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Another cost at the expense of my dog
Posted by Danika at 8:20 PM
If you've been reading my blog for some time now, you will know what an expensive lab we have...she is a walking accident, ringing up bill after bill, but when her and Owen are connected at the hip, what can you do?
However, this past week, her bills are now affecting me personally. She dug a nice 6 inch pot hole in our lawn, which got covered over by the lovely green grass, making it a perfect trap for me to step in while carrying a picnic out to Owen. Yep, ate it, right there in the yard in front of Owen, collapsed on my face. After 4 hours in the ER, I came home with crutches and a possible fracture. I got into a specialist right away because I couldn't bare the pain in the muscles I didn't know I had (from using the crutches). He read the x-rays and thinks it's a bad sprain but will take another x-ray in two weeks (apparently fractures can take up to 2 weeks to show up). SO, they casted me with a hard cast. So much better, could get rid of the stilts (as Owen called them.) However, it couldn't end there, not exciting enough. By that night at 6, my leg was swelling and pulsating, I could feel my heartbeat in my foot and my shin was burning. By 3 AM, I wanted to rid myself of this limb, so I drove to my parents house to get my dads cutters that he was going to leave out for me in case of an emergency...well, he forgot....so back home I went at 3 AM! I endured the horrific pain until 8 where I drove myself straight to the doctors office and they rushed me in and cut off the cast...the PA put the cast on way too tight and I had developed a hot spot on my shin and top of my foot. So at this point I was pleading to not have another hard cast put on and so, tonight I sit here with a boot on - I can deal!
And now back to tending to Owen, the chicks and my gimpy goat, who has a hurt leg (had to put meds on her hoof which turned her entire leg neon purple!)
What a weekend...not to mention, we gave my mother-in-law a surprise birthday party at my house all in the same weekend! I need a vacation!
A day with papa
Posted by Danika at 8:58 PM
Monday, May 18, 2009
Look what danika drug in...
Posted by Danika at 9:39 PM
Saturday, May 16, 2009
So, have you ever had things in life that you would love to do, maybe something you'd be when you were all grown up (but it's not what you are doing nor what you'll actually ever end up doing)? I have a few in my closet....Two things about me that might surprise you...we'll start with being a race car driver. Yep, me, Danika would have loved to be a race car driver - fast but in control...But that dream was fulfilled enough through my name becoming known when Danica Patrick joined the circuit...now I don't have to spell it quite as often or pronounce it correctly quite as frequently - enough for me. The second thing I would love to do in life is live on a farm. I was raised on one for a short time when I was young, don't remember much but the memories I'm told about (aka: getting lost in a 65 acre field when I was 18 months old and found by my dog, Brandy.)
I married a web engineer! Not sure I could keep up with farm life. But I have to say, Noah has been quite the trooper in helping me complete my little farm here in Danville. Over the past month, we've acquired 2 fish, 8 chicks and today....1 baby goat! So my farm is complete, enough for that dream to be laid to rest.
So, enjoy our latest addition to our family...Rosie the goat. Owen couldn't wait to pick her up today. She is so sweet, a bit timid right now after leaving a clan of 80 goats to come live at a home with a totally spastic dog, Izzy who thinks she's died and gone to heaven with chicks and a goat...I think she will be forever out of her depression stage (as she's been in for a year now - pathetic!) Hope you enjoy the pics...and yes Mary (Noah's mom), your son is holding a goat!
Visit with our friends
Posted by Danika at 9:19 PM


