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Happy Mio Monday everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
13/2 2023
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Good goat times today. In fact, great goat times. It felt like old (goat) times. I can use my arm enough that it almost felt like things were back to normal. And as you can tell by the photographic evidence attached to this post, I brought my camera today. Taking new goat photos and vids for the first time in 3 weeks. Wow, it’s been a while.
I had to be careful with my arm of course, but I was able to do have a good time. Handing out treats, walking around with the goats. They did some headbutting and running. And we had human visitors in the pen. It was all really good. Good to feel a bit of normalcy again. The thing that reminded me most that things aren’t back to normal were the walks there and back. Sleeping in my bed didn’t wreck my back completely, but it is stiff and hurting a bit. I can’t walk as fast and suredly as i usually can. But once I was with the goats it was all good. Didn’t hurt that it was an abolutely glorious sunny day. Felt like spring.
I hope I didn’t overdo it though. After a couple of hours with the goats I could feel the fatigue starting to set in and my arm getting sore. And when I got home I had to pop some painkillers ahead of schedule. And now my arm is kind of hurting a bit. I’m definitely going to take a couple of days of rest now, and then it’s time for the next appointment at the physical therapist. And then we’ll see how it goes. But it was really good to have some happy gaot time. Now I’m going to put on some soup leftovers and just relax.
13/2 2023
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We had a big goat circus today with all three of them knocking heads. I was happy to see Mia get into it. I’m not sure she’s walking 100% right yet, but she seems to be doing a lot better and I don’t think she’s limping. In the morning she came to the fence with the others right away, and ran with the littles when we went down into the big pen and then she went into it with the headbutting. Compared to previously when she’d typically hang back and wait for me to come to her or just watch the kids run around. So hopefully that means she’s doing well.
13/2 2023
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Are you a human being or are you a human doing?
I’m a human pudding.
13/2 2023
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HappY Yogi daY everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
14/2 2023
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It’s soup o’clock. If this belly is a flopping don’t come a knocking.
14/2 2023
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Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. I lub you.
14/2 2023
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Happy Hump Day everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
15/2 2023
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Well, bad news today. I was supposed to have my physical therapy. But the physio called me in the morning and said he had to cancel due to a family emergency. Apparently their little girl had had an accident. I hope it’s nothing too serious.
But no physio for me today. He couldn’t pass me over to another therapist because we were planning to maybe do some ultrasound scanning and the others can’t work the scanner.
Oh well. So it goes. It’s not too bad. I am feeling more and more myself. I don’t have complete range of motion with my arm, but it’s fairly good now. And moving it mostly doesn’t cause much. I can do most of the things I used to, even if it takes some more effort. There is still pain. The painkillers help, during the day it’s not too bad. The worst thing is at night. But I’m doing okay sleeping in my chair for now.
I have felt my pain level rise a bit after the goat tripping. I think I overdid it a little bit, I shouldn’t have used my arm so much. But all in all it’s not so bad. I’m going to take some days to relax and hope the improvements continue.
And hopefully I won’t have to wait too long for a new appointment, he said he’d have their secretary call me on Monday to make a new appointment. Even though I’m doing better and better I really would like to maybe find out exactly what’s wrong, what’s causing the pain and… hey.. get rid of the pain. That’d be nice. I haven’t been at pain level zero for almost 3 weeks now and it is tiring.
But I’m thankful for the progress. Many people have it much worse.
15/2 2023
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One thing about sleeping in my chair is, it’s so easy to take a nap. Which isn’t always good. I was tired earlier so I slumped back and napped, and ended up sleeping on and off for 3-4-5 hours. Now it’s 3 am and I ought to be sleeping, but I’m not tired. Oh well, my sleeping rythms have always been weird. Staying in bed for 20 hours and then staying up for two days. It’s nice to have the freedom to do what you want, but it’s probably healthier to have a fixed schedule… oh well. I’m planning on trying to sleep in my bed again in the weekend. We’ll see how that goes. Now I think I’ll go watch Glass Onion.
16/2 2023
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I hope today will be a good one. Here is Mads from 2005. He was the bandit of his time, but looks like not all kids were afraid of him.
16/2 2023
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Hey, do any of you have any good stretches or exercises to help with back pain? The best one I have is the one where you lie on your stomach and raise your upper body up first on your elbows and then all the way up on your arms. I haven’t really been able to do that much since using my arms like that hurts. But if you have any that you feel work well for you, feel free to drop them in the comments.
16/2 2023
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A little goat dance-off.
16/2 2023
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I hope today will be a good one. Here is Peanut from 2015.
17/2 2023
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Feeling kind of.. off. Weird. Somewhat dizzy and unbalanced. Floaty. My back was hurting a lot and I did some stretched and now I have managed to covince myself that I may have broken my spine.
Okay, I probably haven’t broken my spine.
I need proper sleep. Going to try sleeping in my bed again tomorrow. Although now that my back has been hurting more I’m worried that sleeping in my bed again will mess it up even more. But oh well. We’ll see. I am feeling pretty sad and tired, and dizzy as I said.
Put some drops in my ears to clean them, in case it’s an ear issue. It could also be aliens. I should probably check if there are any weird flying objects outside my window. You never know. There’s a lot of that going around.
17/2 2023
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Update: I think the dizziness and floatiness is gone, mostly. Maybe cleaning my ears actually did work. Or maybe the aliens re-attached my spine. Who knows, not me!
Feeling pretty sad and tired, and it’s storming outside. But other than that. One day a day.
17/2 2023
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Some goats just want to eat the whole world.
17/2 2023
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Happy Caturday everyone. I hope it’s a good one. Here’s Nala.
18/2 2023
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Well, the outmost board of the ancient bench finally gave up its struggle to stay alive. You can see it hanging down in the middle there. For years half of that board remained up and functional. The other half was broken, I believe, by grandma Mio’s heavy weight. The other half there was hanging on and staying intact. But while I was away with my bad arm, it gave in and gave up. And now the bench is somewhat narrower. But still big enough to hold my rear and a goat. So it’s not so bad.
18/2 2023
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Alritey then. I’m going to start shutting down the machines. Getting ready for bed. My actual bed. It’s been a week since the last time I slept in my bed. I am not too optimistic about it. I don’t know. My back isn’t doing great. My arm and shoulder feels the best it has since the accident. We’ll see if I’ll be able to sleep. We’ll see if I’ll wake up with a completely messed up back. Tune in tomorrow to get the resoltution ito this exciting cliffhanger. I’ll settel for “it was all a dream”.
18/2 2023
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Happy Funday everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
19/2 2023
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So, how did my bedtime go? Well, I got the best night’s sleep since the accident, so that’s good. I took my painkillers and wrapped my arm tightly in a blanket and was able to find a position that allowed me to sleep without pain really. I have never been good at sleeping straight through for 8 hours or whatever you need, I always drift in and out of sleep it seems. And I did last night too. But I got a night of sleep that was close to what I would have gotten before the accident. So that was really nice.
The downside is I woke up with a stiff and hurting back. Not completely wrecked, but not good. I’ll try to do exercises and stretch and talk ot the physical therapist, when I get a new appointment.
I will probably sleep in my chair some more, but I think I can mix it up a little more now and get some sleep in the bed. It was nice to have some good sleep and dreams.
19/2 2023
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Here is Milo on his rock post. It’s funny how he’ll just go there and stand with his front feetsies on the rock and look over at the human buildings.
And if you’re in need sof some extra Funday fun, there’s a lovely video up on Mia’s page of Palle and Peanut playing.
https://www.facebook.com/CutestGoatEver/posts/pfbid02Pe8rqZ6HY87ssjAZQUuy7eTxip5284tMWy29GizyXno748MBLYTuQ8YHBJsgUGu9l
19/2 2023
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That’s all for now.