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tortoise
Wild Hare
On Saturday I went to my hometown for a Dysautonomia International awareness event. It was awesome to meet other people who have similar struggles. I made a day of it, shopped, spent way too much money, and had an awesome-fun day. I left the kids with Grandma and had a lazy Sunday too.
Last night though....
DS2 decided that sleeping on the top of the stairs was a good idea. I caught him in the act and took him back to bed. Then just before midnight as I'm about to turn my light off, I hear him FALL DOWN THE STAIRS.
He was barely awake, so sleepy, but I woke up DH to check him over. Then DS2 woke up and started SCREAMING. That's the worst feeling ever. He calmed down and started talking about "scared" and he claimed that nothing hurt. I sat up with him for about an hour before I was satisfied that his pupils were unchanged. Then I slept with him - and an alarm set for every 2 hours to check on him. After the last check I took him to bed. 6 a.m. I woke up at 9 and felt awful, too sick to take my medication. Then woke up 11:45 feeling less-awful. Today has been rough, poor sleep, dehydration, and late medication. I'm getting stuff done slowly, but mostly need to sit and keep drinking Gatorade 
until I'm not tachy.
DH was able to take the afternoon off work and he is out bowhunting. It's windy! i bet he's freezing even with his heated vest and insoles.
DH put a light on for the hens and after a couple days we had a bunch of new layers! nice! We had an egg customer - 1 dozen a week - and I didn't have enough left for us. Now we'll have plenty of eggs through the winter even while the molting birds recover. DH wants to cull because of the prospect of having 20+ eggs per day in spring (11 dozen per week). I disagree. I can use 6 dozen per week in our cooking/baking. We sell 1 dozen per week. And we can go back to giving our parents 4 dozen per week like we used to before we started using our own eggs. That's 11 dozen, I think we'll be okay!
Last night though....
DS2 decided that sleeping on the top of the stairs was a good idea. I caught him in the act and took him back to bed. Then just before midnight as I'm about to turn my light off, I hear him FALL DOWN THE STAIRS.
He was barely awake, so sleepy, but I woke up DH to check him over. Then DS2 woke up and started SCREAMING. That's the worst feeling ever. He calmed down and started talking about "scared" and he claimed that nothing hurt. I sat up with him for about an hour before I was satisfied that his pupils were unchanged. Then I slept with him - and an alarm set for every 2 hours to check on him. After the last check I took him to bed. 6 a.m. I woke up at 9 and felt awful, too sick to take my medication. Then woke up 11:45 feeling less-awful. Today has been rough, poor sleep, dehydration, and late medication. I'm getting stuff done slowly, but mostly need to sit and keep drinking Gatorade until I'm not tachy.DH was able to take the afternoon off work and he is out bowhunting. It's windy! i bet he's freezing even with his heated vest and insoles.
DH put a light on for the hens and after a couple days we had a bunch of new layers! nice! We had an egg customer - 1 dozen a week - and I didn't have enough left for us. Now we'll have plenty of eggs through the winter even while the molting birds recover. DH wants to cull because of the prospect of having 20+ eggs per day in spring (11 dozen per week). I disagree. I can use 6 dozen per week in our cooking/baking. We sell 1 dozen per week. And we can go back to giving our parents 4 dozen per week like we used to before we started using our own eggs. That's 11 dozen, I think we'll be okay!
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