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I hate to believe Janine may be right---  but after my 4th ambulance ride in 30 days I do think having jiminy and lucky and me all loose in the same room is literally death threatening.

the problem yesterday was a scratch on my leg which I'd put a Band-Aid on and figured it was gone a few hours later I took off the Band-Aid to take a shower and I was still leaking---the Band-Aid was literally bulging with bright red blood and it proceeded to run down my leg so I put pressure on it and did the usual things and got nowhere it wouldn't stop ... In addition I located a marble size lump right near my collarbone and I wondered about that for a while and then all of a sudden I began to have a black and blue mark Growing down as the blood was subject to gravity...   with those two things in mind happening quickly I wondered what was going on inside me and was I once again in the same situation as the kidney bleeding that had sent me running for the hospital the first several times so we called the ambulance..  who were not particularly jovial I couldn't blame him it's January 1st but nonetheless if I hadn't had these disasters they wouldn't have a job..   we--- Elizabeth---- had checked with our home care.. who said to go to the emergency room right away have some blood tests to make sure I wasn't on a sliding something..  so we did that...  and having spent four hours being tested and poked they decided I could go home and just be extremely careful and watch for anything else to happen which is not tremendously reassuring.....  the ER was horrendously busy I never did see a doctor but I did have blood tests which hopefully a doctor waved their hand over at any rate I got sent home again and told to be extremely careful...  and a bit lazy... I like that one

 

the problem is or was. larkey and Jimmy had a fight and that has made everybody very nervous that they'll do it again and they might.. the reason they had the fight...  was the Gemini had gone to Aiken with Janine and totally enjoyed being the only dog and therefore top dog...   in the mean time lockie was home with his mother who doesn't dominate anyway so he enjoyed being top dog home....  then Janine came home with Gemini when I was in route to a hospital so she just figured they were friendly and through the two in together and we had mixed up two dominant dogs who figured they had to battle it out..   if I had been there I would have been top dog and told them all lie down and behave and I don't believe they would have fought however they did and they may again....   I am really not capable of dealing with 180 times 2 pounds of either happy or unhappy great Danes while on blood thinner. I have in the past month insisted that the two of them behave themselves all lying on the same mattress but I have to watch them----because instantaneously. they could explode into a tumbling mess of dog....  and I can no longer tolerate bruises.. so believe it or not Elizabeth had a mammoth wire crate for Danes which was now set up right behind me...  and I must pass the ruling that one or the other have to be in that crate at all times.

so it now is my chore to make that crate as desirable as I can////and I can do that the plan at the moment is to get rid of the sofa.... and get that stainless steel grooming table that's down in the G tent.  I've always liked that table---  and put this big crate on it so that I then have the equivalent of the raised.   queen size mattress slash dog bed also in the window so they can look out it just would be barricaded so that we can actually have one dog in the crate and the other loose without any problems..  you put one out the back door you put one out the front door then you let in the guy that's going in the crate and you put some nice fresh wet food in there then you get the second dog in to sleep on the queen size mattress which holds two dogs without trouble which would then be sizzle and one of her sons.  so that is the plan and it also may involve Janine taking Jimmy with her to Aiken I don't know.

 

in the meantime Mary---well I don't think I've ever met---has offered to come and stay in the RV and participate in goldies farm...  may work perfectly but let me say up front that it is not necessary to freeze over there and be uncomfortable when you can come over the driveway  to the cabin I have an extra bedroom here even if it is at the moment covered with fluffies and towels there's no point in freezing over there or being uncomfortable so by all means come over here across the driveway and make sure you're comfortable you can keep your belongings in the RV which I do suggests -----do not mix anything with our generic pile of crap... or you might never find it again..  the RV would at least serve that purpose. but don't freeze

I lost track on who Mary is I heard she's from California but living in Connecticut -----she's a camera person and now goldies warrior.. that's all that's necessary for me to know anyway I'm looking forward to her arrival probably around noon I'm told it's still taking the afternoon to get organized to the RV anyway I do know there was a great flurry of activity yesterday on making the RV level but if she's a CP she has to be well aware like crazy acres can be crazy.... and being adaptable is a prerequisite for survival...

 

The question of the day ---or next weeks ...  is if I do leave the cabin even to go ambulance thing or wherever... remember it literally takes three men and a boy to push me back up the hill and get me back in the cabin...  luckily yesterday Nick was still here so he and Janine struggled and got me in..  even though I now have lost 6 lbs since my first ambulance ride that's a good thing.....

 with regard to my general survival----  getting me back in the cabin is one of those things we talked about..i am self sufficient once in the cabin....  and why I need to have access to living quarters straight out of my car which would be the laundry building.----  and I best not go too much further,, except to wonder  when did treating old folk this way become fashionable to some?