A Year To Forget About It
Happy Mio Monday everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
20/3 2023
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Good goat times today. A quiet day. Rainy. Not heavy rain, but enough that it was decided by committee that we stayed inside and chewed cud instead of going out and doing stuff.
I need to learn how to chew cud. Or arrange it so my vote counts for 4.
I spent some good time sitting in the chair that Jeanette brought for me. While the goats scuttled around and occasionaly politely inquired if there was a chance of treats. There usually is.
Hopefully th grass is growing.
20/3 2023
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Make it rain.. treats.
20/3 2023
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Oh boy, I am loving my TENS device. It feels so good. Now again, I am not sure if it really helps my back.. pain. I use it while sitting at the computer, and I don’t generally feel pain while sitting at my computer. Not in my back at least. But the massage it gives.. oh yeah. I tried a session at level 14 out of 16 and it felt goood. It fires electrical impulses into your muscles. Or. Something like that. It feels like you’re getting a message by electric fingers. I love it. And today I did feel like my back was less tense when I was outside. It may just be my imagination or placebo effect or randomness. Can’t say for sure it’s improving my general condition. But the shock massage sessions themselves, feel really good.
20/3 2023
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How do humans sit on these things…
20/3 2023
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HappY Yogi daY everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
21/3 2023
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Heh heh. Heh. No I haven’t seen your stash. Heh heh.
21/3 2023
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You know what they say. If you can’t stand the heat in the kitchen… why don’t you just turn it down? It’s the 21st century, there’s temperature controls in most rooms. Just turn it down to a more comfortable level and you’ll be fine.
21/3 2023
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Happy Hump Day everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
22/3 2023
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There’s gotta be a better way of making an omelette, this is taking forever.
22/3 2023
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I hope today will be a good done. Here’s Medium from 2013.
23/3 2023
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Well, bad family news.
My dad has had two strokes this week.
He’s at home and doing okay under the circumstances. But it’s not good.
He said he’d had ‘strokes’, using the English word. But both times he was rushed to the hospital they apparently didn’t find what was wrong with him or what had happened. it is from his description of what happened and what he felt that they say he’s had strokes. I think the second time it happened when he was at the dementia center place and it sounded like it had been something out of a movie scene, with him collapsing and the other people there keeping him alive while they waited for the ambulance. It is scary. But I guess it’s a good sign that they have let him go home? He’s going to be going back to his doctor and the hospital of course, but for now he is coping. Very tired and weak but at least he’s alive and seems himself, if tired. This week there’s a guy on a podcast I listen to daily who had a stroke and was on lifesupport and it was dicey for him for awhile, although last I heard he was conscious and was recognising family and had most of his memory.. Get well too, Steve. It’s frightening.
But yeah. For now there’s not much to do. He’s going to rest and we’ll see where the doctors take it from here. It’s sad and scary. I felt like he was doing pretty well too, it seemed like the exercise he did at the dementia center was doing him good and he seemed physically better than he’d been in a long time. I hope he didn’t overdo the exercising.
It’s hard to have to face the fact that your parents are real human beings subject to the real consequences of life and all that it has been. I’m sure most people grow up thinking their parents are superheroes who are above it all. But that’s not how it goes. Dad’s birthday is in two weeks. I hope by then he will feel a bit stronger. Two strokes in a few days is a scary thing though, I just hope things don’t get worse.
23/3 2023
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Thank you everyone for the comments about my dad. Hopefully it will be okay. Man, the last couple of months have been poopy. Lots of worries about family and goats. And then my own stuff. Had physical therapy today. Not much progress. Our next appointment we’ll do an evaluation and if there’s no real progress then the physio will refer me back to my doctor for further examination, since he seems to feel there’s not much more he can do. I still feel like.. I haven’t had that much actual physical therapy? But I think going back to my doc is a good step.
I’m just limping along. I feel like my depression and pain are duking it out like that old mechanical toy with the two robots punching each other. Not sure who’s winning.
But thank you all for being there. Love you loves.
23/3 2023
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Think goat thoughts.
Thank you all the for the support and good wishes.
24/3 2023
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Well a little update from my dad. He’s had a couple of scans. He couldn’t remember what they were called, but he was in a couple of machines, so i’m guess it was an mri and something else,, ultrasound or something. But they haven’t really found anything. But his blood pressure has been very high, I think he said it was 200 over something, and it’s still 190 over something, so that and the changes in his brain from the dementia may be to do with it all. Some kind of blood clot or cerebral hemorrhage. He’ll be seeing his doctor on Monday and should probably get some medication for the blood pressure, i don’t know if that’s the blood thinners some of you have talked about.
He sounded a little better today, but obviously still weak and tired. We can only hope for the best for now I guess.
Thank you all again for hte support and caring. I appreciate it. I’m not in the best mental state right now, but just hanging in there too.
Shoutout to my brother for bringing me flourballs (dumplings) from my parents so I can have my soup. I can’t get them in my local stores, but my parents have a little stash in their freezer. Won’t be able to buy any more until next winter probably. If the world still stands by then.
24/3 2023
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Happy Caturday. I hope this message finds you well. Here is Nala.
I am going to bed early today. Tonight Denmark does the daylight saving switch, which means I’ll be able to sleep one hour less. What is infinity minus one?!
In any case, see you tomorrow when we get there.
25/3 2023
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Happy Funday everyone. I hope it’s a good one.
26/3 2023
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My ear is a bit clogged up. I had a lovely long sleep and dreamwalk. Dreamt about Norm from Cheers among other things. Nooorm.
But I have to sleep with earplugs because there is so much noise here and virtually no sound proofing. I have to jam the earplugs right in there. I think the left ear was bothered considerably. Don’t know if it’s an infection or just irritated or something. Ah well. Nouw I have an excuse not to listen to anyone. Tra la la, give me all the fleet balls.
Sorry, that’s my name for flødeboller. Rugbread is my name for rugbrød. I like mistranslating English words into Danish. Like flourballs for dumplings. Doing a literal translation or just using the Danish word as if it was English. Rug means rye, rugbrød is rye bread, but rugbread sounds like a carpet. Anyway, clearly I am sane and setting the clocks dimensionally paralel to fourt demonination of pie worked out well.
Did someone say pie? I heard that.
26/3 2023
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Nobody put Mia in the corner. But throw some peanuts there and she’ll go look.
26/3 2023
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That’s all for now.