Looking...

Sol Duc, Olympic National Park---another of my favorite places :)

Looking for peace today and hoping serendipity will drop some previously unseen beauty & joy while I'm soldiering on with the daily... :)

The last two days have been pretty rough. Both emotionally and physically.

No planting on Wednesday, instead a flying trip into the vet to meet mom, her horse Shadow was going in for a routine procedure (floating her teeth) and there was a problem with the anesthesia and she hit the ground 0.3 nanoseconds after the shot and started doing the fish on the concrete...vet didn't even get the needle fully plunged...Shadow is doing quite a bit better now but when mom called, it was looking very grim. She's all banged up and she spent the night at the vet's for observation but it's lots better than it was, my poor mom, that is her BABY!
So, what happened was when the vet gave Shadow the shot he missed the vein and hit the artery, the anesthetic went straight to her brain and she immediately fell down in the posts (at the vet's) and seizured and thrashed on the concrete floor for quite awhile it was horrible. So in addition to all the neural/muscular problems with the shot gone wrong she's all banged up & torn up from the fall and has numerous scrapes & cuts from the concrete floor. She's got a huge purple & red goose egg above her left eye. Looks like she lost a bar fight, poor horsie! They kept her for 24 hour observation and the vet said he was STILL going to float her teeth.
Then yesterday we were finally given the green light to pick up Shadow, talk about one of the *worst* vet visits ever...but she hopefully has a full recovery. Just wondering...Who pays when something like this happens? I mean besides the poor animal and the trauma to the owner, does this mean my mom has to foot the bill for the emergency care that wouldn't have been needed if the vet hadn't screwed up?

 Well, it turns out they didn't float her teeth (the vet said he was going to) and they socked mom 75 bucks for almost killing her horse & then saving her by the mostly luck. BRADY VET, your decision making, financial decisions AND vet skills concerning this incident SUCK!

Shadow is home and seems to be recovering but she's pretty "flighty" right now and who could really blame her!

In the midst of all this, yesterday was a 2 at the same time full vicodine day. Very bad. Things are better today in that department so yay. Any improvement is an improvement.

Trying to get stuff ready for planting and get back into the studio and hoping I don't have to try to go to the ER to attempt to get some relief.

I'm a little worried but I'm trying to ignore the pain and the rest of it...ok, gotta go try to do something now...