs in thru niko’s yard…i had jess off in a second cuz i realized right away i made a big mistake and shoved jess back into his own yard. but…he is a doorknob too for being such an absolute jerk where niko is concerned.

IF i am not feeling better tomorrow when i get up…i will go to the clinic…hopefully i won’t have to cuz there are other things i would rather do.

she kept me awake most of the night, trembling and parking herself shoved right up to my face so i would notice that she felt crappy too.

but neither nina nor suzie are telling me where they feel sick…no vomitting, no diarrhea, no coughing or gurgling respirations, no obvious pain anywhere…just a generalized feeling that we are sick too.

hmmm…i wish i was more alert right now..it is going to suck taking them into the vet without a single actual clue.

unless you hang out at saints, you might not get the signifiance of this. but i just noticed, she seemed a bit quiet,,,so i offered her a peak frean cookie…no interest..next i tried one of KO’s mom’s homemade buns (nina LOVES bread)…no interest again…so i pulled out some of the turkey that KO sent home with me the other night..nina is not eating turkey either.

nina not going bezerke over even the remote possibility of some kind of food is a very serious thing….she seems otherwise comfortable and totally relaxed (but the second the fridge opens she should be barking her head off and trying to remove your fingers from your hand)

geez nina, you’ve got me really worried now.

i think my flu sucks more. i feel worse today than i have on any other day and that is saying alot.

but…life goes on, barely…i am pretending to be alive right now and not fooling anybody…except maybe the animals because THEY DON”T CARE!

the vet came out to see spritely..her leg is bad. last time it was bad was jan 25th so she has done pretty well. we just decided to do what we did last time which worked for quite awhile…so spritely…please get better really quick cuz i feel like crap right now.

the bastard barn guys broke thru the gate again and got into the barn…you try to remove a 1000 pound cow from a 5 foot wide feed room when you are sick…it doesn’t work really well. anyway, cathy was here so we did manage to entice him out with some grain but the dogs were under foot cuz i was taking them for a walk at the time and it was stressful cuz those dogs are idiots around 1000 pound feet.

i get focused on things when i am sick…i absolutely had to do 3 things today…pay the vet bills, fertilize the dog yards and get butch some more toys because al and joey are stealing his. the vet bills were way higher than i thought…i must have stopped counting a few weeks ago…i paid off today $12,500 and we still owe another $9000…ouch. i am so glad the plant sale is going really well and that i bought 2 hanging baskets myself! (lana, the money is my car for the SGA’s (saints guardian angels) hopefully by mid may when the plant sale is over we pay off another big chunk of the bills.

i got half the fertilizing done before i crapped out.

the toy run is another thing altogether…little butch the miracle boston with the magic shrinking tumour…LOVES the purple, squeaky dinosaur toy and so does al, joey and angel…everyone keeps stealing the favorite toy from a dying (but not dead yet) boston. today when the vet was trying to listen to spritely’s heart…al is squeaking that thing out in the field and tossing it all over the place.

“al…that is butch’s toy and what is it doing out here in the field???”

bloody thief.

so back down to the pet store go tammy and i to purchase more dinosaur toys to go around….we bought one in every color. and just so you don’t feel sorry for me because i couldn’t put more down on the vet bills…i spent 30 freaking dollars on toys for those dogs….and damaged myself too while i was at it.

tammy warned me that all those dogs sqeaking all those high pitched squeaky toys was going to be a problem, like interfere with my sleep…

well…. who’d have thought it would perforate my ear drum…i didn’t til i felt the blood dripping out of one ear….don’t you think that is really weird? my ears were plugged but they didn’t hurt like they were ready to tear.

anyway, now maybe those bastard bedroom dogs have made me deaf in one ear…i will let you know when my head unplugs, if i can still hear.

the leg split open again on the weekend…we have been hosing and spraying it with iodine. tonight she is eating her hay but won’t eat her mash (which has her meds in it like it always does)..i have soaked it in hot molassass and chopped up her apples to mix in but she is being stubborn cuz her leg hurts and it is really swollen so she is not eating that stuff. i hosed her down again, hoping to freeze it a bit so she will eat her dinner but no way. i will give her an hour and then scoop it all out and use a syringe to get those meds that she needs down her throat. the leg smells bad tonight. i will get the vets out tomorrow but tonight i think i will give her an antibiotic injection to get her started again.

she has been so good for quite awhile now, i forget how scary it is when that leg starts to go bad.

i love you spritely..please not yet…not yet.

9 pm update…spritely ate HALF of her dinner…just enough to totally mess me up so now i don’t know how much of her meds she actually got…there were big doses in there so now i don’t dare to try to shove more down her throat cuz i don’t know how much she actually got of what was in there.

way to go spritely…lets just stress me out with even more uncertainty on this latest roller coaster ride….you better have gotten enough to feel better by morning!

i don’t even know where the whole day went and i didn’t get much of anything accomplished today. i got up, took the dogs for a run, went to grab my breakfast and stopped at the post office for a package for saints. then i came home, we consulted over the rabbit wars, went back out and had to go to three different places to get the right sized xpen, the clips and a pylon (for the manure pile…we want to dump in certain areas.)…came home, set up the rabbit border…loridawn came so  then we did some vet stuff.

the FELV’s look really good, the virus in there is almost completely gone…just louise with a tiny bit of sniffles and miranda with a weepy eye…another bit of meds for them and mosley had his mouth checked…still a bit red so some more meds for him too…then the house cats…harrison is quite ill right now so he is on meds and eddy and boo need another depo injection for their sore mouths too. apollo is starting back on a very low dose of insulin…2 u twice a day. les is looking good…butch is looking amazing…the vet said he doesn’t even look like the same dog that she saw on friday.  tammy and i bought him some new toys today. he LOVES the purple squeaky dinosaur and eddy already tore apart the softy/stuffy ball he liked alot too.

by early afternoon, i was again feeling like utter crap so we went out to the ABC and i stuffed my congested head and chest with a milkshake and a peach cobbler and made myself feel even  worse. is it feed a cold and starve a fever or the other way around???? we stopped at the vets on the way home and paid part of the bill (there is only enough for each vet clinic to have $2500) and picked up the new meds and then i came home and totally crashed yet again.

and really what did i do today????….sweet bugger all….oh well… still barn bedtime, diabetics and my laundry..maybe tomorrow i will feel more like myself again.

she is standing behind me on the computer chair, staring at the door, whining and occasionally licking my nose cuz she wants everyone to get here so the excitement of the day can begin.

i, on the other hand, would like to just sit in this chair, in the peace and quiet and never have the day start at all…time freeze.

it reminds me of the movie click….unlike that guy who was into fast forward…i would just freeze frame the quiet moments and make them last as long as i can.

i did finally sleep, and i slept in til almost 8…the mess wasn’t too bad so that was ok.

i feel a bit better, i think i am on the mend…the volunteers took good care of me yesterday, besides doing all of the work, and then feeding me an amazing dinner…helga brought me soup and orange juice and cold fx and brenda brought me lunch and made me drink the orange juice while shoving fx pills down my throat. i swear to god, we would be so screwed around here if it wasn’t for the great folks who take care of us all.

so today on the menu is fertilizing the upper yards (the big pasture has to wait a few weeks til we move the farm animals off) and doing something about the bunny wars…i guess we will need to put in a new cease fire bunny border….they are such vicious fighters.

who’d have thought that rabbit blending was 10 times harder than it is with any other species…they look so sweet and innocent but those little buggers are territorial fiends.

when i was a kid, i used to watch “i dream of jeannie” and “bewitched”  every single day…i so wanted to be able to wrinkle my nose or blink my eyes and make everything happen so fast. for some reason today i am thinking of this again and wishing i could just do the quick thing with my nose and make everything clean and tidy, make the money pour in, make the animals safe and happy and quiet and then just go back to bed and enjoy it all being done right.