We were surprised when no other campers showed up yesterday, thinking if anyone was getting Independence Day off they’s be heading out here yesterday, so we were half-convinced we’d have the place entirely to ourselves for the rest of the week, but alas, it was not to be so. Several trailers showed up today, parking a few slots out on either side of us, one for one night and the other for an unknown amount of time. One fellow gave me a couple of pesticide-infused bovine ear tags that he said was good for horses, too, and suggested I zip-tie them to my horses’ halters. I have to admit, the flies here are pretty bad, I killed several huge green-headed horse flies on Apollo this morning. I did as he suggested, and it seemed to work pretty well, though of course, I had put fly spray on them as well, so it’s hard to say which worked better, or if it was the combination of them both. In any event, we had a fairly quiet morning, then it came time for dialysis, and we had a lot of trouble today. I had trouble getting the needles in, probably because when they declotted it yesterday it shifted a little, so it took me a while to get that right. Then throughout the session, we kept getting errors, then Hubby started getting really dizzy and light-headed, and we had trouble getting his blood pressure to register on any of the monitors we had, and he even started going blind at one point, which we know is a sign of seriously low blood pressure. I gave him saline several times, but finally, we just decided to stop the session, he just couldn’t take it any more. Once he was off, he finally started feeling better, but not much. We managed to get him out to his chair in the screen room, and once he was able to get his feet higher he started to recover. Scary moment, that one! I think it may be partly due to the heat (it’s in the 90’s), but we’ve been running the a/c off the generator and that’s been doing okay. Once outside, I directed a fan directly on him and he improved, thank goodness. Too darn hot! That’s the one main problem at this campground, we’re surrounded by a forest, but there’s not a single bit of shade in the campground. I’ve found that to be the case in most Kentucky public campgrounds, they just come in and bulldoze everything, not leaving any shade for horse or human. Very poor thinking on the powers-that-be in this state. This will undoubtedly be a great campground in spring or fall, but summer is just incredibly hot when there’s not a lick of shade. My outdoor thermometer has been reading nearly 100 degrees every day, even though the forecast has only been calling for upper 80’s. What a difference some shade would make! Anyway, we finally settled down for a short evening, as it’s already later than usual with all the problems we had today, ready for bed!
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