August 2006

Bay Wonder Mare in the hospital

Five second summary: Isis had colic surgery today (VERY BAD). I had written a long post about Isis being in the hospital with colic and a slippery-finger mistake caused me to delete the entire entry. It’s too raw to rewrite now. She was okay at breakfast this moring. The barn manager called me at 9:30 AM, the vet was at the barn about an hour later, and Isis was at the hospital being...

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Next day, new pain

So my neck is much better today. I can at least drive and feel like I can look over my right shoulder so I can merge into traffic. These are all good things. Unfortunately, now my back hurts from the muscle strain from yesterday. (Or something.) I did go to the doctor. She said the neck pain was probably caused by stress or other factors that had built up over time and just...

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Pain in the neck

Shortly before I left work, my neck started hurting and my back felt stiff. I woke up at approximately 2:00 with a very stiff neck. I could not turn my head to the right without catching my breath. It felt rather like someone was poking a three inch, 18 gauge needle into my vertebrae on the right side of my neck. Not fun. I called my Mom because I knew she would be...

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Research week

I’m taking some time off this week to work on research and have some much-needed down time. Hopefully, I’ll be able to coordinate with my coauthor who is also on travel this week. However, I won’t be online much because of it. Related Images:

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