I woke up and was in agony with my leg. Such pathetic superficial wounds but my foot was numb and then pins and needles, it felt like there was glass in my knee joint and I got a shooting pain from my ankle right up to my thigh. It took me a good half hour to be able to place any weight on it at all, then I hobbled as badly as Hoby had a week ago. I managed to feed all the animals, albeit slowly. Ella was very concerned and followed me around, gently touching me with her velvet nose. Nigel was in fine form and chased me yet again, I fended him off but it hurts my feelings that he continues to be like this. I know he is a chook and I'm a human but I would've thought he'd have a tiny scrap of loyalty in that body of his.
I then did a very responsible thing....I went to the doctor. He prescribed some antibiotics and confirmed that I had an infection in my knee, nothing more sinister like nerve damage (which I ad feared due to the shooting pain). He suggested a chicken meal for dinner and I considered it but Nigel lives to see yet another day.
Ella made a quick dash for freedom in the afternoon when Sam opened the front gates to drive out. Ella wasn't even up the driveway but decided to gallop past him, the car and the trailer to the nice juicy grass on the un-mown verge outside. It took a LOT of delicious morsels to convince her to come back home. Obviously the diet isn't that popular with her.
I must admit my diet wasn't so successful today. I'm sure I consumed two days worth of calories and didn't exercise at all. My leg is very painful, I've had two doses of anti-biotics and taken it easy today which has been good for my body but not my mind.
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