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Mar 4 2019 The woodcutter

Beetle kills tree. Woodcutter falls tree. Machine piles logs, ready for the truck to pickup. Logging truck delivers them to my home. My chainsaw cuts logs into blocks. Loaded into the wheelbarrow to move them to the chopping block. Splitting maul swung down hard makes firewood. Wheelbarrow is loaded once again and pushed through snow,…


Mar 3 2019 I am alive

Another day. Headaches kidney pain, but no tooth pain this morning, no ear aches, no jaw pain, no screaming or moaning or concentrating on something else while the pain goes away. So far. Yesterday I had three one hour periods where the pain killers failed, those hours were excruciating. I even got close to maximizing…


Mar 2 2019 Stay Frosty

It’s another beautiful day in the frozen north. -33 according to the forecasts. This will be the coldest night this winter. Me I don’t believe it. Just updated the weather now is displaying a warning windchill to -50 tonight. Headache this morning. I had one yesterday and the day before. I am sure it is…


Mar 1 2019 Paint it black

I woke up twice to less than 10 degrees inside. I attended the fire, both times I assumed it would keep burning and heat the house. I slept till 11  and woke up to cold. I knew what was next I needed to go on the slippery sheet metal roof and check the chimney for…


Feb 28 2019 Unsure

“Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.”  Robert Reich In like a lion out like a lamb. We will see. March 1 will be -45 windchill again. And the 2nd. I had a very tough day. The pain killers aren’t working…


Feb 27 2019 Pain Meds

I made some big mistakes today. I stopped taking pain meds cause I thought they were working I also took too many antibiotics. I switched the numbers instead of 4 times a day I did 6. The pain came back and it was extreme. I had to wait an hour for the pain meds to…


Feb 26 2019 Fatal Pharma

Threw some used cat litter under the tires, got the van unstuck, drove to town picked up my antibiotics. Read the warning that they could cause fatality. Pharma is good why? Well I am taking them now. If the writing stops I didn’t make it,


Feb 25 2019 Hang on

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” Franklin D. Roosevelt Wow the pain came back, it is spreading. I made a call to a dentist. We both agreed it would be better to treat the infection first then do the work. They were kind enough to…


FEB 24 2019 Lara Bar Mystery

“I like the cold weather better than the hot weather.” Rosie Perez -26 This morning. Cats needed water, birds needed seed, and I needed to bring in a forty pound bag of magic poop powder (wood pellets). On with the snow boots, a hat I wasn’t going out there long, so I just wore my…


Feb 23 2019 Extreme cold Again

-17 with a wind. I haven’t written much. The pain has been too severe. Today I feel a little better but extremely fatigued. Maybe because of the trauma of the pain. Or maybe cause I didn’t take my vitamin D3 for two days. I stopped just to make sure that vitamins were not contributing to…