Wash your whites separately. Racist.
This is the first time since I’ve been home that I felt psuedo comfortable navigating the stairs. I almost fell three times… twice on the stairs and once in the shower. My dad had three new puppies when I arrived at his ranch home last week. Buddy the Blue Healer and the two Australian Shepherds, Java (not pictured) and Freckles (below). They were absolutely adoarable. I’m a sucker for puppies.
My main goal for the weekend was to just visit my father and relax away from the city, but I took my friend Ed, and I know he loves to photograph deer, so we spend some time in the woods. We were always on different parts of the ranch and I think he ended up seeing more animals than me, but it wasn’t that big a deal to me anyway, so meh. My dad has White Tail (including a few trophey sized… note: I am strongly against sport hunting), Black Buck, Axis, Fallow, and Sika. The Axis bucks are great to photograph, but I didn’t see any this trip. When EL and I were first out there, I snapped this one waking from a nap. I dug around on my old harddrive for a while and couldn’t find the orginal image. I must have deleted it. Anyhoo, here are a few of the random shots from the weekend (including a few IR shots for Miranda).
If you have a Flickr account, you can see them at 1000 pixels on the longest side. I’m just too weak and lazy right now to post them another way. Sorry.
My fever is relatively steady “low grade” and I’m not shivering non-stop. My body hurts all over… bad. Night before last I took and OTC sleeping aid and it did nothing to help me get rest. Last night I took an Ambien CR and it did nothing. I am taking sleep where I can get it… 15 to 45 minutes at a time. If I can get a solid 6 to 8 hours in one of these night, I think I can whoop this Ebola. We’ll see what tomorrow brings. Right now, my biggest discomfort is the incredible hit and miss abdominal pains from what I can only assume to be gas associate with this stomach flu from hell. I’ll let you know if you can actually OD on Gas-X.
If somebody can get it to you, and if you can keep it down for any length of time, get some Acidophilus into your system, quick. It should help set your guts to rights somewhat, and restore the balance of healthy intestinal flora that’s been bled out via your backside.
Glutamine powder is a wonder when you’re sick like this, too. True story....little-known, but true.
Pictures are awesome,as usual.
Ambien CR didn’t work for you? Is it the 6.25 or 12.5? I took the 6.25 first and it did nothing so they changed it to 12.5 and now it works… if I FORCE myself to go to bed within about 20 minutes of taking it. If you fight it, it’s not so great.
Hope you feel better soon.
12.5 mg
They were EL’s. I’ve used them before with no problem… it’s just because I’m so sick that I couldn’t sleep.
Sometime this evening, I think things took a turn in the illness camp. If I can fight off fever tonight, I think tomorrow I should be on the up and up.
Awe @ puppies and YAY @ IR! hehe
I’m glad you’re (hopefully) on your way to wellness. I can’t remember when I’ve had a fever over 100 in the last 20 years. It semi freaks me out whenever someone else gets that way because they sound sooooo bad that I’m afraid it’s worse than it probably really is. But you’re right (from your comment in the previous post), being a bubble boy/girl is not the way to go. I certainly wasn’t one growing up and probably sucked on my fair share of pennies (I know I made mud pies!). We rarely ever went to the doctor for a sickness unless it was for an unexplainable high grade fever (probably more because of money than worry, but there you have it, lol). Perhaps that’s why I’ve been lucky enough to not get sick often and not severely when I do.
Anywho, I hope you’re feeling much better today. Have a good one!
Puppies! There’s nothing cuter than a long-on-the-play, short-on-the-grace pack o’ puppies. They’re beautiful.
I hope you’re on your way to wellness, and soon. It sounds miserable, this thing that has you in its grips.
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