Savingdogs-Saving the chickens

[ohiofarmgirl]

Then, just now, I drank it! Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmy! Best glass of milk I ever drank. big_smile

did it taste just like milk!?!!?!? yipee!!!! great work!

 

[Dace]

Sorry to hear about the tough day vertigo sounds awful!

I would love to see a pic of all the dogs, how great I love ridge backs, they are so handsome.

Take it easy and feel better

 

[savingdogs]

Congrats on the milk!!! And glad the new pup is working out!

Have you ever tried those exercises that are supposed to help vertigo? When I had my really bad attack the doc mentioned it and I felt like telling him I would KILL him if he even thought about turning my head all which ways. I was never brave enough to try it. I just found that the dizziness would subside eventually (days later) if I never laid flat and tried to keep my head still.

What are these exercises? I've never heard of them.

Sorry Deb, I thought I told you about those already....I HATE them and perhaps that is why they slipped my mind. Here is a great website describing the whole deal:
http://www.entkent.com/Cawthorne-Cooksey.html

Yes, Katie, I have tried this and they make me horribly, horribly ill. I'm really a bad case, my balance system is pretty much shot. It recovers in this fashion regularly and then gets hit again. I don't really have much balance and kind of float around. That is why you hear me describing all my falls. I'm often full of bruises! Also why I gave up horseback riding and bike riding, two things I really enjoyed. I hate my illness, sorry to whine, but it limits me so much and changed my life so much, it is hard to not dwell on it.

My doctor always stresses that plain walking is the best treatment for vertigo.

And regarding that first glass of milk...............it was awful expensive! Had I any idea just how much money and work would go into it, I might not have started with goats. But now that I have them, they are my new life.

I can't tell you how happy my three little babies out there made me this morning. They all look fat and frisky and friendly and it is AWESOME!

I'll get those pictures for everyone today!

 

[Farmfresh]

I have days like that with my arthritis. Get a little job done. Then sit and fall apart for a while. Work a bit, swell a bit. What a drag. Sorry you have to go through this stuff.

 

[savingdogs]

Gosh I didn't mean to whine....I'm fine, really. I'm used to this yuckiness. If someone else had it hit them like it does me it would probably be worse for them. I have taught myself how to deal with it for the most part. My family is trained to pick up where I leave off.

Missing out on conversations, phone, music, shows, etc..........now that one is a hard one to get over. If anyone wants to feel sorry for me, it is much more depressing to go deaf. I mean, if I could pick one symptom to go away, it would be the vertigo of course, but deafness makes one pretty unhappy if you are a social and outgoing type. Music used to be a huge part of my world that is like a knife twisting in my heart whenever I try to remember or hear songs. I'm learning to be a new type and not become an agorophobe or dwell on these things I can no longer eat or do or hear.

OFG tells me Onward and Upward, and I'm working real hard to remember what she says. In some ways I've led a very blessed life.

I have to feel lucky that I get to spend my days here with my farm and animals I adore, these dogs I love saving and my goats, buns and birds. I dreamed my whole life of living in the woods, seeing deer out the window. I always wanted trees looking down on my back yard, not the neighbor's windows and their kids swingsets. I grew up like a "misplaced country girl" like Deb calls herself....the horse girl who longed to gallop across a meadow on a fine horse and look out the back window at my red barn and my critters wanting me to come out and feed them. I get a kick out of being at a place like the feed store and needing sweet feed and layena.

I'm not exactly there, living my dream life, but in a lot of ways I'm a lot closer. I'm trying to use this time to get closer to God and hope He helps me learn why this has happened to me and what it is he wants me to do with the rest of my purposefulness and plan for me.

I have found more guidance here, with you, than anywhere in my life. You guys even appeared on my SSI disability claim my husband just filled out regarding me. He stated "The only thing that seems to help her these days are her support group friends on an internet site. It is all she has."

 

[Javamama]

I don't think anyone thinks you are a whiner SD - quite the opposite in fact. You are an inspiration to those of us dealing with health challenges.

I need to check out your disbudding photos while I'm in your journal. The perfectionist in me is sure that we messed up

edit - just remembered they are in the kidding thread, so off I go to find them...

 

[savingdogs]

Yes I put all that in the kidding thread just so OFG would not be too grossed out. I know how the "p" word is upsetting to her.

 

[Farmfresh]

I don't think anyone thinks you are a whiner SD - quite the opposite in fact. You are an inspiration to those of us dealing with health challenges.

What she said!

I wish I had as much drive as you do.

 

[savingdogs]

Picture time!

 

[savingdogs]

This is Emilee.....very friendly little doeling....
Is it me or is my baby lovely?


And here is Molly's little guy, Sebastian, named after his dad. He really looks like a cross but his dad had these markings somewhat.