Sweet Sweet Pain Relief, Tradeoffs, Bird Feed, Seeds, Practice, Tra...

Yesterday morning was crap again from the pain. Thankfully I had hydros to temper the spikes but the ache was still there. I got the boys to school then spent the next couple hours biding my time until I had to leave for the dentist. I stopped and picked Hive account@stryeyz up from work so she could listen with a clear head to the doctor as my head was super muddy from the pain.

He listened to me explain my pain and quickly he knew it was dry sockets. The nurse washed out the 2 holes with a syringe of saline and my mouth filled with chunks and brown liquid. She said I had done a good job of keeping everything clean so despite my near gagging at the effluent it was not bad. She then packed this stuff into the holes which tasted like a clove gone rancid and coated my tongue for much of the day. Within a short time the pain was going away and the ache from the swelling was all I was feeling.

It truly changed my life. The past week I have barely been able to think and when I could it was not very clearly. The pain would stop me in my tracks and my entire being would focus on it until it lessened for a while. My mind cleared within a couple hours of seeing the dentist and I started to regain my appetite which had been nonexistent for the past week.

The stuff tasted so awful but the tradeoff is either pain or bad taste, and I know which I far and away prefer.

After picking the boys up from school I headed up to get the tote of bird feed from Kaniksu. I talked to Wade a bit and he said that they have had a HUGE amount of new customers since this whole chicken feed issue has blown up. I feel good in that I have been getting feed from them for over 13 years and know the quality is A+. The feed is milled in North Idaho and totes are trucked over once a week so orders need to be in well ahead of time.

The north part of Spokane county, looking west towards Deer Park. I have a number of ideas rumbling around my head for once I am paragliding. There is towing as a way to fly which needs wide open spaces and little obstructions nearby with a mile plus straight line to drive. There a LOT of areas like that in the north part of the county and later this summer I am going to be trying to find some places that will be conducive to it, both the land and the people. The tow mechanics are not hard to develop and I have a few plans saved already.

The feed all got loaded into barrels in the coop. I filled two 50 gallon drums and 2.5 garbage cans with it then made sure to cover all the cans well as the mice are voracious.

Such good quality feed. This is the free range layer and one of the cheapest they have. The 1000 pounds is $350 but it is non-gmo and corn free and well worth the money. Between the brewing grains and the feed the birds eat REALLY well. Once the tote was empty I parked the trailer for a while so I could get the boys to practice without having to tow it along with me.

I got my seeds for the toothache plants and will be starting some of each today. I am going to have a whole heap of more work done in my mouth so it will be really nice to have this growing. Plus with the boys and their teeth it will be handy for sure.

I took the boys to wrestling practice then headed home quickly.

I am using Bluestacks as an Android emulator which is where I do my Duolingo and Mimo programming lessons on my computer. I found Skillshare and in it I found a great class "Sketching Fundamentals - Learn basic drawing techniques for nature" by Julia Bausenhardt. It is a nearly 8 hour class with about 60 videos and I am starting working my way through it. I have NEVER been able to draw but have always wanted to so I am going to work my way through this class with my other 2.

I hooked the trailer back up once I was back and it was near 7pm when Hive account@stryeyz got home from work and the stores. During the day I had finished off some Silk yogurt and I went looking for other high protein yogurt when I found the Ripple brand milk that is non-dairy and has 8 grams of protein per cup. She picked up a few bottles for me and I tried it this morning and it is OUTSTANDING!!! I am totally sold on the stuff as it is something I can actually intake despite my lack of desire to eat.

I took my medication after getting the trailer done and she picked the boys up from practice.

I slept through the night last night!!!! I woke for the bathroom but not pain and I am so happy about it. I had gotten to dreading sleep as I knew it meant waking in intense pain. Now I have to deal with my skin which is flaring a bit again.

I have been to town for 9 barrels of grain this morning already and after getting the boys to school I will have to figure out how to get them emptied. I can't back the trailer into the garden so I have to load the barrels into the truck and then mob it into the still snow covered garden. I have to look back at my pics from November to see where I stopped spreading the grain prior to the snows so I am not covering areas I have already spread it on.