Daily Archives: April 23, 2013

Dogs, Family

She’s Homeward Bound

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Spring                                                                          Planting Moon

Kate’s in Lincoln, Nebraska.  She’ll see the international quilt museum tomorrow, then head east into Iowa. That’ll put her home on Thursday.  I’ll be really glad to have her back.

Our plan about vehicles works well.  We have one at home, the Rav4 and when we need a car for a long trip, we rent one.  Usually now from Enterprise.  That way we put the mileage on the rentals and the Rav4 stays home.

Feels like I’ve floated through the last three days, seeing the vet with Kona three different times, John Desteian, picking up and hiving the bees, taking meds that make me feel weird.  I’ve set aside my exercising–too much pain–and my writing and my Latin–too hard to concentrate.

That’s life at times, one foot in front of the other, getting through the day and on to the next one.  I don’t feel bad about it.  At all.  Just what’s required right now.

Tomorrow I see the eye doc.  Get my glaucoma surveilled and check those flashes of light I’ve begun to have in the upper left quadrant of my left eye.

 

 

 

Bees, Dogs, Health

Kona. No longer lopsided.

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Spring                                                                              Planting Moon

The tumor removal went well; it came off easily.  Kona was sitting up after the procedure, probably wondering if she’d have to go back to the vet tomorrow.  In 20 minutes I’ll find out when she can come home.  It will be today.

(Kona, Vega and Gertie wanting to be on the other side of the fence.)

I took a long nap aided by Mr. Tramadol and Ms. Oxycodone.  Though both of them have worn off by now my lower back and right hip feel better, not well, but better, which is a victory.

Enough that I went out and gingerly moved the remaining frames of honey from the hive boxes where I’ll put the package later this afternoon.  Just lifting two hive boxes with four frames of honey each did challenge the back though I tried to make my form a perfect 10.  Finding these ordinary, common chores painful does not make me happy.

Getting the bees hived is important and the weather is nice, sunny and no precip.  Have to wait until later this evening so the temps will be cooler and night will be coming, both induce the bees to remain at home for the first day.

 

Dogs, Health, Weather +Climate

Woozy

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Spring (so they say)                                                      Planting Moon

Kona’s at the vets getting her tumor removed.  Gertie’s down here in the study, lying down close to the desk.  Rigel has begun to worry about her mama, looking through the gate in the morning toward the bedroom.  Where could she be?

Kona will come home today, probably late in the afternoon.  She’s been to the vet three days in a row and is not a particularly happy dog at this time.

The meds I’ve been taking for this damned back make me a bit woozy, between that and the pain, my capacity to get things done has diminished quite a bit.  I’ll be glad when the back decides to calm down and I can resume exercising.  It’s also effecting my sleep.  Considerably off.

We did not get 8 inches of snow here.  More like 2 or 3.  Now the forecast has 76 for Sunday.  76.  Maybe some 80’s next week.  No spring this year.  Winter into summer.