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[yorkchick]

Yikes, Mom2! How horrible for you. Take it as easy as you can in the next few days (or more!)--I know from personal experience that the day of a car accident is never the worst of it, as they told you at the hospital. And I don't understand people who can't acknowledge their own responsibility for mistakes. I mean, it was dark, it was slippery, any of us might have been the one behind you--but I like to think that most of us would apologize profusely and feel terrible about it. Well, I suppose they always tell you not to verbally admit fault (wait, that was from driver's ed many decades ago in another state that wasn't a no-fault state, no idea if they say that here...) but no matter what the legal advice, seems like you can safely do at least two things when you know in your heart you were at fault: ask repeatedly if the other person is okay, and not insist it wasn't your fault. Wouldn't make you hurt any less, Kim, but might not be yet another injury to your faith in your fellow humans.

Of course, I suspect the other driver had some ulterior motive regarding not wanting the police to come. Outstanding warrant/lack of insurance/illegal substances in her vehicle are the first things to come to mind. I guess that just goes to show how much faith I have in my fellow humans.

Present company excepted, of course!

Anyway, be very very good to yourself as you heal. I've never had whiplash, but I hear it is very painful and not a quick recovery.

Henry, Penelope, and Libby send love and honks. When it snows, they get little drifts of sparkles on their backs. So far, that is my only Christmas decoration!


Double yikes! Just as I was about to hit "submit," I saw Theron's post about his friend. So sorry to hear, and yet how wonderful that she and her boyfriend lived through it. I have known a few people who have survived just horrendous car crashes with the accompanying long hospitalizations and therapy, but who are doing very well now. Makes me want to keep Michigan's unlimited medical coverage for auto accidents... JMO.

 

[yorkchick]

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RaZ, are you trying to imply that I was fictionalizing your responsibility for "grumble" as the new "crumble"? Do you actually not remember? Because if I really had come up with something clever like that, I'd sure remember. (To be fair, you post a lot of funny comments, so I suppose you can't be expected to memorize them all...) Or maybe you're just being modest. Because if you went to all the trouble to look up my use of "grumble," you only had to go back a mere 92 more pages to see the original:

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Looking for the reference? That would be page 2497, post 24964, Mr. Smarty Pants.

It's hard enough keeping up going forward with the 5 to 7 pages daily and now your're busting my chops about not going back 374?
This used to be a friendly thread and now you question my memory and call me names

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I have been cut to the quick. To the quick I say!

I think I just might take my chickens and go home...Oh wait, I am already home. Doh! Maybe my memory is going...

BTW, this post was made with tongue firmly in cheek.

(sorry, closest emoticon on the list)

RaZ, I have rarely read a post of yours where your tongue was not firmly in your cheek. Where it belongs!

 

[Farmer Andy]

Mom2- So very thankful that you are going to be alright. As the hospital told you, the next few days will be the tough ones. Working as a firefighter/emt, I always try to prepare people for the next few days following an accident. If you think the pain is worse than normal or develop any new symptoms over the next few days please get yourself reexamined at the hospital, either by having someone take you or calling 911. Please take care of yourself or better yet have someone spoil you. will be thinking about you.

Theron- Same goes for you and your friends. will be thinking about them and hoping for a speedy and full recovery!

I have been a welcoming failure as of late, so here goes. A big Michigan Thread welcome goes out to Flatlander, RLipinski10, jerryb, and soulshadow! Even though I take notes of all the newcomers I think I still may have missed one or two, and if I did, welcome to you as well. You will find so many nice and helpful chicken friends here.

Yorkchick- You crack me up up!!!! I found it incredible that Raz was able to go back that far and find that post. Then you come along and go farther back, and zap him a good one. Really glad this thread is here and we can all have so much fun talking chicken.

Hope everyone has a fun and especially safe weekend!

 

[1muttsfan]

Mom,

thank goodness you were not seriously hurt

theron and grandma, I hope your friends do we'll
Good night all

 

[sj3364]

Mom, glad you were not seriously hurt. Motrin will be your friend, for sure.

Theron, glad your friends are going to be okay, too.

Not sure how I can have a full time job and hpoe to keep up on what is going on. "Grumbles" was very funny.

I kept the chooks in the run the whole day for the first time. They have always had the run of the yard. They did fine though I'm sure they would have been happier running around and begging for treats at the back door.
Spoiled chickens!

 

[RaZ]

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Except for your comment about me being "zapped".

 

[babigyrl22]

Mom! - I am so glad that you are ok! I suffered from whiplash a couple weeks ago. Stay ontop of the pain and take it easy. A heating pad will be your friend.

Raz & York - you guys have me cracking up this morning.

Theron - I hope your friend makes a quick and full recovery.

Farmerboy - What adorable pictures!

Yeah I am up early this morning. I've made myself some hot cocoa and I think I am going to game for a bit and see if I get sleepy again. My coworker/friends have invited me over today for a an all-day cookie baking bananzaa! I am probably just over excited about that....has to be it.

Well let me be the first to say... Good Morning!

 

[Opa]

Coldest night of the year and the temperatures are still falling.

I'm supposed to go hunting this morning but I haven't heard from David yet so I'm not sure if we are going. I don't think it will break my heart if we don't.

When you read posts like Moms and Theron's you can't help but be reminded of how precious every day is and how quickly things can happen. I'm glad they are alright and they will be in my thoughts and prayers.

I talked with my oldest son yesterday and he said he sure wished I lived closer as he could have used my help. He picked up two of his hogs from the slaughter house and hung them where he can start butchering today. Then he went to move some calves. Somehow when off loading one fell and broke a hip so he had to put her down. He had just finished skinning and hanging her when he called and he was exhausted. Just one more of the joys of trying to be self sufficent.

 

[Stacykins]

That is unfortunate about the calf, but at least he is making the best of it by turning her into veal!

 

[Mom 2em All]

Good Morning All-

Sam be safe if you go out there to hunt.

Thanks everyone. I will be okay, not doing too bad this morning- just really really sore in the left shoulder/neck/collar bone area where the seat belt went across...
I am grateful that it wasnt worse- and therons story proves it could have been. Also, i am thankful that I wasnt shoved under the semi- because I thought that was going to happen.

Last night I got to experience cold and colder and colder and I am so thankful that I have a warm house to live in, and prayers for the homeless. We lost our power around ten- right after I posted. And the temps continued to drop all night..60 degrees this morning in here- which for me, is horrible. But the power came back on, yay

and the furnace wouldnt work. lol. We finally found the reset button- by stretching my arm behind it as far as I could reach, and blindly feeling for a button.

I feel so bad for my broodies. I went out to check them, with no heat lamp in their area. Eggs were still warm under Moms, but that doesnt tell me much. I was cold, everything feels warmer than me out there...almost. The temp is such that the waterer was frozen but I was able to poke my finger in it, and pull off the layer of ice.

Do you think the eggs will be okay? If I was homeless, that is where I would go- in that lean-to. It is mostly blocked off from all wind, just a small area where the chickens walk in at that isnt covered. Bales of straw and leaf bags stacked in front of water-resistant "black out" drapes..lol, thats what I tacked up to make the 'walls'. The other two sides are my house, so its a snug area.

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I tried putting a heat lamp out there, but it blows the power strip. I have to run it into my utility room- no outdoor outlet, and it shares with the washer and dryer, and my Christmas lighting out there.