A Tumultuous Month
This has been a tumultuous month for me and for my Beloved. We are eager for it to end and hopefully, for a better month to begin. The beginning of our January featured repetitive computer breakdowns and repairs and lost data. Some of the data I lost was research files that were intended to become posts in this blog and now I must do the research over again.
The environment produced two snow storms in our area where snow rarely falls. The result was two power outages for 2 days each time. Though we are prepared to deal with power outages and have water stored as deep well pumps cannot operate without electricity our young neighbors next door were totally unprepared.
They have moved from city to country without even contemplating what the lifestyle changes would be and what preparations to make. Unfortunately they agreed to keep horses on the property for a friend in return for money, despite the fact the fences are old and rotten and they know nothing about horses and their care. After not being fed for 14 hours (!) while the neighbors slept after partying all night, the horses escaped and were on the highway. What to do? Over the course of two weeks the horses ecaped five times.
What part of horses are not cattle or sheep with four stomachs did these people just not get? Horses have only one stomach and require frequent small feedings. When their digestive tract is empty for a lengthy period of time the microflora that digest their food die and the horses can colic and die too.
What part of the fence needs temorary eletectrification while you repair it in order to keep the horses in and off the highway did they just not get? After the first escape and catching we provided our advice. We offered the loan of an electric fencer unit and also offered to help with the fencing repairs. In return we were verbally abused once, and then abused again in a hand delivered note.
During the second snowstorm the same neighbors also had a chimney fire caused by not having the chimney cleaned and by burning green (!) wood. After that we thought it would be smooth sailing for the rest of the month but we were wrong. There was more to come.
A family member we are close to was rushed to hospital in critical condition in liver shut down. The diagnoses were hepatatitis C and a resulting cancer from it. Within 3 days cancerous masses were removed but he is terminal and requires a liver transplant. Further enquiries produced the information that the hospital receives one liver for transplant weekly but requires five. What can be done? Nothing, except to extend his life through chemotherapy and repeated surgeries to remove cancer, until a liver is available for transplant. Oh and by the way, he got MRSA while in hospital.
I am beyond the point of emotional and physical exhaustion as I type this. I am trying to keep pace with both my income producing work and blogging. The goings on I have recounted above are why I have not been publishing here. But every cloud has a silver lining and we all get by with a little help from friends.
Exactly when I needed a guest post for onecoolsite a regular reader contacted me by email and submitted one. I was so grateful to receive this outstanding post titled How a Dream Blogging Job Found Me by Cynthia of Wine, Woman and Travel and my gratitude grew as I read the responses it from my wonderful readers.
To the readers who I contacted privately to aprise them of the goings on, I say a hearfelt thank you for your support and your prayers. I appreciate you so much. In the upcoming months of 2011 I hope to be back on track when it comes to reading and commenting on your blogs again.
Would any of you readers care to share how your month went, and whether or not you are also looking forward to the arrival of February?
P.S. I’ll have another post ready for publication tomorrow.
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Sorry to hear about your January … and your family member’s illness :(
I could probably skip February forward to March! My dad passed away on Christmas morning and it has affected me more than I want to admit – mostly in work and sleeping habits. I haven’t slept a day more than 3 hours at a time, and sometimes find myself nodding off at a flip of a coin, and a long hesitation here at my desk at the computer too. Yes, that could sound nice if you have problems sleeping at night :) but it’s draining to find the energy to complete jobs if you are continually looking at it to see where you left off last time you looked at it before you had to nod off. For me, Feb is T4 season and T1 season starts Mar 1st for me. I’m still working on December stuff and have boxes of January stuff still to do.
Hello there,
I am sorry for your loss. My dad died a few years ago at the end of January. It’s so hard to lose a parent you dearly love and no one escapes the affects of grief. Life is precious and I do want to encourage you to set better eating and sleeping patterns so you don’t harm your health. But it’s difficult to find the words to express support for you during this sad time. These were words my friend sent me when I lost my dad.
“Through you, parts of your parent’s individuality and influence can thread through each day ahead, each year, adding to the tapestry of your life and the lives that follow yours. In that dedicated way, your parent will never die.” — Carol Staudacher
Like you I’m looking forward to March because spring equinox marks the beginning of spring it’s worth celebrating.
Take good care.
TiTi
Ack! I don’t think you’d really want to know how our January is going (nearly gone, hopefully for good!) And what’s happening here is nothing as bad as what you’ve been/are going through. But amongst the ‘highlights’: Our boiler decided to (a) leak – thankfully water not oil – just before Christmas meaning it has to be mopped up inside the boiler and on the floor every couple of hours. I get dizzy bending so Bruce has had to do it all and he’s exhausted. (b) run out of oil, and we’ve now waited nearly a week for a delivery that hasn’t yet arrived (one day I shall bite the oil delivery company, if someone doesn’t bite them first). We’re getting a new boiler early in February with all that entails… heating engineers, mess, cold etc.
I’ve got a new art project in the pipeline (though maybe ‘pipeline’ isn’t quite the best word to use in the circumstances), but I need a warm studio to be able to do it, so everything is delayed.
Hugs to you, TT. I’m so sorry about all that’s happening in your life at the moment.
@Val
Sadly you are officially a member of the January sucked club. It’s good to know you will be getting the boiler replaced “early” in February. The thought of being in an unheated studio almost triggers memories of being cold to the bone — cold is one of my fibro triggers.
Aside from some fiddling I have done with this theme my creative projects are also on hold. I have more recostuction work to do and reorganizing of this blog.
May all go well for you in February.
Love,
TiTi
Timethief, I am also looking forward to February and a clear start – I swear this January was really a hangover of 2010, not a new year at all! Funny you considered my guest post a saver – it was for me too – I’d been stalled out writing but your Dream Blogging Job article struck such a chord that what started as a draft comment took me into flow-state writing again for the first time in weeks. Organisation and focus have been eluding me for weeks as to-do’s pile up and to ice my cake I now have a little health scare on my hands. I have no health insurance, next to no money, and language hurdles in a country not renowned for its health care system. This is where my belief in mind over body and natural remedies will be put to a test like never before, potentially. That’s actually why I came into this site just now – to read and find resources. Take care, Timethief, big hug, it’s got to get better.
@Cynthia,
Your post would have been perfect published any day of the year because it’s authentic and because it’s so well written and informative. The fact you sent it when I was in an stressed out state and incapable of blogging made it a saver — synchronicity.
I’m sorry to hear about your health scare. For excellent information and advice go to Dr. Nicole Sundene, Naturopathic Physician’s kitchentablemedicine.com site.
Thanks so much again and may better health be just around the corner.
Love,
TiTi
TT-I hope your family member gets the transplant soon. I know every day counts. Hope your February is calmer and less crisis-stricken. I had an excellent January. No problems. Very peaceful and relaxing.
@Marty,
I appreciate and share your hopes for this to take place soon. There will be chemo and that’s certainly not pleasant but life is precious and we are all terminal. Impermanence is so hard to come to peace with. The mind comprehends it but we cling to our rejection and aversion to having a loved one depart.
Trusting you will take good care,
Love,
TiTi
Wow, they sound awful! I don’t know much about horses but one might figure they’d want to eat something in 14 hours. As to the weather I’d be really perplexed on what to do in sub zero weather, but I live in the south. I guess there’s proof there is such a thing as a rude Canadian.
I hope your family member gets the liver transplant and recovers well. That’s just terrible.
May February be much more peaceful.
For me, January has had its ups and downs. Ups in that 2 sites published some of my stuff and I have 2 more going to also, just stuff I’ve written in the past on the blog. Downs in that we ran out of money towards the end of the month and if it wasn’t for a little bit of money from eBaying and a friend, we’d have been in trouble a little, but am definitely looking forward to February !
Hi Lisa,
Well it wasn’t an isolated occasion and they say they weren’t responsible for feeding ie. the owner was. It grieves me but the situation appears to have improved a lot so I let go of my emotions arising from the whole scenario.
I’m so happy to hear your writing has been published and you have more lined up. How cool is that!
May your creativity shine in February and may your wallet bulge. :)
Love,
TiTi
Hi Timethief,
I sympathize with your January trials and for the news of your sick friend. You give me something to be grateful for, my great neighbors. I suddenly appreciate them more.
My January has been fine. The weather has stayed reasonable: what can i say it’s the Pacific North West. My projects are moving along. Growth continues to happen with great insights and learning about all the ways I sabotage myself. Seems the deeper you go the more you uncover.
And for you…your January is just a sign of a growth spurt. Growth spurts tend to happen in a time or turmoil and you don’t even notice the growth happening. But when the sun comes out in February you’ll notice the change and think a little better about your January.
It’s true.
You’ll find out tomorrow. LOL.
Nick
Hi Nick,
I’m happy to hear your January was a good one, unlike mine. Hopefully February will be a month whan everyting settles down again.
Hi TT,
Here’s hoping your February – and beyond – are exciting and smooth running.
:-)
Hi David,
I’m tired of winter too. Spring is the season of new beginnings and growth and I’m looking forward to spring equinox. Gardening is a form of therapy for me and I am eager to focus on growing things. Thanks for your visit and comment too.
Love,
TiTi
I wish you strength and contemplation TiTi. I’m sure you’re glad to have extended a helpful hand to unappreciative neighbours. If not, you will be glad.
Hart I know about losing sleep. I lost my sister a few months. So am trying to stabilize sleep. Not perfect. I just allow myself and then be grateful for the times, I can sleep deeply.
The hardest thing is that life surges ahead. I just received a card from a family of nephews and niece…how they are sprouting like tree saplings. Young teenagers.
@Jean
Thanks for your encouragement and support. I appreciate it.
Warm wishes go out to you and yours TT! I, too, am not a fan of January. (1st anniversary of my sister’s death…and it has been a rough one) You, however, are wonderful!
Dear Nards,
Thank you for your wishes. You are a wonderful friend.
I’m so sorry your sister is gone. Please accept my {cyberhug}.
With love,
TiTi