Joining the sick list

I just got a prescription from my HMO. They did it over the phone. Wow, last time I had a sinus infection it took forever before it was maybe bacterial rather than surely just viral. Well this time I did say I had yellow snot. Which I do what little actually comes out. The nurse also said I had refills for flonase so maybe I can get the nasal spray that will work but she probably doesn't know if the pharmacy is making substitutions or not. I need to be back on what I was before. The latest switch only seems to give my bloody noses, doing nothing to keep the chronic swelling down. Ugh I hate being sick and I knew that giving in to tears of frustration over P not feeding 1/2 the hay I meant to be fed while we were gone might push me into a full blown sinus infection; but I couldn't completely control them right away. I hope 3 lousy days of antibiotics will be sufficient, the nurse gave it because I had it before. That was my year of having a SI for several weeks. The usual SMZ equivalent didn't knock it so then they gave me what I think the nurse told me she prescribed now (Zethromax?? or something that sounds sort of like that) , which didn't work back then so then I had it again along with a steroid taper, had a few days of relief then relapse and then I went to acupuncture and chinese herb place rather than have NOTHING while waiting over 3 weeks for some fancy scan. The chinese herbs cleared up the remaining problem, scan showed clear --I did not cancel in case something came back again.

This time I will go to the acupuncture and herbs place as soon as I can get in if the 3day antibiotic doesn't clear things up. I hope I can get this licked quickly this time AND have another 5+ years before the next one. I am pretty diligent with preventatives and thought I had broken the cycle of having a SI every 1 or 2 years and had the trick(s) to preventing them. Hopefully I will not have them more than every 5-6 years anyways. I am having such a hard time focusing today and I am blaming the interrupted sleep and distracting, although not painful pressure I am feeling rather than vacation hangover etc. LOL, its good to at least have a good excuse.

grrrrr

P only fed the horses in the mornings! Why did dad even tell me this and upset me more?! And I am extra furious that dad is not a bit concerned himself about this. I SWEAR if I have to treat any of my horses for ulcers I am taking it out of their damn rent.

I ate too many almonds or something

So I'm not going to make it to the 9:30 talk at work. Oh well, its only brownie points. Ole is going to undo my chiro adjustment within a week if he doesn't get over wanting maximum contact all night soon. I didn't get any laser treatment from chiro, but knock wood I didn't get a sinus episode. Maybe what he did helped. I was worried all my teary angst over the horses would slide me into a full blown infection. Still could happen but hopefully I'll get lucky and dodge it. I better get out and finish chores. Its nice this morning and I should ride but with the cramps and too close to dire rear plus not expecting mild enough morning until tomorrow earliest I am not going to push it.

greeaaaattttt

I am trying to distract myself from my angst over the horses. Who are FINE, and when I'm ready to see the silver lining the weeds and brush pile reduction are good things.

But the progress I thought might be getting made wrt to people swallowing the MarxSpewMedia lies seems to have eroded. The GOP house does not seem like it is going to battle very hard to restore us to a constitutional republic. --in fairness the new people including tea party picks are not there yet, so all the go along get along stuff is the long time GOP people talking, but its still worrisome. Most worrisome is how many people do not seem to have wised up to the fact of the media providing free PR services for Obama and the Democrat party rather than reporting facts. Ugh.

Darn it

P has only been feeding my horses 1 bale a day instead of one bale per 2x/day feeding! I HATE THAT. The horses actually look OK anyway. These were heavy bales to make up for them not having grain and in case of cold weather WHICH THEY HAD, so they were getting about 65-70% usual hay rather than only 50% I would guess but it still makes me so upset I am tearing up. I didn't want them to have to eat every halfway edible weed and have the other group strip bark off half the entire pile of junk branches to get by I wanted them to be getting plenty of hay. I must get dad to communicate this to P as I am too upset. Stupid me only fed the horses 1/2 a feeding when I was showing him and told him *I* feed them the other 1/2 in a few hours. He only took in what he saw and spaced out what I told him. AUGHHHHHHHHHHH

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Told dad as I was leaving to get to my chiro appt that he needs to educate P or I WILL NOT join the MaahDaahHey trail ride trip. Not like I really want to waste a trail riding trip babysitting my annoying parents anyway but I am sure as hell not going unless DAD finds a decent farm/pet sitter and instructs him to not short MY horses. If I can't trust that I will have to take all 4 of mine to go anywhere. I WORK and should not have been the one trying to show P what to do anyway. I am still so pissed about the whole mess I am about ready to cut all ties to this stupid life and start over somewhere.

I think all the critters survived our trip

I didn't even check on Lady, Sadie and CJ. Grey is not 3 legged lame and Shade looked sound from a very quick peek. Mia was out of dog food and cleaned up a 2 cup serving and some veg oil so I gave her more. She didn't feel all skinny when she greeted us and I was hugging her so I don't think she was getting shorted too much. Her water bucket was full but GROSS. I spilled water on the snow on the front step getting it dumped out so I could swish her bucket out and get her some nice fresh water.

Ole feels like he gained a few lbs. He may have had stimulated appetite being outside during the days in the chilly fresh air. Boots missed us but his coat is sleek as ever.

Took yesterday off

Off from time with the parents that is. They went to Dickinson to visit some relatives and old friends. I needed a break from them. I cannot handle too much time with both of them together. Perhaps one reason I have not sought out a long term relationship. Other than being so socially clumsy. I had considered urging to head home early but a local friend of N's want to see us today so I'll have to settle for pushing for getting going at a decent hour. I am almost eager to get back to the office LOL.

I should resolve to do more development on my WY land this year. Its tempting to just focus on getting to endurance rides instead but OTOH if I get the land developed I will have someplace to retreat to. Found out from N that the oil royalties were not split up yet. Nov check had multiple months for one (set?) of wells. Dec check is for royalties up to Nov. 20 so I have to call the management outfit and find out if Jan check will be divided properly. And the checks are not going to amount to a medium income wage like I had thought when I didn't pay attention and realize the Nov check had back royalties added in. Perhaps a sign that I need to suck it up and stick with the job I have. Well at least I had better have something lined up to do before I quit in this P/R/O economy. I think the only thing worse than the communists is the muslims who seem to have a lot of the same notions of holding down individual industrious and excellence unless their 'church' has sanctioned it. It might be just because they are working with the commies to weaken the west but if they really have those notions plus the religious cloak its scary. Thoughts brought on by my vacation reading. The second 3 book set from the Sword of Truth series. Terry Goodkind does a good job of writing an interesting tale while still weaving in the realities of how horribly the communist type model of society works.