Between packing for our trip to Nebraska, feeding the horses and dialyzing Hubby, the day was a pretty full one. Three days in a row of dialysis is hard on him, and he was feeling pretty light-headed by the end of the session, almost as bad as yesterday. I had trouble sticking his arterial for some reason, but then I changed the needle and it settled down for the rest of the session. Sometimes it just gives me a hard time, and I don’t really know what the trouble is. I’m still learning!
Archives for 2018
Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 – Watched A Lesson, Relaxed Today
Another good night sleep, though I’m still feeling a bit tired, not quite fully recovered from my near exhaustive state when we left home, but I’m working on it! By the time I fed the horses (with Rich being kind enough to taxi me around in a golf cart), Hubby was up, too. Cherryl was giving a lesson this morning, and we were both interested in watching her work, so we moseyed over and observed for the duration. Her student is a very sweet and beautiful 17 year old girl named Nina, who just got accepted at St. Leo’s college with a scholarship. We chatted with them both for a while, then Cherryl and Rich had to take a run to Tarpon Springs to pick up some parts for something. Hubby and I had a delightfully quiet afternoon just relaxing, dialyzing, me catching up on my Diary (which was LONG overdue) and doing a little work for our job next week. In other words, a lovely, typical day on the road!
Friday, Nov. 23, 2018 – Ride Day with Flash Up the Withlacoochie Trail
Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018 – Thanksgiving with the Mitchells
Had the chance to finally sleep a little late, the night temps are perfect sleeping and the days so beautiful, precisely why we came south this time of year! After a light leisurely breakfast, I mixed up a blender full of Yorkshire Pudding mix (my contribution to the Thanksgiving lamb dinner) and headed over to the big house for the afternoon. A day of great conversation, stories, food and wine, a wonderful time was had by all, exactly how Thanksgiving should be! Not to mention watching the Dog Show on TV (missed the Parade because we slept so late, though frankly I used to like to watch the parade, not the show stops in from of Macy’s, and that’s all they seem to broadcast anymore, so we didn’t miss much), and generally had a grand time before heading back to our little “cabin” just after dark.
Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018 – Shopping and Dialyzing
Today was all about doing some shopping and getting Hubby dialyzed. We made several stops for a variety of things, finally filling up with diesel (at the remarkably low price of $2.99/gallon!) Got back to the farm, and got Hubby all hooked up, had a fabulous dialysis session with a great arterial rate, which we’ve been having a bit of trouble with, and hardly any alarms! Yeah! Had a relaxing evening watching a movie, and an early night to bed!
Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018 – Travel Day to Richer Farms, with Belt Blowout
Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018 – Ride Day With Nancy
While feeding the horses this morning I got into a chat with the group that had been camping next to the covered stalls, and in particular, a woman named Nancy who also has a Paso Fino. She invited me to ride with her, but I told her I’d have to see how Hubby was feeling this morning, in case he felt up to riding. Generous Hubby said, by all means, take a ride with another Paso Fino person and see what happens, so that’s what I did. Flash was calm for about the first half mile, then after that he started getting really fussy, jumping and pulling, at times he literally was cantering in place! Not sure what got into him, except maybe he wanted to move out more, but Nancy was working on teaching her horse to just walk quietly, so I didn’t want to interfere with that. There were a couple of times I let him run, though, but evidently not enough, because he kept prancing almost all the rest of the time. What a workout! Flash worked up quite a sweat, too! We were out for nearly two hours, so it was a good workout for everyone. Nancy was pleased her horse stayed calm through Flash’s histrionics, even bumping into her a couple of times. Crazy horse, don’t know what got into him, he was perfect last week! Anyway, got him put away, then spent the rest of the afternoon dialyzing Hubby before settling in for the evening.
Friday, Nov. 16, 2018 – Cold Morning Followed By a Shopping Day
Last night, I put one too many electrical appliances on and set the circuit breaker off. Unfortunately, there aren’t individual breakers on the box that I was plugged into, which is the typical setup, and it was too dark to go looking for the breaker, so we just took it as a sign to go to bed. Since we didn’t have the electric fireplace to keep us warm, I turned on the gas furnace. Naturally, we ran out of propane halfway through the night, and, of course, it was the coldest night of our entire stay, close to freezing, so it was a chilly start to the day! Took the opportunity this morning to run up to Valdosta to do some shopping, though we forgot to take the propane tanks with us to refill, so grateful we have four LP tanks on this trailer! Did our running around, then got back to camp in time to dialyze, and that was it for the day, other than taking care of the horses, of course!