Ever hear of it? I was diagnoised 12 years ago with asthma, very mild, just bad allergies. This last week I got a sore throat and then boom I was sick with what I thought was bronchitis so I went to the DR and he said I had asthmatic bronchitis. I asked is that bronchitis and he said well you can call it that I said is it asthma and he said it’s both. I have family memebers who have asthma and end up in the hospital. I remember going to visit my oldest sister many times when we were kids because she was asthmatic and would end up with phneumonia. My dad was a regular ER patient and my oldest sister’s son is in and out of the ER as well. I never even considered what I had as asthma and have used my inhailer maybe 12 times in 12 years. This year I have used it twice this spring and now this, I think farm life is more hazordous than people let on. My doctor says about 90% of AB is brought on by a virus and 10% is from bacteria but it makes me wonder when I have been around all that old chicken poo dirt and dust. I am on antibiotics and steroids ( joy ) and am using my inhailer 4 times a day. I have to keep a list on the table to keep track of everything since I already take high bloodpressure meds times 2. Old age sucks! I just had another birthday and I don’t want this year to fly by like the rest. I just watched something on NET and the guy said. Grandkids are your reward for not killing your kids. I think I am just too old and wobbly for farm life and small town life is pretty boring so I am still making plans to move back to the big city. I close up shop June 30 and then I am retiered ( unemployed is more like it ) I am researching Ebay to see what I can do on there. It would be so nice to work from home and be around to hang out with my grandkids before they get to the age that they don’t think I am so cool anymore : ) I need to get over this crud first and hopfully this isn’t singleing a more severe asthma for me. I have seen what bad asthma is like and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. Hope you are all healthy…Kathryn
ANOTHER ROUND OF BAD WEATHER IN THE MIDWEST
What a fun night again. My daughter up in the big city was in her basement the all clear was called and then the sirens were on again an hour later. Here we had a fantastic ( I don’t know if that is the right word here ) Lightning storm and the super cell creating all the problems was sitting right over the farm. Darrel said we should be there riding out the storm with the crew ( animals ) and I went ya right. We both have to be in town today and I may not be able to go back out till Friday night ( my birthday ) since I am in the process of selling out and need to catch up on some paperwork and show the ladies how to do it. Two of my cats are out there and one is terrified of storms. Pea has stayed on the farm and comes in at night now so I have been leaving her there. Sure hope they are ok. It used to be that if you had a bad thunderstorm you moved the car inside the garage and got out the lantern or candles. Now everytime there is a storm you have to be ready to spend all evening in the basement. Here I have a nice finished basement with a hidabed bathroom and TV, at the farm there is storage and mice, the cell phones won’t even work out there in the house. The weather said this morning tonight may be the worst night for bad weather since a system that produces those super cells in heading back into the state. I hope we make it ok through this season, even the farmers are still sitting with overturned pivots in almost every field around Darrel’s place. Not good since they aren’t dry land farmers. You would think that with all the rain they wouldn’t be necessary but there is alot of clay around out there and one guy 1 section away lost half his crops in the last storm. Between gas prices and weather issues like late plantuing and flooding and storms food prices will keep inching up. I watched something on TV about a food give away program called Second Harvest going unfunded in a couple of months at the time they were in one of the smaller towns here hit by the tornado, one lady on there with an 8 year old waiting inline said it was getting hard to feed her children because the price of a gallon of milk was the same as a gallon of gas. And she had to choose to have a phone and computer or food. I know the government wants us to believe we are not in recession but what is it if it isn’t the beginning of one? When you cant afford to have food and a phone and gas all at the same time, then your electric natural gas and house are in danger too. Bush needs to get out of his car and get his butt back to the whitehouse and start a plan and the next person coming in needs to take the reins and see to it that this ends before it becomes a depression. So here I have come from storms to money and I think I am done rambling for the day. I need to get back to the paperwork and see what D has in mind for tonight. Stay safe. See you tomorrow…Kathryn
STORM DAMAGE
Well we are back from the farm, Darrels kids own an auction house and they have an auction tonight so he is off to help there while I REST!!! I am worn out from all the cleaning up after the storm. I am sure mother nautere is plenty mad about something because she is raising hell. I know the damage here compared to Kartrina, or Myanmar or China is nothing but it is amazing to see what wind can do. People here in my town were hit, and out by Darrels with F3 F2 and then F1. Darrels nieghbor had a 100 yearold mulberry tree fall across there drive and it was soo hugh and tree trimers are soo busy that they had to hire someone to come in and just cut a driveway size hole out of the trunk so they could get in and out. Darrel lost several big limbs and several smaller trees that mark off the yard from field. One fell right on a chicken coop and tiller he had parked there the day he left to come to town after weeding the garden, any other time it would have been in the corn crib. Anyway the coop kinda of saved the tiller and the tin roof on the coop saved the coop so all in all damage was limited. We went out to the lake to fish the other night and saw alot of damage. and when we were coming home around midnight we say a small calf running down the road scared as could be. I wanted to catch him but Darrel said we never would cause he was too scared so we drove on home. No fish, no cows. We will be heading back tomorrow to finish cleaning up and burning. Mother nature is awesome and dangerous. I sure hope she is done thowing her wait around for a while. I feel blessed that no one I know has been hurt or lost thier homes, and I will pray for everyone who has. I saw outside of town here they intrerviewed a farmer about his family homestead no one lived on it but his daughter was going to be moving in in 2 weeks to care for it. When the tornado hit it wiped out the house and most of the buildings and he was crying during the interview and said it wasn’t that someone needed the place for a home they all had homes but it was just that it has stood there for so long and in 2 minutes it was gone. Just like that It was very sad, it was said to see a 100 yearold tree down and a 90 yearold chicken coop that has stood all this time with a big tree laying on it. It was sad to see birdnests and dead bird thrown around by the wind, and sad that 110 people have died in the storms this season so far. I will pray for you to have a peacful summer…Kathryn
