TENSion
Happy Mio Monday everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
6/3 2023
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Good goat times today. Some ups and downs.
Firstly, Mia seems to be doing well. Unfortuantely I don’t have a medical backup for that. Jeanette was out sick the latter part of last week and when we talked this morning she basically didn’t know more about the situation than I did. So there’s no new info from the vet about the tests or anything.
But my feeling is that Mia is doing okay. When I was there Thursday I could tell she wasn’t herself. She didn’t come running to me, shied away from affection, didn’t want to eat every time she was offered something. And then there was the time when she was shivering and shaking.
Today, if you hadn’t told me she’d been sick, I wouldn’t have guessed. She seemed herself again. Eager for treats. Which made it ahrd for me to say no. They are still on a hay and water diet. When I didn’t hand out treats she’d several times jump up with her front legs on me, trying to get me to give her something. I have to admit, a couple of times I gave them a peanut each. I know I shouldn’t have. It’s just so darn hard saying no to them. And they all seemed to be doing fine, so hopefully it’s not problem.
But Mia was running around with us, we went up on the mountains, she was eager for treats and eating hay and out grabbing greens. Didn’t see her shivering or shaking either.
I am not completely sure if her poops were okay. I was doing my best Keiko impression, following Mia around watching for her tail to rise so I could check to see if she was pooping okay or still had diarrhea, as she apparently had last week. At one point she pooped and I think it looked solid but I wasn’t sure if it came out in clumps or proper Keiko approved berries. And yes. I got down on the ground to see if I could find the poops. Hey you gotta do what you gotta do. But I couldn’t find it. Blame the blindness I guess. I don’t have a Keiko sense.
Later I saw her tail going up and when I went over to her there were proper berries on the ground, so I hope she had deposited those.
My feling is that she’s okay. I can’t say I won’t worry, because of course you worry. But I am pretty confident it will be okay. I told Jeanette I’d appreciate if she texted me if they get some info from the vet.
Now, I consider that the ups. The downs? That was me, literally down on the ground. I fell. Again. Again i tripped over the old pile of hay in the goat pen. And this time it was pretty bad. Jeanette was going into the goat house and the goats started running to get back there and I followed and was more concerned about filming than being sensible. I forgot that when I look straight ahead I can’t see the ground ahead of me. The bottom part of my eye is blind. So, I didn’t see the pile of hay. And I fell flat. And this time it was worse than last time. For whatever reason I didn’t manage to get my hands out to stop the fall. Heck, maybe that was a good thing. Maybe I would have busted up my arm and shoulder even more if I’d fallen down on that. But, that meant I fell face first. Face straight into the ground, which was frozen solid. It was like getting hit in the head with a block of cement. I thought I might have gotten seriously hurt at first. I could feel my skull. I mean, I felt like my skull was broken or something. You’re not really supposed to be able to feel your skull. Try and see if you can right now? I don’t mean feel it with your hands. I mean, just feeling your skull .. being there. Hard to explain. But yeah, I felt like someone swung a shovel in my face or something. I lay there for a bit and then got up in sitting position. That’s when Jeanette came out of the goat house and saw me and sort of laughed and asked if the goats had left me behind. But then she realised I’d fallen and she came over and helped me up, and was very concerned and helpful as you’d expect from her. She offered to drive me home, but I just wanted to sit down and get my bearings back at that point. And at that point I hadn’t observed Mia pooping yet either, so I didn’t to go before I’d done that.
Well, I think I’m okay physically. Don’t think I have a concussion. Felt like I had a bloody nose, but I don’t think I really did. feels like I have slightly split lip. I am not sure about my back. It was pretty bad walking home, but it wasn’t great when I was walking out and I think just being out and about for hours made it worse. But I guess faceplanting on frozen ground might not have helped. Hopefully I didn’t mess myself up any worse. I really gotta be more careful.
Jeanette asked if I wanted her to move the little pile of hay out of the pen. Maybe it would have been smart, so I don’t keep falling over it. But. The goats like to jump up on it. I don’t want to take stuff away from the goats. So I think it stays for now. And I’ll try to watch where I’m going. Sheesh. Can I have morphine NOW?!
Just kidding. Mostly.
As long as Mia is ok, though. That’s our first priority.
6/3 2023
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I shouldn’t post this but.. hey, remember that video where I was running with Palle and I fell and broke a rib?
This is me falling today. You can just see Mia going over the little haypile and then CRASHBOOM. And the camera lying dead on the ground.
And the camera? Is done. Sigh. It’s bust. That sucks. I actually have several of this model, because it’s my favourite but it tends to stop focusing properly after a year or two.. so I have actually bought this model like.. 5 or 6 times over the years. Unfortunately it’s no longer in production, and the newer model doesn’t have the same colour settings that I love. So. I’m going to try my other ones and see if I can use them. Otherwise I’ll have to spend a boatload of money on a camera that doesn’t quite have the colour settings I want. Sigh. Well at least I survived getting my face dunked in frozen solid ground.
Yeah, you might want to skip this. it’s not very interesting anyway, you don’t hear me howl in pain or anything.
6/3 2023
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Well, I shall head to bed now. Hopefully I won’t be too wrecked tomorrow. I am starting to feel pretty sore in several places. Maybe i should check on ebay and see if I can get a replacement body. Maybe a fancy one with propellers and double exhaust pipes. I’ll need the extended warranty, naturally. Because you know it won’t be long before I’m tripping and falling. I blame gravity. Turn it down a notch.
7/3 2023
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HappY Yogi daY everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
7/3 2023
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How am I feeling today? Well my body is kind of sore. And so is my face, around the bridge of my nose and my forehead. But it’s not too bad really. My back is feeling pretty good, but that may just be because I’ve been sitting and doing nothing. Just taking it easy today. At least it doesn’t seem like getting hit in the face with the planet yesterday has made my ailments worse. Other than the soreness.
Other than that, no news. Parts of Denmark has been hit by a snowstorm. I am not sure what it’s like in my region, because I’m staying cocooned inside.
7/3 2023
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For the Keiko level subscribers, here is a very special video. Parental advisory may be.. advised.
7/3 2023
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I’m just going to be honest, I’m so lonely that my anaconda wants some no matter what you do or do not have.
7/3 2023
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Nothing to see here, just Milo on the mountain.
7/3 2023
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Happy Hump Day everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
8/3 2023
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I was planning on getting up and exercising this morning. Instead I lay depressed in bed and rolled over and slept half the day. So that was a fail day. My body aches and my mind is sad. But hey ho. Tomorrow’s another day, and another day, and another day and
8/3 2023
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Got a message on Mia’s page from a young lady who wanted to rent the page. Haha. That’s a new one. She wanted to put up a couple of posts per day I think. I looked at her profile and she is a very attractive young lady, assuming it’s not a fake profile. Looked like the typical influencer type. I don’t know what she wanted to post on Mia’s page, but I doubt it’s anything goat related. I told her I was not interested in that. I don’t want anything other than my own post on Mia’s page, and I’m not interested in making money off of it.
You get some weird messages sometimes. The weirdest was someone who sent nude photos. Yup. They were pictures of a woman, but the profile was a man. So I don’t know what that was all about, he didn’t say anything. Just a couple of pictures of a naked woman. Ookay. I just ignored that, I don’t even want to know.
Several times a week usually I also get messages from farther off places in the world, India, Pakistan, the middle east. They are often wanting to ask for jobs at my farm. So I have to tell them that I’m just a volunteer goat herder, and there’s no work available. Sometimes they’ll send pictures of their passports and ask about visas and stuff. I don’t blame them for wanting to be goat herders in Denmark, but I can’t help them. There are also a couple of people routinely asking for donations to help with orphanages. And you know, I hate saying no to that, but I have no way of knowing if they are legit. It’s the internet, asking me to just send money to a random paypal address is just not enough.
Sometimes people ask advice about goats, and I’m not an expert other than just sitting around with them, but I do my best to answer as well as I can and then usually tell people to join one of the goat groups on here to get more qualified advice.
It’s strange and funny sometimes, but it’s been lovely being able to spread happy goat posts to so many people over there years. Reading all the comments, the support when times are bad and the happiness and community. And all you good people who have become personal friends here. I value you greatly, even though I’m bad at showing it. I had no idea where the road would lead me when my friend Jen created Mia’s page back in 2012. “She’s as cute as any baby animal on the internet, she could have her own page” was basically the gist. And now here we are. And by the way if you want to increase your food intake without gaining weight try the new patented weight loss minerals DietFreeFunFoodLala with offer cose okay just kidding. I’m not for rent! Unless it’s Mary or Brock maybe…
8/3 2023
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Well, I tried my TENS device for the first time just now.
I am not sure what I think about it. I definitely felt the electric impulses. But I’m not sure it made me feel any better. But it’s hard to say, it’s not like I’m in constant pain, especially when I’m just sitting at the computer. But I’m not sure i feel any less tension in my back. I don’t know.
I’m not sure I put the electrical pads in the right place. Unfortunately the manual is not very helpful. I actually took photos of every page so I could get it on the computer and enlarge and enhance. But tehre was very little useful information. Nothing really about placement of the plugs. And it says it has 20 tens modes, but it says nothing about what each mode actually does. Maybe I shouldn’t just have bought the cheapest one I could find. Maybe a more expensive one would have some better documentation.
I guess I’ll keep trying it. Maybe at higher setting. I started out at level 2 of 16. Upped it to 3 about 10 minutes through the 15 minute session. I did feel the electrical impulses. Kind of like acupuncture with electricity instead of needles.
I’m not feeling too optimistic that I will get anything really out of it, I am sure it does wonders for a lot people. I just feel like it’s a bit beyond me. But we’ll see. I wonder if you’d electrocute yourself if you took a shower right after using it… haha.
8/3 2023
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RE; CBD oil against pain.
I have looked around a bit. I am finding it difficult. I don’t really want to order from the US because of customs and duties and legalities. And the Danish online market is.. difficult to know where what to trust and what’s best. I think i’m going to ask on the Denmark subreddit if anyone has experience ordering cbd in Denmark and if anyone know a trustworthy online shop. I’d like to just have some gummies or softgels or whatever, that seems easiest. But I think it’s still a pretty new and unregulated market in Denmark. Thanks all for the suggestions.
9/3 2023
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I hope today will be a good one. Here’s Mathildefrom 2005.
9/3 2023
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Good goat times today. A beautiful sunny day. But freezing cold. Snow on the ground. Patches of snow and ice in places. I think other places in Denmark were completely covered, so we got off lightly.
Mia seemed good today. Still no info from the vet though. Communication is not always great at the playground. Jeanette comes in early in the morning, but she leaves before some of the others start their shifts later in the day. And it’s not always that her messages to them get listened to, or that she gets theirs. She hasn’t heard anything new about Mia.
But, apparently there had been food in the goat feeder, so I guess they’re getting proper food again. I’m trying to hold back on the treats, but I think it’s okay to give some now. Reservedly. Everyone seemed good. In fact they seemed happier probably because they’d finally gotten proper food again. And Mia dropped some grade a berries, up to code. I think we are good now. It would be nice to actually hear if there are any results from the tests the vet did though. But so far so good.
We had some nice visitors too. Daycare or kindergarten kids. They went into the goat pen in pairs of two and got to see the goats up close and pet them. I ran interference with Milo. Apparently he’d been a bit cranky the other day and had been a bandit to some of the kids. Maybe it’s just because he was upset with the hay diet. But you never know with him.
And hey, I managed to not fall today. Imagine that!
9/3 2023
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Snowy with a chance of goat berries.
9/3 2023
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Falkor lives
9/3 2023
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Tried my TENS device again just now. I have to ask those of you with experiene with it… is it supposed to hurt? Haha. I upped the level to 3, and a little to 4, of 16 levels. And a few of the electric jolts kinda hurt. Not a lot, not so much I couldn’t handle it. And in fact it might have felt a little nice. But are you actually supposed to feel the electric jolts like that? Or are you supposed to not feel it physically?
I have to say, after another 15 minutes sessions.. I feel like a bit of the tension in back might have lessened. It was out a lot today and very tense and painful. I’m not sure if it’s the TENS that did it or it’s that I’ve been still in my chair for hours now. Or it’s psychosomatic. In any case I will certainly keep experimenting with it. And I got some replies on the Danish subreddit about buying CBD oil in Denmark, so I have some sites to look at that and see if it’s possible. I feel like the Danish market is still pretty Wild Wild West, it’s hard to know which places to trust. But hey hey we’ll see. Thank you to everyone who has offered ideas and support. It’s close to two months now without a single say of feeling normal and it is tiring. Knowing that if i get up and go outside then I’ll be in pain for the rest of the day is pretty demotivating.
One day a day.
9/3 2023
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I hope today will be a good one. Here’s Popcorn from 2015.
10/3 2023
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One from today’s exercise mix. Managed an hour and half, so that’s something. I’m sleeping fairly well in bed now, as long as I take painkillers for the arm. I don’t need them during the day anymore. Since they do nothing for my back pains. Keep on trucking.
10/3 2023
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It’s been a while. Here’s a goatlog.
10/3 2023
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Hey hey! Thank you so much Beverly Fish for not one but TWO lovely cards! Thank you for the birthday and recovery wishes. That was so kind of you, and you were right. By the time I got the cards I was back with the goats! Thank you for thinking of me!
10/3 2023
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I wanna I wanna I wanna be your pillow.
10/3 2023
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Happy Caturday everyone. I hope it’s a good one. Here’s Nala.
11/3 2023
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Guess what I’m doing?
I’m heating up a pot of soup!
Yes, it’s soup day.
I did not feel up to joining the family for soup today. Even just standing at the stove, peeling potatoes and carrots, I felt the tension and pain building in my back. Sigh. So a trip out walking was not appealing to me.
But dad came over with soup. Yes, mom cooked soup, dad delivered it to me. I know, I’m a spoiled boy. Hashtag blessed. Call it an early birthday gift.
Now I got soup for 3-4 days. Good stuff.
11/3 2023
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Happy Funday everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
12/3 2023
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Exercise is done. A pot of soup warming on the stove. Going to sit back and enjoy mama’s homemade soup while watching old episodes of The Soup from 2008. If you’re going to go soup you must go full soup.
12/3 2023
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That’s all for now.