First duck egg of 2023.
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If I recall, last year they laid way early a few times then quit for a month or so. I figured I'd let you all know I'm still kickin' at the same time.
I was just thinking today ( I wonder if the rabbits are reproducing, the way they like to 🤣 ) and then I find the egg. I've noticed mourning doves making the mating call here lately too.
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The wife is doing fine.She's been wanting a small dog for in the house and we found a Terrier mix but it kept chasing the cat trying to play with it so we had to give the dog to her daughter. Me on the other hand am having to see a pain specialist. He's going to try giving me an epidural and see if that helps. I've had to have my blood pressure medication adjusted again too. It sucks getting old.
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Tell me about it. My heart doc, the fifth one I've had, was killed in car accident the other night. I was going to keep him. He was good. He didn't hide things. It's really thrown me for a loop.
Try getting an older one and not a terrier. I have a rescue now. A chi/hot dog mix. She's about six, they think. She gets along fine with my old cat. I also have Maisey. the Goldendoodle, a wild child but she doesn't bother the old cat.
I hope the epidural works for you. Is this for your back?
Try getting an older one and not a terrier. I have a rescue now. A chi/hot dog mix. She's about six, they think. She gets along fine with my old cat. I also have Maisey. the Goldendoodle, a wild child but she doesn't bother the old cat.
I hope the epidural works for you. Is this for your back?
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I'm sorry to hear thsat about your doc.
We figure a puppy would be better so it can grow up being around the cat. The cat doesn't have front claws and can't defend itself and probably wouldn't be as scared of a puppy as an older dog. Plus it'd be easier to train a puppy not to chase it if the need be. We'd prefer a Dachshund or other smaller dog than a Terrier. We only got the Terrier because the lady that had it was moving and couldn't take it with her.There's really nothing to choose from around here,small dogs get adopted as fast as they come in.
Yeah the epidural is for my back. Sitting in most of the chairs we have get it hurting in 10 minutes usually. Laying on the bed and holding my head up is hard on my arm and neck.The 41 years of back trouble has gotten to where the surgeons say it's not bad but the Chiropractor can't do much with it anymore.
We figure a puppy would be better so it can grow up being around the cat. The cat doesn't have front claws and can't defend itself and probably wouldn't be as scared of a puppy as an older dog. Plus it'd be easier to train a puppy not to chase it if the need be. We'd prefer a Dachshund or other smaller dog than a Terrier. We only got the Terrier because the lady that had it was moving and couldn't take it with her.There's really nothing to choose from around here,small dogs get adopted as fast as they come in.
Yeah the epidural is for my back. Sitting in most of the chairs we have get it hurting in 10 minutes usually. Laying on the bed and holding my head up is hard on my arm and neck.The 41 years of back trouble has gotten to where the surgeons say it's not bad but the Chiropractor can't do much with it anymore.
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That could work. A breed that is more laid back. I don't know why Maisy has been good with my old cat but she has. She went after my Guineas as a pup and they attacked her. Hasn't stopped her from going after them. Trixie, the rescue, went to meet Sissy, the cat, Sissy hissed at her. Case closed. Trixie had been around cats because she is fine with Sissy.
But it sounds like you'd have something done when the back docs think it's time. That's good. Wait, will they do surgery with your COPD? How is that going? You haven't said anything in a long time.
But it sounds like you'd have something done when the back docs think it's time. That's good. Wait, will they do surgery with your COPD? How is that going? You haven't said anything in a long time.
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From what I'm hearing I'd about have to be to the point of loosing the function of something before the spine surgeon would do anything. COPD hasn't been brought up when talking to surgeons but my high blood pressure always is. The COPD is about the same,it's the only thing that don't seem like it's getting much worse. I'm getting out of breath a little easier than I was but not by much. If I could get off the **** smokes it'd help probably.
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I wish you could too. I have a friend here with it and to my surprise he kicked the cigs. He's one of those good ole country boys. The men do men things, the women do women things. His quitting the cigs was momentous.
One of our members here just had surgery. He's doing very well. Pain was big beforehand. Areas were all numb and not wanting to work correctly. A former member just had her neck rebuilt. Hers was a bigger surgery but she's doing really really well. So, if they decide now is the time, don't worry about the old stories.
Yeah, BP messes with a lot of stuff. Just think, had you not said something here you might not still be here to talk about getting old and how much that sucks.
One of our members here just had surgery. He's doing very well. Pain was big beforehand. Areas were all numb and not wanting to work correctly. A former member just had her neck rebuilt. Hers was a bigger surgery but she's doing really really well. So, if they decide now is the time, don't worry about the old stories.
Yeah, BP messes with a lot of stuff. Just think, had you not said something here you might not still be here to talk about getting old and how much that sucks.
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I quit smokes for 4 days back in late summer but then 2 or 3 major things went wrong with the truck that stressed me out real bad. If my 4x4 Ranger had still been driveable it wouldn't have been that bad but it's got a bad transmission leak so I had to park it.
I haven't heard of anybody lately personally that's had back surgery but I've heard good and bad old stories. I know medicine has come a long way in the last few decades so I'm not has concerned about it now as I used to be.
Yeah I still let people know I was the 1 that found my BP problem instead of the doctors. I also say if I hadn't, I very well could've had a heart attack or stroke by now with how high it was and my circulation condition.
I haven't heard of anybody lately personally that's had back surgery but I've heard good and bad old stories. I know medicine has come a long way in the last few decades so I'm not has concerned about it now as I used to be.
Yeah I still let people know I was the 1 that found my BP problem instead of the doctors. I also say if I hadn't, I very well could've had a heart attack or stroke by now with how high it was and my circulation condition.
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No doubt stuff keeps happening to you and the missus. It does get old after a while.
Well, you heard it from knowing two people who had work done this past January and doing really, really well. And glad they did it.
That eye thing is what got all this going. You being smart enough to push them to do something different probably saved your life.
Well, you heard it from knowing two people who had work done this past January and doing really, really well. And glad they did it.
That eye thing is what got all this going. You being smart enough to push them to do something different probably saved your life.
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I didn't push them to do something different. The eye surgeon suggested getting a home BP checker and when I got it I just curiously checked my other arm and found that arrm said it was high so I told my family doctor. She right away put me on BP medicine. She also checked further and they found the artery along my left collarbone was restricted. Sometime later I was having leg pain and the vascular surgeon checked and found an artery in my left thigh was restricted too. It's actually the eye surgeon that got things going, saying my eye stroke was from high BP when nobody knew I did since they always check the left arm. It even took a few visits before he brought up getting a home checker. Between the time it took for me to see the regular eye doctor and the eye surgeon saying to check it at home, a year might have passed before we found it, not quite sure on the time frame though.
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A refresher is good. I don't think it was a year. You had a whole bunch of stuff happening all at once. It might have felt like a year though. I know the thing with deciding about the artery blockage was drawn out.
But if you had not said something about that eye here none of this would have been found.
More docs need to tell patients with BP issues to have a home monitor. But they don't. Your eye surgeon was probably way ahead of the others in suggesting you get one.
BTW, I didn't know it was you exploring with your monitor that got your PC rolling on the BP. I remember you having to insist that they check the right arm.
But if you had not said something about that eye here none of this would have been found.
More docs need to tell patients with BP issues to have a home monitor. But they don't. Your eye surgeon was probably way ahead of the others in suggesting you get one.
BTW, I didn't know it was you exploring with your monitor that got your PC rolling on the BP. I remember you having to insist that they check the right arm.
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I said a year because I'd had trouble seeing with my right eye for at least a couple of months before I mentioned it on here. Then figure in the time to get an eye appointment, plus the time after I saw the eye surgeon before he mentioned the monitor. My appointments with him were monthly, so 3 or 4 appointments would've been 3-4 months and it might have been more than that I don't recall. 3-4 months here and there had up to about a year easily. Even if it was only 9 months, that's a long time with 180-200 BP. Yeah it was after I had the monitor a couple of days and kept getting 100-120 readings on my left arm before I decided to see what my right arm was. I even tried checking both for a couple of days and even bought another monitor and tried both monitors on both arms for a couple days before I decided to mention it to the doctor. Even now if they start to check my left arm I tell them that's the wrong arm and to check it on my right, I even bought a Medical Alert tag with that wrote on it.
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Good thinking on the medical alert. I probably wouldn't have thought of it.
You're right. In the long run it really was a long span of time before things were hitting on better notes. And didn't things happen with your wife about that time too? Ankle? Covid? Something?
You're right. In the long run it really was a long span of time before things were hitting on better notes. And didn't things happen with your wife about that time too? Ankle? Covid? Something?
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How time flies. Four years since her ankle? It doesn't seem like it. How did that happen?
I get to go to a stress test the middle of March. I'd say I hate that as much as going to the dentist. Except it's because of the oral surgeon I'm even having to go through this.
I get to go to a stress test the middle of March. I'd say I hate that as much as going to the dentist. Except it's because of the oral surgeon I'm even having to go through this.
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I think it was 4 years but my memory's terrible, it's been at least 3. She walked out to the pond to see how many fish I'd caught and stepped in a hole like spot. It's real rough on that end of the pond because I had a guy redig it and the excavator and it had sunk in and made it rough. It never leveled off good. If she had went around the other end, or just texted me on the phone, it wouldn't have happened. It was actually the small bone in the back of her calf, not the ankle.
I had a stress test done during this past year but instead of doing it on the tread mill they did it with an injection to get my heart rate up. With the problem in my leg I doubted I could do it on the tread mill.
Good luck.
I had a stress test done during this past year but instead of doing it on the tread mill they did it with an injection to get my heart rate up. With the problem in my leg I doubted I could do it on the tread mill.
Good luck.
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Yeah, well you're part of a growing club. So many things have changed in my life the last five years that I can't keep track anymore.
OK, I know two women who took a step wrong and broke and ankle. Now it's your wife. I wonder why that is.
Yeah, my last one was the chemical one. This time they want me on the treadmill. I take it all went well with your test?
OK, I know two women who took a step wrong and broke and ankle. Now it's your wife. I wonder why that is.
Yeah, my last one was the chemical one. This time they want me on the treadmill. I take it all went well with your test?
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