The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[ShrekDawg]

Kelsey, stay off Google!

Surprisingly I haven’t been on Google once!! Haha I can get myself all worked up all by myself over nothing

 

[sourland]

Surprisingly I haven’t been on Google once!! Haha I can get myself all worked up all by myself over nothing

Practice makes perfect ?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Good advice @Blooie

Definitely! Although surprisingly I wasn’t on Google this time haha just natural anxiety unfortunately. :/ but I’m okay now ha been watching TV and calming down. Still need to drink some more though.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Practice makes perfect ?

That’s true. Definitely need to work on it haha

 

[rjohns39]

Definitely! Although surprisingly I wasn’t on Google this time haha just natural anxiety unfortunately. :/ but I’m okay now ha been watching TV and calming down. Still need to drink some more though.

KD, people can often get sick when visiting a new environment. Local virulent bugs that your body hasn't built immunity for. And it's perfectly normal. When I was in the military and we'd deploy to a new place, it was an absolute certainty that many would be sick by day 3. We just coped. Funnily enough, if you read Joel Salatin's info on interns, he warns everyone that they will get violently sick within 3 days to 3 weeks of being on the farm. It's nothing to be worried about and unfortunately something that needs to be dealt with, yet you can't let it complicate other systems. I've learned over time that it is largely mind over matter. If you dwell on feeling bad, you'll feel worse. When folks got sick in Okinawa during the summer, we'd put a 5 gallon jug of water in their shelter. And we'd harp on replenishing liquids lost. And it worked. It's all about taking command of your body, giving it what it needs and not letting it set the rules. Hard to do, but a learnable thing. How many Moms do you know who quit caring for their kids when they are sick? They just get over it. You can too.

 

[sharron]

Thank you @sourland and @Blooie I appreciate it.

I am feeling a bit better now. I was a little bit nauseous again on the boat ride but barely so I just breathed deep and also sat inside in the AC away from the engine and movement and was fine haha kinda came in waves. And then eventually near the end of the ride (an hour and 20 minutes, we took the 10am ferry), I started sipping on some water. I did a little bit this morning too but didn’t really start until the boat ride and now car drive home. My mom also got me a plain soft salted pretzel from the cafe on the ferry so I’ve been slowly nibbling on that and we stopped at a gas station and got some crackers too (saltines). So long story short I’ve been very slowly sipping water and nibbling crackers and a soft pretzel and so far have been able to keep it down so I’d say that’s probably a good sign. Still got sore joints/body aches though so the car is a bit uncomfortable but it’s alright, better than being really sick like this morning ha

My dad is unfortunately not so lucky and still pretty sick. And very vocal about it ha but I’m sure he will be fine too soon enough. He is also driving though so it is worse.

It’s definitely a bad one but we did make it on the ferry and are finally almost home I think.

The good news is I have been able to keep some stuff down. My dad has been able to keep some ginger ale and a bit of water down but is still feeling pretty sick.

I think when we get back I might take an epsom salt bath or something to try to draw any additional toxins out and to maybe just ease my joints and back a little bit. It also happens to be that time, that started last night, so a bit of an unfortunate double whammy. But I am slowly starting to feel better. I think I’m just still a bit beat down from being so sick this morning so it probably takes time to get fully up to par again ha

But that’s not gonna stop me from doing my chores. Gotta check the chickens and water the garden. Did both before I left and left them with multiple sources of food and water as well as oyster shell and grit plus DB checked them the other day but still need to check them. The garden probably desperately needs water but hopefully it will be okay. I watered it a lot before we left.

hope you're feeling a lot better, that has to be the pits

 

[DigMyChicks]

KD, people can often get sick when visiting a new environment. Local virulent bugs that your body hasn't built immunity for. And it's perfectly normal. When I was in the military and we'd deploy to a new place, it was an absolute certainty that many would be sick by day 3. We just coped. Funnily enough, if you read Joel Salatin's info on interns, he warns everyone that they will get violently sick within 3 days to 3 weeks of being on the farm. It's nothing to be worried about and unfortunately something that needs to be dealt with, yet you can't let it complicate other systems. I've learned over time that it is largely mind over matter. If you dwell on feeling bad, you'll feel worse. When folks got sick in Okinawa during the summer, we'd put a 5 gallon jug of water in their shelter. And we'd harp on replenishing liquids lost. And it worked. It's all about taking command of your body, giving it what it needs and not letting it set the rules. Hard to do, but a learnable thing. How many Moms do you know who quit caring for their kids when they are sick? They just get over it. You can too.

Double like!

 

[ShrekDawg]

KD, people can often get sick when visiting a new environment. Local virulent bugs that your body hasn't built immunity for. And it's perfectly normal. When I was in the military and we'd deploy to a new place, it was an absolute certainty that many would be sick by day 3. We just coped. Funnily enough, if you read Joel Salatin's info on interns, he warns everyone that they will get violently sick within 3 days to 3 weeks of being on the farm. It's nothing to be worried about and unfortunately something that needs to be dealt with, yet you can't let it complicate other systems. I've learned over time that it is largely mind over matter. If you dwell on feeling bad, you'll feel worse. When folks got sick in Okinawa during the summer, we'd put a 5 gallon jug of water in their shelter. And we'd harp on replenishing liquids lost. And it worked. It's all about taking command of your body, giving it what it needs and not letting it set the rules. Hard to do, but a learnable thing. How many Moms do you know who quit caring for their kids when they are sick? They just get over it. You can too.

Thanks, that makes total sense, and I can totally see how that would happen but I’ve never been sick in new environments before or experienced anything like that before so I really think it was just food poisoning or something. Especially considering my dad and I both had the exact same symptoms at the same time and it started only a few hours after we ate out. We went to dinner like 8 or so or maybe a bit before so probably eating between then and 9ish. My dad started getting sick by like 11 or 12, I was fine until about 3:30. But it started mere hours after we ate the same thing so idk. Could be the new location thing too but I now think I was just being paranoid and it probably was food poisoning. Especially because we all ordered different things but had one thing in common: the smoked salmon at this barbecue place. And it was delicious so my dad and I both ate a lot of it. My mom only had a few bites. I didn’t order it but my mom and dad did and my other food was kinda weird so my mom gave me most of her salmon (she got a combo platter with a ton of chicken too so it was fine. And I still ate my food) and I liked it so I ate it as did my dad. We both got extremely sick. My mom got a little nauseous today but nothing like we were and I believe that’s because she only had a few bites of it. But we all have the same food in common and it happened hours after we ate said food which is kind of weird if it’s the location thing. Especially since I’m completely fine now. Besides still being a little achey/sore still and burning up. And binging on a migraine but I believe that’s from said burning up and just sitting around trying to cool off. But the actual sickness part is gone. And now that it’s cooling off I might go back outside for a bit. But idk, I do appreciate the help in trying to figure it out, and I definitely can be a hypochondriac sometimes and/or panic and freak out over nothing which is definitely what I was doing with the chest thing and dehydration and stuff, it’s an easy enough fix and I was probably freaking out over nothing, but I’ve also had heat stroke before which was not fun at all and known people who have had to be IV’d for dehydration so I guess I am just a little more paranoid than most. The anxiety also contributes to that. And a lot of other problems. Honestly that probably does effect my health. I freak out over a lot of stuff/am generally pretty stressed out which probably does not help anything and I’ll also be the first one to admit I kind of sort of might have a major problem with health anxiety and manage to freak out and work myself into panic attacks over stupid stuff quite a bit. Which I definitely need to work on. And I am trying to. But it’s hard. But anyway, all the little stuff after was stupid, cause of course I won’t need to be hospitalized if I just keep drinking/ingesting fluids and electrolytes and the chest thing is probably just my asthma but I honestly think that probably contributed at least a little bit to the anxiety because it was so tight and I felt I couldn’t breathe which may have caused some panic but now it’s better. Still a little tight but better. So I’m over it now, thanks. Oh and also I know it sounds like I panicked and freaked out on here and stuff, which I totally did, but I did still do all my responsibilities when I got home. I didn’t just plant in front of the TV or phone and ignore the animals or quit caring for them or anything. I did all that first and then sat down. And honestly normally no matter how sick I am I always do that first but this time.... idk. I’ve never been that sick before. The aches and all that stuff I was over reacting. And I do have an extremely low pain tolerance tbh. sometimes I can be a huge baby. I admit that lol but I swear this one I am not exaggerating how extremely sick I was last night and into this morning ha my dad can vouch I think possibly being that sick made me a little more anxious or under the weather mentally or something cause I feel like I freaked out more than normal over the extremely minor (in comparison) symptoms but it was miserable this morning haha but I’m on the up and up I think haha oh and also even though I freaked out, sometimes I think I also kind of freak out because I’m paranoid about what if I thought it was nothing and didn’t do anything but then it was actually something serious. Lots of cases like that. Might be part of why I sometimes have such bad anxiety over it. Or maybe it’s just my personality haha I do find that really interesting about the new environment thing though because I never would have guessed and it’s so odd yet interesting but makes sense. But the weird thing is I’ve always been fine. I mean, I’ve been to Canada, Florida, and the Bahamas at least a few times each, all over all of the New England states tons (well, haven’t been to some of them as much), New York (including NYC several times), Pennsylvania tons, airplanes, trains, cars, etc. and I’ve never once gotten sick. Even when I first moved into college I was fine. The most I ever get is sometimes I get a migraine or something. But I never get violently ill like that and barely even get colds. I’ve had the flu several times and that’s miserable too but even then I’ve never been that violently ill. Although I did get food poisoning one other time and that really sucked too but was still nothing compared to this. So idk it’s weird. I do wonder though, if maybe the other places aren’t new and there aren’t new pathogens there since I’ve been there so many times?? Like PA I’ve been to a million times and the college was in PA so maybe that’s why? Cause I’ve never once been to Long Island before and it is an island so I wonder if maybe it could be the location thing since I’ve never been there?? And we took a ferry over both ways. I do find it kind of odd though that my dad got the exact same symptoms at the exact same time. And that it wasn’t until the last day/night. Very odd for sure ha also my dad is still in bed. And he has been extremely vocal about it the whole time, complaining and moaning and such, and having to let everyone know how sick he is constantly, while I didn’t even wake anyone up when I got sick all those times and just fixed myself up and got back in bed every time so I don’t always make a huge deal out of stuff. Not that my way is better or anything, I mean it is a nasty illness, so maybe I should complain, but I’m not normally much of a complainer. Even when I work myself into panic attacks I usually just deal with it myself and don’t tell anyone and then I’m fine eventually. This time I did mention it but mostly just because I wanted to be careful and make sure that it was nothing. Figured it probably was but felt really bad, worse than usual, and didn’t want to just dismiss it if it was actually a problem. That thing about salatin is interesting too though. I didn’t realize he had interns.

 

[N F C]

Hope you’re feeling better by now, Kelsey.

Gonna get these other slippers painted blue this morning then that’s done. I’ve got the girls this afternoon and evening so want the slippers done and dry before they get here. Ken’s taking all of this water over to Tam’s to store because I’m just flat out of room here. He decided he wanted something different for our head table, so he picked up a lighthouse as a centerpiece. I have no clue what I’m supposed to do with a light-up lighthouse to make it look halfway decent, but if it’s tacky he wants, it’ll be tacky he gets. The dinner that night is a “black tie” affair, and we don’t care where they wear the tie or what they wear it with! It can be a black ribbon around an arm, a formal black tux tie with a t-shirt and jeans, a black bow in the hair, but anyone not wearing one will be fined $5.00 and that money goes into the Job’s Daughter’s Travel Fund. So I suppose a tacky centerpiece for the head table is okay.

Weather forecast for Cheyenne is supposed to be severe thunderstorms every evening. Goody! An outdoor ceremony with rain, wind and possible hail. I can hardly wait.

Debby, it’s wonderful that you at last have a right hand you can count on. I’m glad she came back to help out.

Kenny is going over to the Care Center where Tammy works today. She found a box with a ton of Hawaiian stuff in it and decided that her residents would love an outdoor luau. She does so many things to break the monotony of being old and in a facility - she has her annual carnival, she does MardiGras, they have painting classes on Friday night, and they’re having an art show and sale - complete with black ties for the men, and the ladies in frilly hats and white gloves - and the proceeds go to fund next year’s carnival. Today a Kenny will be cooking chicken on the grill, pineapple slices, and Tam made a ton of “Poi-tater salad”. She looked on line and bought some fancy drink “glasses” that look just like halved coconut shells, complete with straws and little umbrellas, so that’s what she serving Hawaiian mocktails in. I love her for her many reasons, but her compassion and respect for those she cares for in assisted living goes way above and beyond her job description. Kenny says he is more than happy to do the cooking, but he’s not wearing a grass skirt! Says it’s too windy.

Better get at it here. The girls will be here at 3. @bruceha2000, if they do allow visitors, better bring a suitcase.

B, if I ever have to go to a senior's home, I hope someone like Tam will be there. What a wonderful, caring person (I think she must take after her mother).

About that lighthouse, better put a black tie on it so you don't get fined!

KD, people can often get sick when visiting a new environment. Local virulent bugs that your body hasn't built immunity for. And it's perfectly normal. When I was in the military and we'd deploy to a new place, it was an absolute certainty that many would be sick by day 3. We just coped. Funnily enough, if you read Joel Salatin's info on interns, he warns everyone that they will get violently sick within 3 days to 3 weeks of being on the farm. It's nothing to be worried about and unfortunately something that needs to be dealt with, yet you can't let it complicate other systems. I've learned over time that it is largely mind over matter. If you dwell on feeling bad, you'll feel worse. When folks got sick in Okinawa during the summer, we'd put a 5 gallon jug of water in their shelter. And we'd harp on replenishing liquids lost. And it worked. It's all about taking command of your body, giving it what it needs and not letting it set the rules. Hard to do, but a learnable thing. How many Moms do you know who quit caring for their kids when they are sick? They just get over it. You can too.

Hear hear!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Double like!

I had never heard of that new location thing though totally makes sense. Although actually I didn’t really realize it said bug before haha like 24 hour bug? Figured maybe it was like bacteria or something that takes longer to build up or whatever ha could definitely be that. But a bit odd it only occurred on the last night and at the same time though no? Idk. Whatever it was I think it’s wrapping up thankfully ha