Mid-Kid and I started the day off with our time spent at the Farmer’s Market. It was another slow day but we do not grouse, we have a few regular customers and we feel confident as the produce begins to come in that things will pick up.
In the course of our morning, near the close of the event, we met a man that told us a heartbreaking story about the abduction of his then 20 year old daughter, from this area. While we cannot live in fear, talking to this father, almost two decades later about what his dear daughter went through was a reminder to all of us that evil exists and that we should not take for granted that it does not lurk in communities that we deem as safe. So if you have young ones or older ones stay vigilant to their protection. And something I Iearned years ago, from a course taught by a policewoman, it does not matter if they are female or male, both are subject to abduction and abuse. I have never forgotten the things I learned in that course and I have taught them to my daughters; always be diligent and aware of your surroundings, never go alone if you don’t have to, always look out for one another, and if you are out at night be extra diligent. We started this training when they were young so as they grew older it had become old habit.
Moving from a grim topic to the rest of the post:
I came home from the market and checked out my wet muddy garden area. I weeded a bit and then decided to leave it until Monday, hoping it would dry a bit. And while it looks a weedy mess, I am really quite pleased with what I found in and among the weeds. My biggest weedy concern will be grass…while one can tolerate the helpful weeds, the grass is kind of like the thistles…it has to go. I am hoping to get some seeds in the ground this week… we are promised more rain.
I woke up in the wee hours of the a.m. with a huge back pain. It went something like this…
I got up at 4 am in pain when I tried to roll over...and then I had to go to the bathroom...and so I struggled to get sat up (which always makes things worse...) then I struggled to sit down, and then another struggle getting off the toilet....and then walking hurt and getting back into bed hurt.......
Back in the bed and I put some heat rub on the spot that hurt and was trying to figure out how I should be laying when the phone ring...literally within a minute of getting back into bed. Mom wanted help (and I think moral support). I told her I had to get someone from upstairs to help me. I struggled out of bed (again), struggled walking, struggled up the stairs, and then into the youngest room. I was afraid I was going to fall so I had her lead me in the dark to the top of the stairs and I ever so slowly descended backwards at times thinking I was not going to make it. After a while I sat down in the glider with a left-handed tilt, that went okay but was painful a few minutes later so I struggled to get up. I went ahead and got myself back into the bed not knowing what else to do....
Many hours later, my back is a LOT better! I am still tender but over the worst of it. I have not felt well on other fronts. I am switching meds and feeling it. I have ached in all of my joints this afternoon, my ears are screaming with ringing and the light hurts my eyes so I have sat mostly in a room with the curtains drawn. I was cold for a while which means I might have had a fever but that is always kind of hard to know since my body temperature can be almost two degrees below normal. I am looking forward to going to bed tonight.