Coffee anyone ?

[peteyfoozer]

Sun’s out, pain levels down a bit, thank goodness. Fen wants to go riding or do something, TheMan has cabin fever already. I’m not gonna make it through this month with my sanity! 😂 Would be nice to slip a little something in my coffee but I don’t drink…sure would like to get chicken pen painted…maybe I can do it today…

 

[Mini Horses]

Steady mist out there 🤷 as I drive tractor, I get little sharp bits of water slapping my face...👎. Lunch over. Get dry shirt & Getting back out there to finish. Goats disassembled a piece of fence, after climbing and breaking the old post. 😖 dang, didn't need that. And, found 33 y/o old mare crossed the rainbow bridge last night RIP now there's that to handle. But goats went back into field...chewing cud.

These are days you wonder if you need to sell it all! 🤔🥹

 

[peteyfoozer]

TheMan has been doing well and walking a lot but his foot is still very swollen. He can’t elevate it more than just laying down (no pillows or anything under his leg) as anything more causes painful cramps and panic attacks. I’m going to rub it with cayenne oil again, does anyone have a better solution? @Baymule or @Mini Horses?

 

[farmerjan]

@Mini Horses sorry for the loss of the mare. We talked about the aging out of them when we got together... and it is just a sad situation. BUT,,,, they have gotten to live out their life in a peaceful good situation with you and that is to be commended. Hard to bury them as they were a big part of your life with your spouse and each one lets go of another little part. I remember when my mare died after having her since I was a teenager... had her for 27 years... she was 1 1/2 when I got her from my 4-H leader... been years since she went but, still a part of the past gone...
It is misty/damp here today... radar shows you getting more there off the coast. But this cloudy is just depressing.
I am at the wondering if I just need to "retire" and be done with the BS with work... so yeah, I get the just feeling like being "done" with some of it.

@peteyfoozer , glad that DH is wanting to do things, he needs to work it... and no solutions for the swelling... I would put mine up on a stool to just not be "hanging straight down"...
Recliner where you can put the foot part up while "reclining"?

 

[Jesusfreak101]

At hospital nothing wrong with baby or me. midwife was wrong on dilation and several other things. Glad we came cause if she had let me push that would have been bad.

 

[farmerjan]

At hospital nothing wrong with baby or me. midwife was wrong on dilation and several other things. Glad we came cause if she had let me push that would have been bad.

🙏🙏

 

[SageHill]

@peteyfoozer -- don't laugh - but what about bucket of water and a hose - like we do with horses??

 

[CLSranch]

No baby yet. Midwife had come over yesterday to give me some herbs to try to help nothing happened. Been trying all kinds of things to bring on labor. My last midwife would break my water this one refuses to do so. I have till Wednesday then I hit 42 weeks and then I have to go to hospital.

My kids were all close to the 42 week mark. Late on ALL Dr.s suggestions. 1st boy was closest to on time but off on there date because of when they say you got breed. We new exactly what days I came home and no I'm not worried and know Jody wasn't at the house.
Went the midwife route on the second 2 because (1) the $30,000 bill that came with going to the hospital (2) the fact the Dr. just walked in and broke her water without assessing the situation, just to find out OH HAY the baby is not in the right position. (3) they like to induce because it's convenient for them, not healthy for you or the baby. Oh shoot if something goes wrong we're in the hospital and will fix it (AND CHARGE THEM) later.

Now it is STATE law that after a certain time, (I want to say 42 weeks) it's mandatory to go to the hospital and the midwives are not allowed to do a at home birth. To me some women (at least my wife) are always longer and the Dr. doesn't know the actual age of the baby. Just a guess of your most likely (not actual) time of conception.
My rant is over.


I hope and wish all goes well from here on out for you and the baby.

Why can't my mind give me these messages when I'm out there to take care of it?? Maybe it does and I procrastinate. 🤣🙄. Today I'm doing!

Maybe that's my problem.???? Like turning off the water at 3 the other morning, I guess it sometimes helps but the daily sleep is much more important than a few more hours of water on dry ground.

Would be nice to slip a little something in my coffee but I don’t drink…

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but after taking allergy meds I noticed my RA has gone way down. I'm still a young pup but I could give a 3 day heads up on the snow when I was 18. I had to take osteo bi-flex or other supplements every winter in my early 20's to not hurt non stop once I stopped and tried to relax.
Side note the reason I know it's RA is the fact allergy meds help. I was getting x-rays and MRI's at 21. The little green bottle is much cheaper.

TheMan has been doing well and walking a lot but his foot is still very swollen. He can’t elevate it more than just laying down (no pillows or anything under his leg) as anything more causes painful cramps and panic attacks. I’m going to rub it with cayenne oil again, does anyone have a better solution?

Again I'm a young pup (who drinks to much-dehydration). I've been taking the little pedialyte pouchs that you mix with water in morning and it has helped with cramping. Without, I had to pull over on the way home and walk out some leg cramps after getting some wood. I've always had leg cramps. I'm still sore from the ones from last week. Started those and none since while doing more work and sweating.

Dang maybe I should get on more regular so it's kept shorter.lol

 

[CLSranch]

Also 3rd child was also at home days away from legally having to go to the hospital while going the midwife route and ends up I delivered. So many people asked how could/did I do it. I said it's pretty well going to happen with or without help, has for thousands of years. Only the last 50 that hospital births were common.
Just catch.lol I know there's more to it just making light.

 

[CLSranch]

At hospital nothing wrong with baby or me. midwife was wrong on dilation and several other things. Glad we came cause if she had let me push that would have been bad.

Pardon my rudeness. I should have started with I'm glad ya'll are doing well.
I started quoting before I got that far.