Life on the High Plains

My sweet hubby takes such good care of me and my critters.  Can you believe he went and got a couple hundred bales of hay by himself and then stacked them up in the barn all the way to the rafters by himself? I don't know how he does it. I'm really happy to have a whole year's worth of hay stacked in the barn.  (my critters are happy too) Kidney stone update:  Dr. M sent me for a CT Scan today before doing kidney stone surgery.  Guess what?  No stone, but the pain persists.  He sent me back to my primary care doctor to find out what's going on.  I'm back to square one after almost seven of constant pain.

We finally made it to a Skysox game tonight. They are our local minor league baseball team. Ryan Spilborghs from the Rockies is playing with them tonight. Right now the Skysox are beating the Tacoma Raniers 8-4 in the sixth inning. It's a beautiful evening to be hanging out with the family.

Mr. Beans had such a horrible football experience last year that he decided to play fall soccer instead of football. I don't blame him a bit.

It has been almost 10 days since I was diagnosed with a kidney stone.  The first 7 of those days weren't so bad; the last 3 days have been horrendous.  Unless you've had a kidney stone you can't understand what it feels like.  I feel as though I've been kicked in the side by one of our horses.  Percoset doesn't even help anymore and sleep is almost impossible.  I'm sure everyone, especially my precious husband, is really tired of me feeling bad.  I'm tired of me feeling bad too.  I can't believe I've gone to work the whole time, I even traveled to one of our branch offices a couple days ago and worked a 12 hour day.  On Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. I get to go back to my urologist and he'll schedule surgery to remove it.  I wish I could call him right now and see if he'd meet me at the hospital.  The bad part about that is that I may not be able to travel to Wisconsin next Friday for Jillian and Brian's wedding celebration.  I'm not going t...

We took the horses out for a ride today. I was hoping to shake my kidney stone loose.  It didn't work...at least not yet. I did get this great shot of Doc's ears. Mr. Beans got a great shot of Cody's tongue. Irv didn't get bucked off his horse. So all-in-all, it was a great day.

Our neighbor just got two miniature donkeys.  This one likes to come through the fence to our side.  I'm pretty sure he heard we serve breakfast and dinner on a regular schedule. To get to our side, he lays down by the fence and rolls under it.  (Really--I'm not kidding!)  It's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.  I'm hoping to catch it on video. His pasture mate isn't nearly as smart or as friendly. He snorts at me when I get too close. They really are very cute, but I can't see a reason for having them. I need to come up with names.  Any suggestions?

renal colic n : sharp pain in the lower back that radiates into the groin; associated with the passage of a renal calculus through the ureter In other words...kidney stone. About a month ago I started having a dull ache in my right side.  Kidney stone?  Not possible, it wasn't that long ago that I had a rather large stone removed or blasted from each kidney (actually it was a year and a half) I'm not going down that path again. One trip to the urgent care--diagnosis: kidney infection.  One round of antibiotics completed...still have that nagging pain. One trip to my primary care physician--no diagnosis yet, but we're still running tests. Friday night--doubled over in pain, glad I have some Vicadin left over, sick to my stomach. OMG...I have a kidney stone, no doubt, but there's no way in heck I'm going to the ER.  Last time I went there they made me stay for two days.  I will however, take my temperature every couple of hours to make sure I'm no...