Goodbye Sling!

6:45 am

                Sling is off!!! Goodbye sling. Now I must get used to being without it. And I must actually use my arm for things like eating and typing (as I am doing right now). I had it off all yesterday and it was ok though sore and hard to get comfortable. And it was hard last night. I started out in the bed, but then it was hurting too much so I reverted to the recliner again. I guess that will take a bit of time. Not that I mind the recliner at all. I actually quite like it.

The day looms ahead. I am turning into a total slug. Yesterday I went to pt at 8, then a meeting re the Ag Ed area at the fair, then on to the Univ to pay the tuition bill (next to last one!) then I took the bus home and by then (noon) I was totally beat and spent most of the rest of the day vegging. The fridge is now jam-packed with (so to speak) veggies, and I do need to deal with them today. And at the end of the day yesterday I attempted to finish plucking Bart, which I had started last week. Well it was really hard and I have to be careful not to yank my arm or end up using it too much. I think most of what is left will need to be clipped off. And then there are Dylan and Ethyl who will also probably need to be clipped, and Gnatalie, and then Amber who I can probably pluck. And then there is Gimli. Bad news: Fantasia has a bad case of Pastuerella. She is really wheezing. It is really sad. But I cannot just put her down bc she has two really pretty babies. I guess I won’t be able to keep or sell them, but I want to get them weaned before I put her down.

                Being a slug is actually rather comfortable. Satisfying, well I suppose not because I so identify myself with what I DO. And if I don’t DO a lot then what am I worth? But so much of my time the things I do are mostly just busy work. Today I will have to put a lot of effort into dealing with vegetables. And who the hell will care if I cook up a bunch of eggplant? The last batch I cooked I ended up throwing half of it away bc it went bad. Well I’ll do the best I can.

                And soon too soon my sluggishness will be moot as work will start back up and then it will be all just craziness. I need to get the labs out and read them over and start planning out the prep work etc. I hope things will be ok with my arm fairly useless. I guess they will have to be.

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