Day in the Life of a Sick Hobby Farmer

I had called in sick on Thursday to school and by noon on Thursday I was pretty much down for the count. Temperature, chills, shaking, glands so swollen I could barely swallow so I broke down and called the doctor. Six years ago my tonsils abcessed and I ended up in the hospital for 2 days, in April. The doctor reaffirmed that yes indeed my tonsils were ugly. No, kidding....why doesn't some doctor just say, "Take the damn things out". There's a thought. Well the strep test in-house came back negative as it always does for me (its a been there, done that) but they would culture it over night. She called in a prescription for Amoxi. Thursday night chores were so hard as I had NO ENERGY. I was exhausted, shaking, my ears hurt so bad because the glands were swollen, and I could barely swallow water at this point. 800mg of Ibuprofen every 4 hours was not even putting a dent into the pain. I called the sub-center for Friday cuz I knew I was not going to make it. Friday morning was another treat for doing chores. It took twice as long as I had to keep resting. My mom and Dad came over early afternoon to bring me some sherbet and noodle soup because why would I have that in my house. The doctor's office called to let me know that the culture came back positive for strep throat. How wonderful. So they called in Medrol to get the swelling down. Today is a much better day, not perfect, but I can swallow and move around, I sat on the lawn mower and cut grass knowing that my Mom would yell at me for doing so but the lawn was bad. But it was 85 degrees out:) Oh, I did forget to say my very sweet FWB went to TSC and got me some fencing and stakes and he put up a nice size area off the barn so I could put all the girls and the lambs in there and they still have excess into the barn without getting in the way of the large animals. All I had to do was stand and support the fence ( which was about all I could do on Friday evening) while he pounded in the stakes and secured them. It was so nice to see all the lambs running around outside in the sun today. His help was very appreciated yesterday.

My tulips started to blossom this week to add a touch a spring to the yard.

Oh, and on Thursday when I came home from the doctor's, I noticed this white head lying in the sun by one of the black ewe.....oh gosh. I was now a total wreck as soon as I realized who the Mom was. This black ewe was born last April and when she got sheared and I saw a very little udder I felt terrible. How could I have let that happen? I felt like the worst person in the world. And I worried that it was Jed., her sire. Well, obviously its not but I still feel terrible for letting this happen. But she had that little RAM LAMB (AGAIN) cleaned up and was doing very well. My panic is in that her udder is so small and I am worried if she will have enough milk. I didn't know if I should bottle feed him. He appears to be doing okay and does appear to be nursing though this is only day 3. He is so little, I am just unsure if I should do thing or just let nature take its course. This week has just been insane.

On a sunny note, I bought this globe stake that is "suppose" to glow at night when it is in the sun. Well, it was only $3.99 so even if it didn't, I thought it would still look pretty in the flower bed. Well, I pleased to tell you that as of 11:20 pm. it is glowing! Good buy!
So, this ends one hectic, stressful, sickly, too much too do, not enough time in the day, week.
Its gotta get better next week.................