june 21 2022
personally......i need a thundershirt..... really... apparently this thundershirt they now advertise will cure all the problems a dog could have-- so why not one for me??/ just think----- if noise bothers me- especially the. noise of the news - i could just slip into that "strap on solution" . which would help for those days when i can not reach the off button quickly enough. and the ubiquitous thundering of just too many people could be silenced by a quick wrap? ustabee liquor was a quicker solution to which so many people resorted- myself included.... but my several bottles of ( donated) blackberry brandy sit high on my shelf and out of m. y sight... having developed such a poor memory, i forget they are there..... but with meletonin not doing the trick, maybe back to brandy should be tried ....again.
i don't know who got this thunder shirt. idea... and name.... maybe it was an overworked pediatric nurse while she was wrapping a newborn so tight in the blankets because she heard it quieted these babies.. so they would sleep longer...... baby swathing is a 2000 year old practice- but the biblical swathing was very specific about not swathing so tight the poor babe can not breathe..... how different from doctor pol who throws a bucket of cold water on a newborn calf.... with a "here you go... wake up. to the world." and the calf... within hours gets up and gets to. work... finding the cafeteria.... so maybe the. world would be a better place if we took dr pol's approach of a slosch. in cold water......" here is the world kid.... get used to it"
Swathing so tight that they can't move might be the cause of "lack of individual effort" a problem which becomes so evident 16 years later. -
i know of a child who was born in the front seat of a pick up truck- and certainly never got swathed so he could sleep better...and currently can be found having hauled his 6'2" muscular frame 80 feet up a big tree to earn a nice living.
so..... if you are while desiging my personal. thundershirt , please note it must be a warming device also-- because along with many other things which were once automatic...., my ability to regulate my temperature in various body parts has become very limited.
