Are we living our dream?

[Medicine Woman]

So are any of y’all rabbit experts here and can tell me what is the most likely problem that stops rabbits from reproducing?

 

[Medicine Woman]

I have a little bit of magic in my hands and fingers and then some of my remedies really relax people. I make a pain lotion and put certain essential oil’s in it and benzocaine because the prescription alternatives are far too expensive and I apply that after a little chiropractic type assistance. DH doesn’t seem to understand the term ‘Downsize.’ I have tried many times to explain that we need to just have one single farm wherever we decide home is and just focus on that but instead we now have 4 locations we have responsibilities to seeing each day. I really believe he is planting something right now in a freshly tilled garden. But he did talk about going fishing. And when he does that he doesn’t go out with a rod and reel. He goes out with a friend (a paraplegic) steering the boat and him throwing out 100 jug lines in the bayou with chicken guts for bait and by the time they are done they might have 60 pounds of catfish fillets and be wondering what to do with the skeletons
DS yelled at me 2 nights ago and I don’t know if he was drinking. It was over the phone. He sent me some rather rough text messages. I know I should probably just not care but I do. He usually apologizes but he hasn’t. Sometimes I just sit here in depression if the truth were known. I am better when I am busy. Time has a way of passing by while I sit here and look at all the destruction. It’s not even over because I am waiting for that big pine tree to fall on the pig pen and picnic table and the darn chainsaw is broken again.

 

[flowerbug]

Yeah so …..Army Mom suddenly freaking cleaning everything!!! Omg!!

not sure who Army Mom is...? you?

 

[Medicine Woman]

Good morning. So gas prices are the big talk and all. I have been spending more time with my younger sister who sadly isn’t in good health. She doesn’t drive and I have been bringing her to Mass and to the grocery store. DH sends her fish. So Monday I was going up the bayou because I heard of an old man who was selling lots of garden plants for $0.50 each and no stores can compete with that. So I am almost there and my ex started texting me regarding our 18 year old being taken off of SS and only the youngest child receiving all the benefits and asking me why I didn’t tell him. So much drama!! I tried to explain that it didn’t make any difference because I received the same money and DD worked with me all summer to have even more money but he only wants to scream and not listen. I bought a bunch of plants and ended up exchanging numbers with the old man and the ex is still calling me to yell. I drove a few feet and took his call but didn’t put him on speaker and I told my sister…look this is how I handle this problem and while he was all stupid on the phone I blocked him and then hung up. Shortly afterwards I started getting frantic text messages from the girls that I needed to come get them. I am 5 towns away from them and suddenly I am driving over the limit heading down the bayou to drop off my sister with both of our plants. I get a call from middle child asking wth is going on and I explain and learn she is in route to get the 3 girls because they are all scared. He started yelling at them because they didn’t support him enough. It’s a sad thing but if there is one thing I can count on is eventually getting my kids because he will lose all his stuff and they will need a peaceful place to escape to. So HDD likes to hang with the 18 year old all the time and that one absolutely doesn’t want to live with me although she loves me and comes to me with her needs. But I had to tell HDD that I was her guardian and she has to live with me and youngest child refuses to see her father for a while now. All this mess happened on her 15th birthday. I ended up getting the police to escort me to his house so I can pick up dogs and birthday girl and see my crying daughters. So now I have two of the three girls in the little house. Fortunately only home schooling one. So Monday was such a mess because I was not planning on running all over like that. I am need up needing to tank up. Ouch!! At first I didn’t think DD was going to want to go to Taekwondo but she did. Honestly I think facing off with her father made her desire a black belt. About a month ago she had pulled him off his boyfriend and now he was mad at me for nothing. And to think I had offered to buy him some plants as well. Oh well…life goes on.
Tuesday was calmer. I was able to get all my normal stuff done and make up for missing the pharmacy the day before. And I bought fabric to make DD a new Taekwondo uniform which has been on back order for months. Unfortunately I haven’t cut it out yet but I will…hopefully today. I hope I can alter the gi to be a pullover top because so much less fabric. The pattern I ordered is a traditional uniform. Most of the time DD is the highest belt in the class but Monday was packed and the black belt student and the black belt contender returned. So DD has people she can actually fight with. But neither were there Wednesday 🤷‍♀️
So yeah….gotta get all that mess out of my system and try to focus on giving a good account of myself today. I am hearing so many complaints about fatigue and pain from DH so really gotta get him out of atrial fib as soon as possible. He really has a lot of appointments this month. And we have a bunch of birthdays in March. It’s gonna be expensive.
How to fit animal husbandry, gardening, hurricane repair, homeschool, small engine repair and other related things?? I guess one thing at a time.

 

[Medicine Woman]

Looks like some nasty storms went through your area. Are you safe? Do you have power?

Well most of my life I have been fine with storms but I guess Ida affected me because during the storm I was just praying and DD and DH were asking me if I was okay. I just told them it was good to pray.
Just last night DD question me about how to make a storm shelter. I told her I guess we’d have to frame something up and then bury it. PTSD is not nice.

 

[Medicine Woman]

It is most important that a nurse knows how to properly administer medicine to her patients. It is also very important that she knows how to help her employer pass the state audit when the time comes. For years I did both at the same time but it did damage my feet. I still know how to read orders and properly prepare the medicine but my feet really want to be relaxed while I do it. I remember exactly how my instructors preached against this but if I can’t sit down and pour and later run around and administer then all I am fit for is tending a bridge, whatever farming I can do and keeping my house…..maybe crocheting and sewing or something. Strangely my DON and ADON claims they pre-pour themselves. They told me this when they interviewed me. I think maybe the nurse who trained me was afraid to train me lay back. Maybe she only trains officially. I can teach a baby nurse the correct way. That’s not a problem. But my beat up days are over. Last time I was in a facility when state walked in, I was able to whisper to all the young nurses everything they needed to remember to do so we could pass without a 2nd visit and the med pass went great. I was watched administering an eye drop in a private room. I was asked about the other eye drops and I said I would come back in a few minutes for them and I would catch other residents meds in between drops. (You know….kill time). Auditor wanted to know why I didn’t just get it all done and I said well maybe another nurse might know another way to give drops but I assume we went to a different school or something. As far as I know I need to space the drops apart so I just keep popping in and out the room until I am finished. She seemed satisfied. The patient even agreed that I always do it that way. But I kept going to the young nurses asking if anyone had come to them or telling them lock your cart. Never forget to lock up. And wash y’all hands. And all the time let them see you sanitizing your hands. Tell you the truth I think I should be given a special office in the back of a hall with a coffee pot and a computer and then I can go visit a patient with his or her chart and we can just talk things over and I can talk to the aides about what they need help with and look at the medicine the nurses actually are giving and compare it to the order. They can call me the 💩 finder. I excell at finding it. I can fix 💩 as I find it without everyone losing their mind and then when state comes in we all ready. But otherwise I think I see a bridge in my future.

 

[Medicine Woman]

What can I say? It’s such a big pill to swallow

 

[Medicine Woman]

great news!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

NO ideas what that might be - but sorry for the loss of your pup!

 

[Medicine Woman]

Facebook logged me out this morning, won't login and password reset doesn't work. I'm assuming its a glitch