“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet”
My morning starts. I check to see what the cats need, food, water, I have a glance at the cat boxes and see if they need changing. Then on to the fire to add wood. Lately, those simple jobs have become more difficult, the pain is getting worse and balance has become a problem. It seems the pains move to different locations on different days. Today is the left side of my back and as always my throat.
Yesterday I splashed some warm water on my face and fell into a wall. I recover from that and fell again. No dizziness just fell over. This happening more and more. I have to walk very carefully and steady myself at every step. I have learned since I fell in my shop and landed full force on my elbow I am sure there is a fracture there. Recently I took a good hit to my shin, I have a major bruise and scar tissue there. I did have peroxide so the wound isn’t infected and it is on its way to healing.
I can’t make it to a hospital, I asked someone to give me a ride in, someone that came to me for the help of a technical nature, after I helped, I never saw them again. I seem to be surrounded by people like that. It is no wonder I have become reclusive. I am not too worried about the hospital visit. I am sure the only solution would be a cast, which i cannot do. I have wood to cut and split. I do rest my arm on a pillow. I will leave the rest to God
My old van needs a muffler and it will be a few days until I can order a new one. Then I have to wait for the parts to arrive and install them. By then the cold weather will be here. Such is my life.
Don’t think for a moment I am depressed about it. I am not, life for me is difficult. I seem to have it harder than others, so be it. Sometimes my interactions with people do cause some sadness, but eventually, I move on and do what I always do and keep on keeping on.
Now I can go on to talk about the little pleasures in my life, I look forward to those, right at this moment, it is a perfect cup of coffee, water heated on my wood stove, fresh ground beans. I didn’t have fresh cream but I did have some powdered whole milk. It will do.
Later today I will get to work in my workshop on my router table, I managed to make a little progress on that yesterday, both on the computer and on the project itself. Then it is on to bring more logs in to split. This year, the first time in many years I am using the electric splitter in my garage to split. I don’t think my body could handle swinging a 12-pound maul right now. I have been splitting wood by hand for many years. I did take a break when my kids were old enough to help with the wood, the electric splitter was something they could handle safely. I knew the day would come that I would have to use a machine, in a few days I turn 62 years old. I have injuries to almost all of my bones, except my right wrist and even there I suspect the beginnings of metacarpal.
More snow coming tonight. It was interesting trying to move this over solid ice.
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