rachels.haven's Journal

[farmerjan]

Sorry that the kids got a "bug".... and the baby too, most likely from exposure to the boys. Kids get sick and schools are the biggest "mixing pot" of everyone's germs. On top of that, with so much isolation the past year or so, there is no 'gradual" exposure from playing or anything, so none of the little bits of exposure that helps to build immune systems. Glad to hear they are already to feel and act "normal"...

Have you found anything yet down in Tenn?? Things going okay with your DH and no new complications with his eyesight? Ever get anything settled with the fence guys?
How is Lace's mastitis doing? Hope it got cleared up. Are you back to milking her for awhile?

Hoping things go along semi quietly for a bit for you.....

 

[rachels.haven]

We're finding lots of stuff in Tennessee. I also found people who make prefab row barns and drop them on your property. My mom is going to look at properties for us. Lots of law reading and flood plain checking going on.

My husband is between eye doctors right now. His last office is not a good one. The office staff is incompetent (not good with an unforgiving disease), exam doctors messed up his Rx costing us a pair of glasses, and the glaucoma specialist is semi-retired, and the doctor he's seeing is more likely to blind him than maintain sight. Good time to move, eh?

Lace isn't really making milk anymore. Basically I strip her out of yesterday's drugs and what little milk is there, spray teats, give an infusion, spray, and give penicillin.

All three kids have hand, foot, and mouth. We went to the doctor today to rule out chicken pox.
A little tired.

 

[rachels.haven]

My husband now has Hand, Foot, and Mouth too, and he's got it bad. This stinks.

Last survivor here.

(Farm is in maintenance mode still)

 

[Baymule]

I’m so sorry that your family is sick. Wonder how many kids on the bus got sick too.

 

[rachels.haven]

That goes through my head every time the kids get sick.
This is very contagious to boot.

 

[rachels.haven]

I forgot, actually the pediatrician we took them to said this is ultra common in the area (everyone does daycare and pre-k and they're not so good at being sanitary) so everyone else has probably already had it. My kids haven't. My kids haven't attended pre-k and daycare. And my husband and I also didn't attend pre-k and daycare as children. Anyway that was why she told us to send the kids back to school this week. I don't feel great about that.

You're also not supposed to get it at all much over age 5, 6,7ish. (My poor 4 year old husband?)

 

[Bruce]

My husband now has Hand, Foot, and Mouth too, and he's got it bad. This stinks.

Where the heck did he pick that up? I hope he recovers quickly.

 

[rachels.haven]

Where the heck did he pick that up? I hope he recovers quickly.

He got it from the kids, who brought it home from school. The baby got it too. Adults don't generally get sick or show symptoms from it, like for instance a temperature, sore throat, or painful blisters all over , dontcha know?

 

[Bruce]

Is that what the boys had when the fools at school sent them home on the bus?

 

[rachels.haven]

Yup.