I'm confused....really confused. I Know that getting older isn't much fun and I've heard it said that " the golden years aint what they are cracked up to be". I had resolved to grow old gracefully and I'm REALLY trying but I'm confused today! Several weeks ago I was having lower back "issues", not suprising with the life we lead so I toddled off down to my magic doctor, Dave my Chiropractor in Key Centre. Dave pummels and pounds, prods and pokes gives me a bear hug or 3 and it's all good, just like that...usually. This time my lower back / hip area held out, it ignored all Daves efforts and an xray didn't show anything so I determined to live with it and stop moaning. Sadly, my back didn't just go away and things got worse, a lot worse. Off I went to Urgent Care, came back with another XRay, healthy back, not a 26 year olds back, a 56 year old back but a good one and 3 days worth of pain killers. Back issue still wasn't going to go away, back issue got a lot worse and off I toddled with said Xray to my doctor. Not good news, my doctors associate took a quick look at my xray and told me that I had arthritus. DOH, not good news but it gave me a name for my issues and I hadn't been complaining about nothing. The anti inflamatories work, the pain killers work and I was a happy farmer again....till yesterday. I had a "follow up" appointment which turned into a not follow up appointment. My real doctor (not the associate) took a quick look at the offending Xray and said "good picture"...except for the arthritus eh ?...NO arthritus ? Doctor took another look..."no arthritus" ...but the other doctor said I have arthritus and the medication works....."there is NO arthritus" So, it's good news, I don't have arthritus, but it's bad news 'cause I'm back to where I was before I had the arthritus that I now dont have. Now you know why I'm confused and tomorrow I'm off to have another blast of radiation in the form of an MRI scan to see what is going on...and hopefully where my arthritus went !!!
Fortunately, down at the barn medical issues are less confusing, Lamb Chop is recovering well from his not so minor surgery ( castration) in fact apart from the dramatic change of appearance in poor Lamb Chops nether region ( very shrunken) you would never know he had been "done". He was restored to his 3 Amigo status and is back with Macho and Daisy who missed him while he was in the hospital wing. Gimpy the sheep with a limp isn't limping anymore so the work Greg and Tom ( our Wwoofer volunteer) did on her owie really helped.
Jodie, our other Wwoofer was almost invisible yesterday as she replanted the raspberry canes in their newly appointed location. The trench she had dug was almost as deep as she was high and all afternoon she buried those canes like something posessed. The garden is looking great.....and if anyone needs healthy raspberry canes really cheap we have LOTS to sell.
Time to move this aching old body..that doesn't have arthritus and get ready to go down for another day. Thanks to both our Wwoofer friends, it's fun having you around. Take care. M
Fortunately, down at the barn medical issues are less confusing, Lamb Chop is recovering well from his not so minor surgery ( castration) in fact apart from the dramatic change of appearance in poor Lamb Chops nether region ( very shrunken) you would never know he had been "done". He was restored to his 3 Amigo status and is back with Macho and Daisy who missed him while he was in the hospital wing. Gimpy the sheep with a limp isn't limping anymore so the work Greg and Tom ( our Wwoofer volunteer) did on her owie really helped.
Jodie, our other Wwoofer was almost invisible yesterday as she replanted the raspberry canes in their newly appointed location. The trench she had dug was almost as deep as she was high and all afternoon she buried those canes like something posessed. The garden is looking great.....and if anyone needs healthy raspberry canes really cheap we have LOTS to sell.
Time to move this aching old body..that doesn't have arthritus and get ready to go down for another day. Thanks to both our Wwoofer friends, it's fun having you around. Take care. M
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