Mandelgave
Happy Mio Monday everyone. Hope it’s a good one.
Well, I’m not heading out today. I feel like I’ve gotten a little worse. The hurt in my throat is not cleared as easily just by clearing my throat anymore. And I feel like my nose is getting a little stuffy. I probably have a cold. Or a mild flu. Can’t rule out covid of course, but generally I’m still feeling fine enough. But I’m gonna go to bed early today and see how it is tomorrow. Whatever it is, the only way out is through.
5/9 2022
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Well hello there. I think I have tonisilitis. That is my expert medical opinion, after consulting with google, the infallible source of information you can trust.
I’m not feeling too horrible, but not good either. Definitely something with my throat.
After I went to bed yesterday it went from a slight throat ache that went away when I cleared my throat to a really bad throat ache that would not go away and that made it unbearable to swallow. Eventually I had a little coughing fit. You know when you have a throat infection or whatever, it feels like you have gunk attached to your throat and eventually it comes loose and you cough it up. Well I felt like I was trying to cough something up and out, but it wouldn’t give. It was like I was trying to cough up the back of my throat itself. And it felt a bit like rubbery balls or something. Who wants balls in their mouth, not me. I assume it’s my tonsils. Well, I got up and drank some chamomile tea and that along with the coughing helped the pain. And then I spent the day and night in bed, sleeping on and off and coughing and swallowing and it wasn’t super fun but not completely horrible.
Now I’m up. Not really much change. I ated some iced creams. Feels like it helps, but maybe that’ just because I like iced creams. I still kinda feel like if I ‘pull’ up in my throat, like my tonsils are trying to come up and out. Weird feeling. And the throat pain isn’t too bad when I clear my throat and snort and cough and drink and stuff. Feel a little woozy maybe. No fever.
So, according to doctor google it will probably pass in 3-4 days. If it doesn’t show signs up improving after that then maybe seek medical attention after a week or so. Eh, I know smarter people would go straight to the doctor, but I’m not smarter people am I now. I’d rather avoid the doctor at all costs. So as long as it’s not getting worse I guess it’s just a matter of taking some days to rest. I really want to see the goats and find out if there are news about the newbs and about the bench being moved and if everyone is ok and agh, well I better try and stay inside. Hopefully they are all okay and hopefully I will be too.
I’ve been coughing, wich should mean it’s viral, not bacterial. So that’s good I guess. I took some painkillers which the doctor google said might help. Honestly not feeling too bad right now. Hopefully it will pass quickly.
6/9 2022
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How am I doing
My throat feels a lot better. I don’t know if it was the iced creams or the painkillers that helped, or maybe I’m just getting better already. Who knows. Right now I’m just tired and feel like I have a bit of a cold. Nnot too bad.
Hope the goats are okay. it’s the first time since the move that i haven’t been there Monday and Tuesday. I probably shouldn’t head out tomorrow already, but we’ll see how I feel.
6/9 2022
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Don’t want to cheat you out of some Yogi love. HappY Yogi daY everyone.
6/9 2022
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Happy Hump Day everyone.
How am I doing? Well, my throat isn’t hurting much anymore. But i feel like if I don’t clear it or eat or drink it might start hurting again a bit. Hurting less, but coughing a lot now. A little bit runny nose. And now I feel my tonsils again. But I feel like they’re there at the back of my throat. Enlarged maybe. I think I will apply some iced creams. If it wasn’t for the coughing I’d be feeling pretty okay, just tired. But I stayed up all night so it’s my bedtime soon.
7/9 2022
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Okay, I’m turning off the machines for today. Being that I’m sick I probably should try to keep a more sane regular sleep pattern, instead of the wacky… sleep for 20 hours, stay up for 24, sleep for 20 that I sometimes do… but hey ho, what can yo doe. I’m going to sleep for a long time now and hope I won’t feel too bad when I dig myself out of the hollow next time. Feeling fairly ok right now, but there’s definitely still something in my throat. Maybe a frog, who knows. As long as I don’t croak. Well, at least my sense of humour hasn’t improved, that must be a good sign.
See you all when we get there.
7/9 2022
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Well hello there, again.
How am I doing? Not too bad. But not great. My throat doesn’t really hurt, but I can feel there’s still something trying to build up. Mainly I have been coughing a lot. And gotten to the point where all the coughing has made the muscles sore, which is always annoying. But it’s not too bad. I’m tired, maybe slight head ache. But I feel like I’ve gotten better. It’s progressing. Mainly just tired and coughing. Unfortunately the Danish weather has take na turn for the worse. Summer is over now. Cold and rainy. If we were in for a warm sunny day tomorrow I might have gone out for a quick roundtrip. But I guess going out and getting cold and soaked would be a bad idea. So I think I will have to wait until next week. I feel bad about skipping a whole week, but it’s probably best. Not the best of timing, i’m worried about what’s happening to the newbs. Now that their case has been handed over to the animal protection agency thing, I don’t know how involved I’ll be. I don’t know if they will contact me when and if they find a new home, if I will be part of the transfer or if I’ll just show up one day and they’ll be gone. I guess I’ll have to see.
For now just resting, and alternating between hot tea and iced creams. Hopefully I’ll be good to go next week.
8/9 2022
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Well, that’s a new one. My dad was nice enough to go get meds for me, not related to my current situation but the meds I take in general. And there’s one of the diabetes meds that I take that is ..not available. The supply crisis, I guess. I didn’t even know that was .. possible. I see a lot of empty shelves in the supermarket I frequent, but that I’m not able to get meds I need. That seems .. dangerous. But ok. i guess we’ll see what my doc says. I take a variety of meds for diabetes and related issues. I got about a week’s supply left of it at home and apparently I won’t be able to get more ‘in the foreseeable future’. Maybe I’ll have to start taking the new meds that I had been avoiding because I managed to get my blood sugar down by lifestylte changes. Maybe I’ll need to start having the weekly injection thing instead. Ugh. Well we’ll see.
I am also not looking forward to next month when I have to pay my yearly electricity and heating bill. I’ve just been ducking my head in the sand and hoping it won’t be too bad, but from what everyone is saying it might end up being really bad. I am worried. About everything.
This may be controversial, but are we sure we can’t just let Russia have Ukraine so we can all get back to normal? I’m just saying, we all know the real enemy is democratic socialism, not communism. So let’s all just go red wo we can keep the lights on.
Etc.
Stupid world. I wonder if humanity will ever really get its shirt together. I guess not. We are intent on hurting eachother and hurting the world and no one is willing to back down or rethink things if it means losing a tiny bit of their own ground and privilige. Ok I’ll shut up. Maybe I’ll go cough in some faces. Sigh.
8/9 2022
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Here is a little goat content from last week to keep up going. I do hope we will still get some blue skies days, the forecast doesn’t look too good now.
8/9 2022
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Condolences to her family,
with the hopes that humanity can some day find a future without inequality, class difference, war and oppression. We are all born innocent, and then we are taught the reasons to hate and fear. Kneel for the crown, kneel for the bible, kneel for the coins.
Let the castles house the refugees, let Mario wear wear his own princess gown.
No disrespect. Well, just a little. But 96 is a good run. We’ll all be the same in the end.
8/9 2022
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Better have some goat content on top of the page.
I’m still coughing quite a lot, but other than that not feeling too bad. If it wasn’t for the forecast of heavy rain tomorrow I’d probably be heading out to get a little goat time. But I’ll be patient. Patient Zero, amirite
8/9 2022
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For super extra healing powers, here are the two fat ladies, the happiest goat on Earth and beyond, and the love of my life.
See you all tomorrow, hopefully I’ll be almost close to back to somewhat normal, hooves crossed.
9/9 2022
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Happy Caturday, with bonus grandma. Hope it will be a good one.
How am I doing? Well when I went to bed last night I thought I was doing a lot better, but then I immediately had a big coughing attack. Coughing on and off through the night. But I still feel like I’m getting better. Went through substantially fewer tissues than the night before, and the coughing doesn’t seem as bad now. Other than the coughing I’m feeling fairly ok. I’ll rest through the weekend and hopefully that’lld do it.
Oh and my dad managed to score some of the diabetes meds we couldn’t get. Possibly the last pack in all of Denmark. So now I have the meds I need for the next 5 weeks. We’ll see what the doc says going forward. Maybe we can hope they start getting new supplies. Otherwise we have some time to come up with alternatives now.
10/9 2022
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a goatlog, as they were settling in nicely. Hopefully they have done okay this week.
10/9 2022
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Well, I feel like I’m actually getting better now. I have barely coughed the last few hours. Guess I shouldn’t jinx it though, it could still come back. But I’m cautiously optimistic that I’m close to being back to almost normal, hooves crossed.
10/9 2022
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“Your page is now eligible to send Local Alerts to people in your area.”
ooh, kay. Thanks, Facebook. I better not tell Mia, she’ll start sending out alerts like “OUT OF PASTA, SEND HELP”. Or “Haven’t seen my manservant in a week, send pasta”.
10/9 2022
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I have spent some of my sicktime catching up on TV. Watched the first 3 episodes of the new Lord Of The Rings show. And somewhat surprisingly I quite like it. I feel like there was such a bad buzz around it. But I don’t know, so far it works for me. You can tell they threw a lot of money at it. I like that it sometimes has a slow pace and you get to see the nature and landscapes. Although i have a hard time reading the text on the maps.
It’s a litlte depressing when you start trying to read what people are saying online though. It reminds me so much of when Disney acquired Star Wars.
“There were no black elves!” = “There were no black stormtroopers!”
“Galadriel is a Mary Sue!” = “Rey is a Mary Sue!”
“Why do we have to have all this diversity forced upon us!” + “Why do we have to have all these strong female leads!”
Fandoms are the worst sometimes. I get so sick and tired of all this pro/anti woke, pro/anti diversity talk. It’s fair if you think it’s bad, but I refuse to believe anyone could rate this a 1 or 0 on a scale of 10 unless you’re doing it out because of a political agenda. Even if you don’t like it, it’s not that forking bad.
I do understand some people are very invested in Tolkien and his creation. I remember Peter Jackson’s movies were generally very well received but that also got critics becuse it didn’t follow the books completely accurately. And yeah, there probably weren’t black elves in Tolkien’s stories. But this is an adaptation of works that Tolkien was still working on. If he’d still been alive today working on it who knows where it would have gone in time. Middle-Earth is supposed to be Earth sometime in past legend, there would have been black people there yknow.
Anyway. I’m not a super fan of Galadriel in this, a little too actionheroey at times, but it’s not so bad it really bothers. I love the harfoots. I’d like to think i’m a hobbit by spirit. I don’t have the looks to be an elf, so let me a hobbit. I know they like berries, and I’m sure they’d love goat berries too.
It’s a thumbs up from me. If you’re on the fence about it because of all the negative buzz, give it a chance. And don’t skip second breakfast or elevensies.
10/9 2022
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Happy Funday everyone. Hope it’s a good one.
I’m still not 100% back to normal, but feeling pretty fine.
11/9 2022
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Starting to shut down for today. Feeling fairly fine, but still a bit of a scratch in my throat that brings back the coughing every now and then. I’m about ready to go some goating soon, though. Miss the gang. I can’t remember the last time I went a whole week without seeing them. I don’t like it. let’s hope next week will be better.
11/9 2022
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That’s all for now.