Woke up Thursday morning and had a hard time standing up straight! Took a good 10 minutes. And then every time I sat down for any length of time . . . yep, it would take ANOTHER 10 minutes to stand back up again! Sigh.
So I went back over to the doctor Thursday afternoon. More x-rays. In the end, he gave me inflammation reduction meds to try first. If that doesn't work (and it hasn't so far), then I'll need to do that steroid thing . . . where you take something like 6 pills the first day, 5 the next, 4 the next etc. etc.
Then if THAT doesn't work, well -- it'll probably mean another back injection. Those darned things are expensive, but I'll tell you what, when something like this happens I'm willing to do WHATEVER it takes to get past it. I never really pay any attention to what all I need to do until I'm not able to do it. Then it's more than obvious just how much stuff I need to get done on a regular basis!
On the plus side, though, this didn't happen until AFTER all our company had gone home anyway. I would have hated not being able to get around well while everyone was here.
Oh - got a note from the guy we found to replace David today and he will be starting next week to get on with a lot of things we still need done - various repairs to the barn, fixing those drawers in the kitchen that David didn't complete, and even replacing the roof on that storage building out in back. Once that roof is replaced, Mark will be getting a giant dumpster put back there so he can clear out all the stuff in that building that has been there for the entire 10 years we've been in this house and we haven't missed any of it! The way my memory is working (or rather "not" working), I don't have the slightest idea what the heck is out there anyway! It's a decent-sized building, so once it's cleared out it will make a fine place to store all Mark's tools and equipment and the garage will be nice and open for BOTH our vehicles instead of just mine!
Oh, I checked with Home Depot last week and they don't have one in stock, but they CAN order a solid core door that's a full 4 feet wide and 8 feet tall!!! That means we can make stall doors out of those instead of having to build them out of multiple layers of plywood or something. Terrific! The only thing is, the ones we used to make those sliding shutters on the front porch weighed over 100 lbs each -- and those were only 36 X 80! I hate to think what one 48 X 96 is going to weigh!!! Hope Shaun is either VERY strong - or has help!
The stall doors need to be "dutch" doors, though, so those doors will need to be cut in half so that the bottom half can be closed to keep the horses in while the top half can remain open so that the barn would still have plenty of air movement. The only time we would be closing the top would be during a hurricane. So we'll have to get some sort of U-shaped steel made to cover the top of the bottom door and the bottom of the top door once they're cut in two because solid core doors are actually only solid wood around the outside edge. The interior IS filled with wood, but it's not all one solid piece so it won't stay in place without the edge sealed. Besides, having a metal top will prevent the horses from chewing on it, too.
Those doors are unfinished, of course, so we'll need to paint them with waterproof paint (teal, of course!). Hope the horses don't kick at them and ruin the paint!
Oh, got the interior tack room in the barn air conditioned! NOW I need to get busy and clean all the saddles that have gotten moldy sitting out there in high humidity. But with the barn that nice and cool, I feel really guilty when I see Lizzie standing in her (hot) stall panting, with her head 6 inches from the fan I have aimed into her stall, poor baby! She has Cushings so she's a lot more sensitive to heat that the guys are. So I'm planning to get her one of those misting fans that are supposed to lower the temperature by about 25 degrees! I'm sure she'll really appreciate that. Of course, I may need to lock her paddock gate then so that Duke or Arthur can't run her off so THEY can stand in front of her new fan! But hey -- it may feel pretty darned good to me too to stand next to her in front of that fan when I work on grooming her!
Okay - here's a photo of our house taken last week. It gets tidier all the time. I REALLY hope it makes it to "perfect" (at least from our perspective) by the time neither of us can do a darned thing with it any longer! (Obviously I'm having those thoughts as a result of that back problem. Sigh.)
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