I'm hoping they'll load themselves pretty well... they ARE hogs after all...and they do LOVE to eat! Biggest issue will be moving them to the area to load them in. It'll take a little effort, but it's totally do-able.
Yesterday was NOT a great day. I'm at work alone all this week. Both of my co-workers are at different conferences and I'm holding the fort down here. Soooo, yesterday afternoon I get one of "those" calls from DH that I HATE!
He's having ANOTHER eye bleed...left eye this time... bless his heart! He always tries to act so tough when they are happening and I know he's probably just a bit panicked inside. I can't even imagine what it must be like to sit there and watch your vision disappear - literally right in front of (actually right inside) of your eye. He can see the blood building up inside his eyeball and his vision fading away... makes me so sad.
So, I texted my boss and told her I was going to have to shut down the office and leave. She's awesome and said - go! Thankfully, we had notified the students that this week was going to be limited services anyway so it wasn't a huge deal. Drove him into Houston where his ophthalmologist is and sat around for a couple hours so they could work him in to give him the injection to slow/stop the bleeding.
This was the FOURTH bleed that he's had. First the right eye, then the left, then the right and then the left again yesterday. He drove from his place of employment to mine after the bleed started yesterday because he didn't want to leave his car at his workplace. He probably shouldn't have done that! So last night on the way home from the doc's, he thought he should pick up his car from my workplace and drive it home. NOPE! Not happening - he can barely see and by that time it's dark. He stayed home today so I MIGHT bring him back up here at lunch and let him drive it home - but I might not either!
This is the worst one he's had to date. His vision was so bad in that left eye that he couldn't even see the biggest letter on the chart. He couldn't see the nurse holding up her hand six feet away from him....he couldn't see her holding up her hand three feet away from him....and he could barely see her when she waved it right in front of his face. Thankfully, his right eye has gotten a little better from his last bleed so he's not totally sightless.
And, just because it's our lucky week....today he was supposed to get an insulin pump. His new endocrinologist told him that he needs to be on the pump. His body makes zero insulin on his own so he's basically a type I diabetic now. Not good news -but the pump should keep much tighter control on his sugars so hoping that it's a bonus. The DME company was supposed to come to his office TODAY and get him all set up - but guess what - he's not at work. ARGH! He needs this pump. His technician said that she's been on a pump for 7 years now and she hasn't had an eye bleed since she got on it. Hope it works that well for him.
AND - just for an extra added measure of fun - my granddaughter has a broken leg! She and her brother were playing tag Sunday afternoon when she tripped and fell causing him to trip over her and fall on her. He landed on her leg with his elbow right under her knee. My DD said she was walking on it, but limping so she iced it and kept her off of it all night, and took her in to their doc yesterday. Of course Doc orders an x-ray and there's a fracture. Thankfully, not a displaced fracture - but more than a hairline. They called it a "buckle" fracture because basically the bone buckled. Because she's so young (5) it wasn't a complete fracture. However, the bone is "bent" so they're going to an orthopedist today to get his opinion on it. They have the poor girl splinted from ankle to thigh.
unlike their full sized counterparts, AGHs are height challenged, short legs (create the hippo look) Unless the trailer is very low, they just look in.
You have such a good attitude about all this but it sucks! All of that, and does ready to kid... You so need to retire, you don't have time to work! I hope your granddaughter finds a way to have fun. Poor kid.
