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Published On: Sep 08, 2007 11:33 PM
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Published On: Sep 08, 2007 11:33 PM
News From the Front
Sick Day...
Georgia is mid-yoghurt, playing with her spoon and
BobtheBub (the name given to her strange sun toy) and Ripley is attempting to
assist in baby clean up. There is officially no. dirty. laundry. That makes me
feel very accomplished. The following scene is occurring because when Georgia
woke up this am, she had a 100 degree fever along with her cough and congestion.
I drove into school, left plans, then came home so E could get to court on time.
I'm glad we only have three months left in the school year, and that one week next month is spring break, since I've used so many of my sick days (we have ten per year total for sick/personal/etc.) E can stay home with the baby in a pinch, especially if he has a day without any cases, but I dread the day I'm too sick to go in. Georgia and I had an appointment with the doctor this afternoon, and she was pronounced relatively healthy, just snotty and cranky. Every time she starts coughing like this I'm petrified she'll wind up back in the hospital, though I know they said RSV can linger, rearing it's head again and again. She's nursing and just ate quite a bit for lunch so at least she's not about to get dehydrated.
Outside, things are looking better - no new dead chickens, and the injured hen in the cat carrier actually seems to be perking up - she was sitting up normally this am, and it looks like she drank the water E gave her, so I moved her into a cordoned off area of the barn to recover a bit more. It remains to be seen if her eye is gone or was just swollen shut, we'll have to wait and see. She still has way to many open wounds for me to trust the other hens around her, cannibals that they can be. One surprising turn of events occurred this am, when Georgia and I went out to feed the pigs- it's a scrap day, and they both usually love that, hustling out to their food dishes. Chalmers was asleep outside in the sun, but Alice... No Alice! How does a 250 pound half blind pig disappear? Honestly, I thought some kids had stolen her as a prank, but after a few minutes of calling her, she trundled up to us from the far end of the field. Im not sure how I would have caught her with the baby strapped to me, so I was happy that she wanted to go back inside her pen of her own accord. I'm not sure if the gate wasn't closed or she got under the fence, but I couldn't find any spots that looked pig-sized where she might have escaped, so I'm guessing it was the latch on the gate. We'll see if she stays in now.
We cancelled our tv service recently except for basic reception, which you need a cable connection for out here, and though we don't miss much, I have on the public television's cooking shows right now, and - yuck. Maybe the poor camera quality, maybe the less then skilled hosts, but they don't make much look appetizing! :) OK, back to baby duty!
p.s. We went to see Margaret Cho at UPenn for a performance/Q & A session and it was great! :)
I'm glad we only have three months left in the school year, and that one week next month is spring break, since I've used so many of my sick days (we have ten per year total for sick/personal/etc.) E can stay home with the baby in a pinch, especially if he has a day without any cases, but I dread the day I'm too sick to go in. Georgia and I had an appointment with the doctor this afternoon, and she was pronounced relatively healthy, just snotty and cranky. Every time she starts coughing like this I'm petrified she'll wind up back in the hospital, though I know they said RSV can linger, rearing it's head again and again. She's nursing and just ate quite a bit for lunch so at least she's not about to get dehydrated.
Outside, things are looking better - no new dead chickens, and the injured hen in the cat carrier actually seems to be perking up - she was sitting up normally this am, and it looks like she drank the water E gave her, so I moved her into a cordoned off area of the barn to recover a bit more. It remains to be seen if her eye is gone or was just swollen shut, we'll have to wait and see. She still has way to many open wounds for me to trust the other hens around her, cannibals that they can be. One surprising turn of events occurred this am, when Georgia and I went out to feed the pigs- it's a scrap day, and they both usually love that, hustling out to their food dishes. Chalmers was asleep outside in the sun, but Alice... No Alice! How does a 250 pound half blind pig disappear? Honestly, I thought some kids had stolen her as a prank, but after a few minutes of calling her, she trundled up to us from the far end of the field. Im not sure how I would have caught her with the baby strapped to me, so I was happy that she wanted to go back inside her pen of her own accord. I'm not sure if the gate wasn't closed or she got under the fence, but I couldn't find any spots that looked pig-sized where she might have escaped, so I'm guessing it was the latch on the gate. We'll see if she stays in now.
We cancelled our tv service recently except for basic reception, which you need a cable connection for out here, and though we don't miss much, I have on the public television's cooking shows right now, and - yuck. Maybe the poor camera quality, maybe the less then skilled hosts, but they don't make much look appetizing! :) OK, back to baby duty!
p.s. We went to see Margaret Cho at UPenn for a performance/Q & A session and it was great! :)
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Posted: Tue - March 21, 2006 at 02:22 PM