Saturday, March 3, 2012
March/April 2012 Countryside magazine posted.
Good Morning Everyone,
I first want to say that I hope and pray that everyone who reads here, or visits and lives east of me, I hope that you are ok from the storms that have passed through. Tornadoes are a force that cannot be reasoned with or avoided, they are just here. We deal with them here and I will say, I have been through some that have made me quite paranoid, to say the least. I do hope that everyone is ok.
A few posts back, I talked about the article from the Countryside Magazine, about chicken crimes. Well, the March/April 2012 magazine is posted on the website to read. So if you want, please go to: http://www.countrysidemag.com/ and scroll down to Chicken Crimes listed and read. There are lots of other articles to read also.
On the home front here. My mesclun lettuces are up, and a few head lettuces. Out at Mernards ( a type of home depot for us), had seeds on sale, so I went out to get another cheap seed starting kit with a heat mat to start my tomatoes and peppers, my heat lovers, and get them going. It is supposed to warm up Monday and Tuesday, and I can move the pots from their icy spots and plan on moving a few pots around to the south side and cover them with plastic and get them ready. When I was in the check-out, quite a few people were questioning my purchases as to why I am doing this seed starting work and the old "its too early" my dear to be gardening. Being in tune with people's attitudes and just a general presence of people in general, I find that people are borderline demented, these people, were not nice in the approach of gardening, it was a sense of why you garden is just plain stupid, period. And if you garden, you are one of those "preppers", arent' you, which one person asked me directly. I figured since NatGeo started that series, there would be some issues, even here. I just calmly mentioned, I garden because I like to, and it is calming to me, and left it at that. After a few minutes in the line, the conversation was still uneasy, and very ill tempered about how stupid it is to garden, and a waste of time in these people's eyes, just on the simple fact I was buying a few seeds and a seed starting mat. When I got home, I was still reeling about the people at the store, and somehow that little trip was an eye opener as to people's attitudes of the going's on in our community and the country in general. People are angry, which they should be, but the anger is being directed to the wrong people, to innocent people who just like to do things and then someone comes along and makes a political statement out of it as to why I am doing something, and tries to get a fight out of you for doing it, or make you a criminal for what you do it for.
My trees are showing more budding out. I go out to tell them they had better keep their "pants" on, as its too early yet to show the world what you have. I am afraid, when we get those couple of days next week in the 60's and 70's, they will really try to pop out and then get frozen in a last of the season blizzard, which we usually get. But there is not much I can do about it except just let nature do its thing, Mother Nature knows her children well.
My sourdough batter is happy, and if I can get to it, I am going to try to make pancakes Sunday. I'm not going to get to it this morning. This batter seemed to work pretty good, not sure why, so I guess I am doing something right.
Well, I had better get off my duff and get to work. I have so much to do around the house, I just don't know even where to start, so I will just tackle the kitchen and work my way out.
I wish everyone a wonderful weekend, and peaceful weather hopefully to all.
PS:
I found that I was able to post the article from Countryside Magazine to my blog. So it is available to read.
I also found an article about sourdough from Countryside, so enjoy reading. I am currently stonewalled as to what to write about. Not much going on except the bills..... So enjoy the articles.
Hugs
I first want to say that I hope and pray that everyone who reads here, or visits and lives east of me, I hope that you are ok from the storms that have passed through. Tornadoes are a force that cannot be reasoned with or avoided, they are just here. We deal with them here and I will say, I have been through some that have made me quite paranoid, to say the least. I do hope that everyone is ok.
A few posts back, I talked about the article from the Countryside Magazine, about chicken crimes. Well, the March/April 2012 magazine is posted on the website to read. So if you want, please go to: http://www.countrysidemag.com/ and scroll down to Chicken Crimes listed and read. There are lots of other articles to read also.
On the home front here. My mesclun lettuces are up, and a few head lettuces. Out at Mernards ( a type of home depot for us), had seeds on sale, so I went out to get another cheap seed starting kit with a heat mat to start my tomatoes and peppers, my heat lovers, and get them going. It is supposed to warm up Monday and Tuesday, and I can move the pots from their icy spots and plan on moving a few pots around to the south side and cover them with plastic and get them ready. When I was in the check-out, quite a few people were questioning my purchases as to why I am doing this seed starting work and the old "its too early" my dear to be gardening. Being in tune with people's attitudes and just a general presence of people in general, I find that people are borderline demented, these people, were not nice in the approach of gardening, it was a sense of why you garden is just plain stupid, period. And if you garden, you are one of those "preppers", arent' you, which one person asked me directly. I figured since NatGeo started that series, there would be some issues, even here. I just calmly mentioned, I garden because I like to, and it is calming to me, and left it at that. After a few minutes in the line, the conversation was still uneasy, and very ill tempered about how stupid it is to garden, and a waste of time in these people's eyes, just on the simple fact I was buying a few seeds and a seed starting mat. When I got home, I was still reeling about the people at the store, and somehow that little trip was an eye opener as to people's attitudes of the going's on in our community and the country in general. People are angry, which they should be, but the anger is being directed to the wrong people, to innocent people who just like to do things and then someone comes along and makes a political statement out of it as to why I am doing something, and tries to get a fight out of you for doing it, or make you a criminal for what you do it for.
My trees are showing more budding out. I go out to tell them they had better keep their "pants" on, as its too early yet to show the world what you have. I am afraid, when we get those couple of days next week in the 60's and 70's, they will really try to pop out and then get frozen in a last of the season blizzard, which we usually get. But there is not much I can do about it except just let nature do its thing, Mother Nature knows her children well.
My sourdough batter is happy, and if I can get to it, I am going to try to make pancakes Sunday. I'm not going to get to it this morning. This batter seemed to work pretty good, not sure why, so I guess I am doing something right.
Well, I had better get off my duff and get to work. I have so much to do around the house, I just don't know even where to start, so I will just tackle the kitchen and work my way out.
I wish everyone a wonderful weekend, and peaceful weather hopefully to all.
PS:
I found that I was able to post the article from Countryside Magazine to my blog. So it is available to read.
I also found an article about sourdough from Countryside, so enjoy reading. I am currently stonewalled as to what to write about. Not much going on except the bills..... So enjoy the articles.
Hugs
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Some Hope
Good Afternoon, friends,
I have been working in the kitchen today. It is a true federal disaster with all that has been going on here and me not having time to tackle anything.
Personally for me, to try to de-stress myself, I have been playing around with starting some sourdough starter, just so I can let my mind just be a child again. I need to play. I have the kitchen windows open, it is very windy here, with a little bite in the air, but I am getting spring fever. As I was mixing my starter up, I heard the familiar calling of Sandhills cranes and they sounded very close, so I went outside for a little while to hear the heralding of spring to my ears, the cranes. The cranes have been here earlier than normal, some toward the end of January and the first week of February, but now they are landing by the North Platte river, which I am about a mile away from it. So the cranes are landing in the corn fields and stubble fields by good ol' Buffalo Bill's ranch house. For some reason, I had a smile on my face, a hope that spring and gardening is not too far off. Even though we have not had a bad winter here at all, it still seems long, and tiring, and just aching for a new start. I want to get outside so bad and try to work, but its still not quite there yet.
Like everyone else, and I'm sure all of my readers, money is so very tight, and it seems things are going up and getting even more money from you to even put meals on the table. I am so very glad, even elated, all of the hot, hard work of canning that I did, was so worth it. I am fixing chili for dinner and I just had to open jars, and place in the crock pot and then some corn bread, and ta-da, dinner. Most everything I used, except the hamburger and corn meal, was from my hands and my garden. My chili powder was from my pepper mixes I dried and ground myself. Some of it a little bitey, but good. It dawned on me, my efforts of canning and dehydrating and being somewhat more self sufficient has come about, even more so the last few years. I really didn't give it much thought, I was just putting things away and then I seen "what" I did, and it made sense.
I have been working on my seed list for this year. I now have a good idea what I use and how much. I am planning for more seeds, and a few more transplants grown as I will have failures like last year. I do not know what kind of a year we will have here, but I am expanding to include a few different peppers for drying and mixes, and a few beans to try, and something to just have some fun with. I am now a little more confident, even though I have gardened for a number of years, I am now gardening more and have goals and for a purpose of feeding myself and several other people and selling my herbs for some extra income. It is more of an urgent need now, and even so more as the grocery is getting beyond my costs now. Now its goals and needs instead of hobby and just for fun.
Well, I'd better scat into the kitchen and start my cornbread. And I may go outside for a little bit and take a cup of tea, and sit in the sun, just to enjoy the rest of the day. I wish a wonderful up coming week to all and hopes for more spring calling cards.
Hang on, Spring's almost here.
Hugs to All
I have been working in the kitchen today. It is a true federal disaster with all that has been going on here and me not having time to tackle anything.
Personally for me, to try to de-stress myself, I have been playing around with starting some sourdough starter, just so I can let my mind just be a child again. I need to play. I have the kitchen windows open, it is very windy here, with a little bite in the air, but I am getting spring fever. As I was mixing my starter up, I heard the familiar calling of Sandhills cranes and they sounded very close, so I went outside for a little while to hear the heralding of spring to my ears, the cranes. The cranes have been here earlier than normal, some toward the end of January and the first week of February, but now they are landing by the North Platte river, which I am about a mile away from it. So the cranes are landing in the corn fields and stubble fields by good ol' Buffalo Bill's ranch house. For some reason, I had a smile on my face, a hope that spring and gardening is not too far off. Even though we have not had a bad winter here at all, it still seems long, and tiring, and just aching for a new start. I want to get outside so bad and try to work, but its still not quite there yet.
Like everyone else, and I'm sure all of my readers, money is so very tight, and it seems things are going up and getting even more money from you to even put meals on the table. I am so very glad, even elated, all of the hot, hard work of canning that I did, was so worth it. I am fixing chili for dinner and I just had to open jars, and place in the crock pot and then some corn bread, and ta-da, dinner. Most everything I used, except the hamburger and corn meal, was from my hands and my garden. My chili powder was from my pepper mixes I dried and ground myself. Some of it a little bitey, but good. It dawned on me, my efforts of canning and dehydrating and being somewhat more self sufficient has come about, even more so the last few years. I really didn't give it much thought, I was just putting things away and then I seen "what" I did, and it made sense.
I have been working on my seed list for this year. I now have a good idea what I use and how much. I am planning for more seeds, and a few more transplants grown as I will have failures like last year. I do not know what kind of a year we will have here, but I am expanding to include a few different peppers for drying and mixes, and a few beans to try, and something to just have some fun with. I am now a little more confident, even though I have gardened for a number of years, I am now gardening more and have goals and for a purpose of feeding myself and several other people and selling my herbs for some extra income. It is more of an urgent need now, and even so more as the grocery is getting beyond my costs now. Now its goals and needs instead of hobby and just for fun.
Well, I'd better scat into the kitchen and start my cornbread. And I may go outside for a little bit and take a cup of tea, and sit in the sun, just to enjoy the rest of the day. I wish a wonderful up coming week to all and hopes for more spring calling cards.
Hang on, Spring's almost here.
Hugs to All
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Good Morning Everyone,
Well, I am waiting for an email from the Countryside magazine to get back to me to see if I can use their article or talk about this on my blog on this new rule that the USDA is wanting to implement on poultry and flock owners. It is a very lengthy article that the author wrote about this upcoming plan. It goes abbreviated as APHIS. Go to http://www.usda.gov/ and there is information on it there, but its the gov's web site.
In what I have read, it is supposed to trace disease, both in livestock and poultry, but they are not real clear about any particular disease or anything else, but I am reading it as a control factor to find out who has poultry, from large poultry operations to the small homestead/backyard flock. From the way it reads, backyard flock owners will have to have chicks banded and when ordering chicks and they have to register their chicks and flocks, the same thing as the animal id that the USDA wanted all farms and ranches to do to id livestock, which was pulled. That did not go well here in my state, and so this looks similar to the second coming of the same cavalry.
I would like to reprint this article, but I am seeking permission first, or if not, I am trying to find out when Countryside magazine will post their new March/April 2012 issue up on their website and you can read it from there, which may be better. The magazine website is: http://www.countrysidemag.com/
This is just another ploy to get money from the citizens and more control about what you are growing in your backyard, and how much you have, to eventually say that you have no right to local, fresh food, eggs, or what you put in your mouth. The PTB's (powers that be) will tell you what to put in your mouth, and how and by how much. This will affect everyone who has poultry from the farm to the suburbs and where ever. Now whether we can back them down like the last animal id ruling, is another story.
If you all have time, please look this up or research it. I contacted my farm bureau agent, and he hadn't even hear of it mentioned, in which I told he, well, I mentioned it, now he needs to look into it.
I am in the process of writing my representatvies, which I don't think does any good, but I am going to complain anyway. It seems that now all we have now are controls to tell you that you are an idiot and cannot run your life, that you do not know any better, but the government know everything on how to take care of you and what is good for you.
I am hoping to hear from the magazine, so I can get this out.
On the homefront, its calmed down. It snowed and rained a little here yesterday, the wind blew hard, and it acted like a some-what spring day, Some of my lettuces are up, and onions, but the rest, I think the seeds are old and did not germinate. I used the seedling mat, and it, for me works well as I really don't have a dedicated room for seeds and plants. I keep it a little cool in the house and it nice when I can get plants up and not put them on top of the hot water heater, and then I forget they are there, and then they are leggy and die.
I need to do a few errands today, so I will blog later.
Hugs to all.
Well, I am waiting for an email from the Countryside magazine to get back to me to see if I can use their article or talk about this on my blog on this new rule that the USDA is wanting to implement on poultry and flock owners. It is a very lengthy article that the author wrote about this upcoming plan. It goes abbreviated as APHIS. Go to http://www.usda.gov/ and there is information on it there, but its the gov's web site.
In what I have read, it is supposed to trace disease, both in livestock and poultry, but they are not real clear about any particular disease or anything else, but I am reading it as a control factor to find out who has poultry, from large poultry operations to the small homestead/backyard flock. From the way it reads, backyard flock owners will have to have chicks banded and when ordering chicks and they have to register their chicks and flocks, the same thing as the animal id that the USDA wanted all farms and ranches to do to id livestock, which was pulled. That did not go well here in my state, and so this looks similar to the second coming of the same cavalry.
I would like to reprint this article, but I am seeking permission first, or if not, I am trying to find out when Countryside magazine will post their new March/April 2012 issue up on their website and you can read it from there, which may be better. The magazine website is: http://www.countrysidemag.com/
This is just another ploy to get money from the citizens and more control about what you are growing in your backyard, and how much you have, to eventually say that you have no right to local, fresh food, eggs, or what you put in your mouth. The PTB's (powers that be) will tell you what to put in your mouth, and how and by how much. This will affect everyone who has poultry from the farm to the suburbs and where ever. Now whether we can back them down like the last animal id ruling, is another story.
If you all have time, please look this up or research it. I contacted my farm bureau agent, and he hadn't even hear of it mentioned, in which I told he, well, I mentioned it, now he needs to look into it.
I am in the process of writing my representatvies, which I don't think does any good, but I am going to complain anyway. It seems that now all we have now are controls to tell you that you are an idiot and cannot run your life, that you do not know any better, but the government know everything on how to take care of you and what is good for you.
I am hoping to hear from the magazine, so I can get this out.
On the homefront, its calmed down. It snowed and rained a little here yesterday, the wind blew hard, and it acted like a some-what spring day, Some of my lettuces are up, and onions, but the rest, I think the seeds are old and did not germinate. I used the seedling mat, and it, for me works well as I really don't have a dedicated room for seeds and plants. I keep it a little cool in the house and it nice when I can get plants up and not put them on top of the hot water heater, and then I forget they are there, and then they are leggy and die.
I need to do a few errands today, so I will blog later.
Hugs to all.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Update
Good Morning Everyone,
Everything is somewhat quiet here. As far as I can go and have been getting information on, the fiasco with the doctor's office and my parents has been cleared up at the expense of the doctor's billing department. Seems billing did not submit something to my parents Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurance plan from several years ago, and all because of this, it led to a almost tragic ending. My parents are on Medicare. They also carry and have carried a huge multi million dollar catastrophic health and hospital plan that they have had for years. This plan they pay out of their Social Security and have done so for many years. It pretty much takes care of almost all of the medical bills. This is something that they did so they would not put burdens on me if something happened. But something almost did happen, when my mother's blood pressure was 194/80, and was at stroke level, and a small bill made the decision to not fill prescriptions, which, as my attorney told me would of led to a law suit on the doctor's part and a mistake on his billing department. My attorney also told me, Nebraska has laws in place for elderly about having medicines and prescriptions being withheld, another no-no. So needless to say, it is sad that when your life is handled by someone who did not submit bills right, that it changes many things. The billing supervisor was fired, which is sad, but I am hoping that this maybe will bring changes so it does not happen to someone else's loved one. Needless to say, my mother is showing signs of damage from no meds and this is something now that the attorney is looking into, and now leaves me in more position to handle my parents affairs more than ever now, which I did not want to do until absolutely necessary, but now it looks that I will be handling all manners of bills, paperwork and medicals issues, I do it with absolutely no hesitation, but because of this fiasco, it has changed my mother and the way I look at people, and everyday issues that others do. This has now put me in a total no trust position with others, and on top of the issues with D's work comp attorney, compromising medical issues with his disability, and more worried about how much he (the attorney) would be getting in money to have the fancy lifestyle he wants instead of worrying about D's disability and future medical issues down the road has really changed me I fear for the worst. I was cautious before, now I am a total no trust person, period.
The only thing that I am doing is just taking each day as it comes now. That is all I can do. I also have health issues, but my attorney who I have had for years, is the only one I DO trust, and he has been a great help to me in getting things lined up and simplified so I can handle things even when I am not doing so good. My attorney has even contacted the idiot owner of the park, where I live, who was starting up problems again, just to start something, and told him to totally cease and desist as I have enough on my plate to handle without having their juvenile behaviors being inserted into something that they have no grounds to have issues with me anyway. So its been quiet and I just handle my day as it comes.
I am working on a post for my herb blog and should have that up sometime on the weekend. I am still reading the article on the new restrictions that are planning on being implemented for poultry, as it is a large article, and has many facets to it. When I post about it, I want to be sure what and how it reads, as from what I am reading, will try to stop people from having backyard flocks, or it could be used to stop backyard flocks. If anyone who reads this blog, knows anything about this, email me and let me know. This is just starting to come out and I am not sure how many people know about it.
Well, I need to disappear for a while, I have to pick up a few legal papers and do some running. I do want to take the time to say I am sorry that I have vented here. And if I have lost readership, then I guess, so be it. But what happened to me can happen to others by sheer mistakes that can cost someone a life or a serious change in someones life, which to me is unacceptable. I know mistakes are made, but some are costly when a life is in the middle of it. Again, I am sorry I have vented and ranted.
I wish everyone a wonderful, peaceful weekend. I will post later.
Hugs
Everything is somewhat quiet here. As far as I can go and have been getting information on, the fiasco with the doctor's office and my parents has been cleared up at the expense of the doctor's billing department. Seems billing did not submit something to my parents Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurance plan from several years ago, and all because of this, it led to a almost tragic ending. My parents are on Medicare. They also carry and have carried a huge multi million dollar catastrophic health and hospital plan that they have had for years. This plan they pay out of their Social Security and have done so for many years. It pretty much takes care of almost all of the medical bills. This is something that they did so they would not put burdens on me if something happened. But something almost did happen, when my mother's blood pressure was 194/80, and was at stroke level, and a small bill made the decision to not fill prescriptions, which, as my attorney told me would of led to a law suit on the doctor's part and a mistake on his billing department. My attorney also told me, Nebraska has laws in place for elderly about having medicines and prescriptions being withheld, another no-no. So needless to say, it is sad that when your life is handled by someone who did not submit bills right, that it changes many things. The billing supervisor was fired, which is sad, but I am hoping that this maybe will bring changes so it does not happen to someone else's loved one. Needless to say, my mother is showing signs of damage from no meds and this is something now that the attorney is looking into, and now leaves me in more position to handle my parents affairs more than ever now, which I did not want to do until absolutely necessary, but now it looks that I will be handling all manners of bills, paperwork and medicals issues, I do it with absolutely no hesitation, but because of this fiasco, it has changed my mother and the way I look at people, and everyday issues that others do. This has now put me in a total no trust position with others, and on top of the issues with D's work comp attorney, compromising medical issues with his disability, and more worried about how much he (the attorney) would be getting in money to have the fancy lifestyle he wants instead of worrying about D's disability and future medical issues down the road has really changed me I fear for the worst. I was cautious before, now I am a total no trust person, period.
The only thing that I am doing is just taking each day as it comes now. That is all I can do. I also have health issues, but my attorney who I have had for years, is the only one I DO trust, and he has been a great help to me in getting things lined up and simplified so I can handle things even when I am not doing so good. My attorney has even contacted the idiot owner of the park, where I live, who was starting up problems again, just to start something, and told him to totally cease and desist as I have enough on my plate to handle without having their juvenile behaviors being inserted into something that they have no grounds to have issues with me anyway. So its been quiet and I just handle my day as it comes.
I am working on a post for my herb blog and should have that up sometime on the weekend. I am still reading the article on the new restrictions that are planning on being implemented for poultry, as it is a large article, and has many facets to it. When I post about it, I want to be sure what and how it reads, as from what I am reading, will try to stop people from having backyard flocks, or it could be used to stop backyard flocks. If anyone who reads this blog, knows anything about this, email me and let me know. This is just starting to come out and I am not sure how many people know about it.
Well, I need to disappear for a while, I have to pick up a few legal papers and do some running. I do want to take the time to say I am sorry that I have vented here. And if I have lost readership, then I guess, so be it. But what happened to me can happen to others by sheer mistakes that can cost someone a life or a serious change in someones life, which to me is unacceptable. I know mistakes are made, but some are costly when a life is in the middle of it. Again, I am sorry I have vented and ranted.
I wish everyone a wonderful, peaceful weekend. I will post later.
Hugs
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Trials and Tribulations of Life
Good Morning Everyone,
I thought I 'd better post so everyone would not think that I jumped ship like a rat. After a very upsetting and aggravating week I had last week and Monday, and Tuesday of this week being equally difficult, I was just about ready to strangle something, and then jump ship.
I had to think a little bit before I posted these thoughts and issues as it concerns me, family and the health care system that will eventually affects us down the road. I generally do not get political, and try to look at things in a perspective of both sides, but what had happened, angered me beyond anyone's imagination and it will affect all of us unless it is challenged and stopped.
Last Monday, I ran errands with my mother as usual. It was getting close to 5 pm and so I needed to get home, and she was getting tired, so I got in the driveway, and my mother had an episode of some sort, was very dizzy, and unsure of herself, and then on top of all of this, she popped her artificial hip out of joint, which it does do, if she isn't thinking about how she gets out of the car.
I ran in the house, told my dad I was running her right into the ER, which is about 3 blocks away from my parent's house. I was there in a flash, and got help to get her out of the car and into Triage.
Well, the ER doctor I am very familiar with. A very compassionate, and caring man who has put my mother's hips in before a few times when they pop out.
They started to get her prepped for a light sedation to slip the hip back in, and so Dr Smith, escorted me to the family room and said he would come get me as soon as he was done with everything.
About 20 minutes later, Dr Smith came in. My heart was in my throat, the look on his face was horrified, and it was a look I had never seen on his face before.
Vicki, I need to talk to you very seriously about something...I am totally PO'd at this and this needs to be addressed.
I was sure I had lost my mother, and the tears started to flow...No, Vicki, your mom is just fine, its her primary doctor I am totally PO'd at, he said. Did you know anything about this? No, doc, I didn't.
He proceeded to tell me that mom told him that her primary doctor had not refilled her blood pressure meds at all for over two months, and when we got her into the ER, her blood pressure was 194/80. My mother did not bother to tell me that the doctor was withholding meds, because they own a small $50 bill at the doctor's office,and because of it, they are now refusing to refill meds, period.
I was, frankly, beyond pissed. I was livid. And Dr. Smith was livid also. So, with his referral, Dr Smith got us to a new primary care doctor, and I took her to her appointment last Friday. This new doctor is just like Dr Smith, compassionate, caring and listened. He ran blood, and then changed her meds, and change a few other prescriptions and as of this week, my mother is doing somewhat better. Mentally, my mother is showing her age, and cannot keep track of bank accounts and money, and bills, so I also had to do something that right at the moment, my dad is mad at me, by getting power of attorney for both financial and medical paperwork work. I also went over to the other doctor who refused to give mom her meds and I blew up in the office and made a scene there also. It wasn't pretty.
Needless to say, after I blew up at the old doctor's office, the next morning, I did not feel good at all. I was having issues also. Probably my blood pressure was beyond the sky also. My stomach was knotted, twisted, and irritated, my head hurt, in fact, everything hurt. So I had been on a little hiatus for a little while until I calm down.
I am in disbelief of the way doctor's are now working. Denying medical help or medicines that people need, because of a small bill. I did not think that I would see it here, but I am afraid its here now.
I also started this week on Monday, firing D's work comp attorney and finding a new attorney in Iowa to handle it. The attorney handling the case before I fired him was compromising the case and letting things slide so I took matters into my hands again, and was the three headed dog. So I have had a lot of people really PO'd at me at the moment and just because I was standing up for basic rights and situations. I also had several cats who were very ill, and I lost one a few weeks back to liver failure, so its been very stressful and unhappy at my house.
So as you can see, it was trying, and very stressful for me. And I had to think about it before I posted as I don't like to post things like this, but the medical issues were too much for me to put up with, and I could not stand for any more treatment like that. I won't go into politics as that will send me over the edge right at the moment, still feeling a little rough around the edges with stress, but I will tell you, this will affect my vote all around. Enough said.
I did manage to play a little in some seedling dirt and plant some lettuces, and bunching onions. I have mesclun lettuces coming up now, and I thought I seen a tiny onion seed coming up, so that brightened my day a little. A little plant has such power.
In a few days, I am going to post about something else that I have just received in a new homestead magazine. I need to sit down and read it, but it is concerning people who keep poultry flocks and this included backyard flocks. Its something like the animal identity that the USDA started, but they dropped it, but it looks like now, the powers that be are starting up a new system to track who has birds, and how many. Another control and restriction planned. I will read this and post in a few days. It is in my new Countryside and Small Stock Journal magazine, for March/April 2012. I went to their website, (www.countrysidemag.com), and they still have the January/February 2012 magazine still up. The article is called "chicken crimes". If they get it up soon, please go through and read it. I am sure it will affect everyone who keeps poultry.
Well, I think that I belly ached enough. I don't know if I feel better. And I probably shouldn't of blabbed, but I was angry about this, and I am still angry about it.
I wish everyone a wonderful rest of the week. and I will sure try to find something else to be happy about. Til then, keep on, keeping on. Be Safe all. And stay warm.
Hugs
I thought I 'd better post so everyone would not think that I jumped ship like a rat. After a very upsetting and aggravating week I had last week and Monday, and Tuesday of this week being equally difficult, I was just about ready to strangle something, and then jump ship.
I had to think a little bit before I posted these thoughts and issues as it concerns me, family and the health care system that will eventually affects us down the road. I generally do not get political, and try to look at things in a perspective of both sides, but what had happened, angered me beyond anyone's imagination and it will affect all of us unless it is challenged and stopped.
Last Monday, I ran errands with my mother as usual. It was getting close to 5 pm and so I needed to get home, and she was getting tired, so I got in the driveway, and my mother had an episode of some sort, was very dizzy, and unsure of herself, and then on top of all of this, she popped her artificial hip out of joint, which it does do, if she isn't thinking about how she gets out of the car.
I ran in the house, told my dad I was running her right into the ER, which is about 3 blocks away from my parent's house. I was there in a flash, and got help to get her out of the car and into Triage.
Well, the ER doctor I am very familiar with. A very compassionate, and caring man who has put my mother's hips in before a few times when they pop out.
They started to get her prepped for a light sedation to slip the hip back in, and so Dr Smith, escorted me to the family room and said he would come get me as soon as he was done with everything.
About 20 minutes later, Dr Smith came in. My heart was in my throat, the look on his face was horrified, and it was a look I had never seen on his face before.
Vicki, I need to talk to you very seriously about something...I am totally PO'd at this and this needs to be addressed.
I was sure I had lost my mother, and the tears started to flow...No, Vicki, your mom is just fine, its her primary doctor I am totally PO'd at, he said. Did you know anything about this? No, doc, I didn't.
He proceeded to tell me that mom told him that her primary doctor had not refilled her blood pressure meds at all for over two months, and when we got her into the ER, her blood pressure was 194/80. My mother did not bother to tell me that the doctor was withholding meds, because they own a small $50 bill at the doctor's office,and because of it, they are now refusing to refill meds, period.
I was, frankly, beyond pissed. I was livid. And Dr. Smith was livid also. So, with his referral, Dr Smith got us to a new primary care doctor, and I took her to her appointment last Friday. This new doctor is just like Dr Smith, compassionate, caring and listened. He ran blood, and then changed her meds, and change a few other prescriptions and as of this week, my mother is doing somewhat better. Mentally, my mother is showing her age, and cannot keep track of bank accounts and money, and bills, so I also had to do something that right at the moment, my dad is mad at me, by getting power of attorney for both financial and medical paperwork work. I also went over to the other doctor who refused to give mom her meds and I blew up in the office and made a scene there also. It wasn't pretty.
Needless to say, after I blew up at the old doctor's office, the next morning, I did not feel good at all. I was having issues also. Probably my blood pressure was beyond the sky also. My stomach was knotted, twisted, and irritated, my head hurt, in fact, everything hurt. So I had been on a little hiatus for a little while until I calm down.
I am in disbelief of the way doctor's are now working. Denying medical help or medicines that people need, because of a small bill. I did not think that I would see it here, but I am afraid its here now.
I also started this week on Monday, firing D's work comp attorney and finding a new attorney in Iowa to handle it. The attorney handling the case before I fired him was compromising the case and letting things slide so I took matters into my hands again, and was the three headed dog. So I have had a lot of people really PO'd at me at the moment and just because I was standing up for basic rights and situations. I also had several cats who were very ill, and I lost one a few weeks back to liver failure, so its been very stressful and unhappy at my house.
So as you can see, it was trying, and very stressful for me. And I had to think about it before I posted as I don't like to post things like this, but the medical issues were too much for me to put up with, and I could not stand for any more treatment like that. I won't go into politics as that will send me over the edge right at the moment, still feeling a little rough around the edges with stress, but I will tell you, this will affect my vote all around. Enough said.
I did manage to play a little in some seedling dirt and plant some lettuces, and bunching onions. I have mesclun lettuces coming up now, and I thought I seen a tiny onion seed coming up, so that brightened my day a little. A little plant has such power.
In a few days, I am going to post about something else that I have just received in a new homestead magazine. I need to sit down and read it, but it is concerning people who keep poultry flocks and this included backyard flocks. Its something like the animal identity that the USDA started, but they dropped it, but it looks like now, the powers that be are starting up a new system to track who has birds, and how many. Another control and restriction planned. I will read this and post in a few days. It is in my new Countryside and Small Stock Journal magazine, for March/April 2012. I went to their website, (www.countrysidemag.com), and they still have the January/February 2012 magazine still up. The article is called "chicken crimes". If they get it up soon, please go through and read it. I am sure it will affect everyone who keeps poultry.
Well, I think that I belly ached enough. I don't know if I feel better. And I probably shouldn't of blabbed, but I was angry about this, and I am still angry about it.
I wish everyone a wonderful rest of the week. and I will sure try to find something else to be happy about. Til then, keep on, keeping on. Be Safe all. And stay warm.
Hugs
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Happy Valentine's Day to Everyone
Good Morning Everyone,
I just want to post to wish all of you a most wonderful Valentine's Day. Your readership, friendship means so much to me, especially after a most trying and difficult last week and a tough week this will be.
I will post later as I have a very full, week ahead with life and I will fill in later.
Hugs to all of you, you mean so very much to me.
Hugs
I just want to post to wish all of you a most wonderful Valentine's Day. Your readership, friendship means so much to me, especially after a most trying and difficult last week and a tough week this will be.
I will post later as I have a very full, week ahead with life and I will fill in later.
Hugs to all of you, you mean so very much to me.
Hugs
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