From Thursday I was waiting for Pandora to give birth. I watched her almost around the clock, but her one and only son saw day light while I was a sleep, early this morning.
I thought she was pregnant from 2 babies at least, the more surprising it was to find out that Pandora gave birth to one healthy but very large son.
Mother and son are OK; she accepts her baby and the baby is already drinking and trying to eat some hay.
More pictures to follow the next weeks :D
Maybe you wonder why I didn’t update the blog for a few months? Well, I missed inspiration and got sic from the daily “bla bla” with not that much content. I couldn’t imagine that people wanted to read this kind of crap.
On the other hand I wanted to spent less time online and now most days I don’t turn the PC on after 6 P.M. which was a great decision! :D
There have been a few important changes in my live:
I needed Seroquel to get some sleep, each night. It made me drowsy and sleepy during the day. In fact I slept 12 hours from the 24 in a day. I couldn’t without them, being a bi-polar person.
After a few years on drugs and doing pretty well (no hyper-periods in my live for a few years) I so desperately wanted to be without the drugs! I new the most important thing for me is living a regular live and avoiding stress - even positive stress.
So a while ago I did some online research on melatonin and discussed this with my doctor. You should know that the use of melatonin is not as wide spread here as in the U.S.
Serotonin, noradrenalin and melatonin work in kind of circle together so that’s why I wondered if melatonin would be the drug of choice for me. When my serotonin levels change I might get severely depressed or get seriously hyper (followed with a deep depression).
2 Months ago I kicked the Seroquel aside and started with melatonin, since then I only needed once a very low “homeopathic” dose of Seroquel. I’m so happy that I can do without these drugs!
The best changes are: getting awake early in the morning without needing 4 mugs of coffee and a walk with the dog before I realize I’m a human ;-) and feeling sleepy early in the evening and fall a sleep even faster than when I was on Seroquel.
Seroquel seriously knocked me out, I even didn’t hear alarm clocks, not even when I used three of them in a row ;-) Since I quit Seroquel and started to use melatonin I get out of bed early in the morning (well, most mornings heh) and I’m able to give Tammy a hand. Tammy runs a Guinea pig shelter. She is a friend of mine for several years, but I was never able to give her a hand on a regular basis. Can you imagine how much fun it is to scoop poop (and pee) from about a 100 piggies early in the morning? Being around Tammy and her other volunteer is so much fun that scooping poop isn’t that bad anymore :-) For me it’s kind of victory being able to scoop poop heh. ;-)
My own group of cavies grew over the last months. I added some youngsters and also an old breeder female to the group. The last comes from the shelter and was hard to find a home for - age, not so wanted breed and anti-social behavior towards other cavies. She fitted very well in my group so she stayed. This week I expect also a litter Merino piggies. My own female Pandora is pregnant from (what I think) 3 little piglets. I see and feel them move in her belly and I even can hear them!
OK guys, this is enough for now, don’t you think so? I’ll update my blog now more regularly, even if the content is only “bla bla” according to me. My site statistics showed that despite I didn’t update the blog for a long time I had regular visitors, so I guess my bla bla was appreciated?
Have a nice day to you all!
First I would like to tell you about my dad. He is home now but still not 100%. I spoke him several times on the phone before I was able to visit him. He complained a lot about serious pain. It worried me and I wondered if I should intervene, for instance by contacting his doctor. When I saw him, the difference between an week earlier and that visit was as the difference between day and night. What a relief, but now three weeks after his emergency ride to the hospital he still is in pain. I’m not sure if it’s real pain, or that it’s a feeling like ants crawling over his chest. Hard to understand how severe it is and how much he suffers. I’ll visit him this weekend and I hope I have some good news for you!
About me, basically I hate house hold cleaning.
My dad was rushed to the nearest hospital last weekend, while being unconscious for maybe an hour.
Life was tough on me last week. This is the main reason I didn’t update this blog, nor uploaded pictures on my Flickr account.
After being monitored on the Medium Care Unit for a few days Dad was allowed to go home on Thursday. Almost sure it’s a neurological problem, but he left the hospital without diagnosis. He still is in a lot of pain, probably muscle pain caused by seizures.
It’s raining dogs and cats since the last time I updated this weblog. I love autumn but not in July and August! Temperature doesn’t come over 63 F, is that sad or sad?
Today I’m wearing a fleece shirt and winter socks! It’s not the first time this summer I need them. But there is hope, the weather forecast tells us that in about 2 days temps finally will rise up to 75 F and it will be less cloudy!
I’ll tell you, an other day with rain and I need these!
Updated “the day after”:
The debarked oak fascinated me (and others). This is what I found with Google:
Because of their height, trees are a prime target for lightning. However, damage caused by lightning varies greatly. The damage may be minimal if the electricity is conducted along the outside of the tree. In this case, blown off bark and scarring will be apparent. The damage may extend to a more serious condition known as trunk shatter. In this event, lightning charge penetrates into the tree’s trunk, turning moisture into steam and causing the tree to explode. The most commonly struck trees are oaks, elms, poplars and pines.
Today we had a severe thunderstorm. Within half an hour the total amount of monthly rain fell. Curious how it looks like after half an hour of rain?
Not only the heavy rain caused trouble, but the lightning also affected the communication systems from police and fire men. The control center was hit by lightning!
A few years ago I had major damage indoors during a thunderstorm (in fact it happened twice that summer). Everything, including light switches suffered an instant death. Despite this, I’m not afraid of lightning, but I take measurements to keep safe. I just wanted to call my Mom (”Hi Mom, are you enjoying the view too?”) as I heard the lightning** hit something very close to my apartment. When I looked out of my kitchen window I saw 2 men pointing into the other direction.
I “knew” it was going to happen, I waited for it to happen… but after that loud bang I was shaking and trembling… I never get used to that sound.
This is what happened:
In the picture above, you can see a window (on the left, middle). Just below is my frontdoor. It was that close! I had no damage as far as I know, not even by electric magnetic fields… sigh.
** It’s true, you can hear lighting when it hits something very close to you… it’s not only the thunder that accompanies the lightning at the same time but the thunder sounds different, like metal to metal….
The new arrivals a few hours after I got home with them. Both are females, about 6 months old. I’m sure that when they have setlled in, you’ll see more and better pictures from them.
Well, about the stray baby cavy. The day after I wrote the post it got severe watery diarrhea. Nothing that could stop it. Coccidiosis probably was the culprit. It deteriorated very fast and it was clear to me it wasn’t fair to let him suffer any longer, so we helped the little one a bit to go to the “other side”. That sucked, really! Knowing that I would loose the battle anyhow… it was something it had to be done… but it was hard to do because it was so young!
The weather is still bad for the time of the year. “Cold” and rainy with periods with a lot of wind. Ilja still restricted to pee-and-poop-walks tries to popcorn even on al short leash. I feel so sorry for her, but on the other hand, I have the feeling that her knee is better than last week. Still a week to go before she is allowed to walk a bit more… *if* her knee isn’t painful anymore at that time. The weather forecast tells temps are rising at the end of the week. That would be great as higher temperatures slow her down and that is safer when I start exercising her…
When a friend heard the little cavy was put to sleep, a family member from her offered me 2 of her females. I happily welcomed them in my house. The girls are about 6 months young and are still settling in. I’ll post some pictures later for you, as I know you hardly can’t wait to see them.
They have names given by the previous owner, but I might change them. More about that later too.
|
