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RayP(MI)

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Monday: Mow hay.

Tuesday: Go to hospital, get pacemaker/defibrillator installed. I hurt!

Wednesday: Rake hay - single handedly - left hand not much use.I hurt!

Thursday: Bale hay. Wife drove tractor. Hired young man to load wagons (3). I supervised. hopped off wagon numerous
times to tie knots missed by baler. Am as tired as if I had loaded wagons myself. Young couple, friends
unloaded and mowed two wagons, third in polebarn will be fed directly. Said a prayer thanking God for good
friends - He does hear prayers from polebarns? I hurt! Left hand still painful to move. Lifting out of
question. Hope I can get some sleep tonite.

Friday: Cut hay - haven't we been there before?

Saturday: Son coming to get a load of straw from his neighbor. Hay drying.

Sunday: Raking hay?

Monday: Baling hay? Maybe I can do it myself?

Tuesday: Get my device checked.
 
My wife had one put in this summer. She just is now getting over the soreness. She is having some healing issues with the op site. So I would not be pushing it too much or you will be in worse shape.
 
Please don't take this as ridicule but you could be headed for trouble. I have had a pacemaker since 1998 because of 3rd degree heart block(heart stops). I have had one replacement since then. The leads have to have time for dermal tissue to grow around them to anchor which takes about two weeks. If you are lifting or very active and one of the leads is broken you could be in serious trouble.
 
RayP(MI)- Ya might want to take it a little bit easier. If one of those leads work out of place...you will be in for the shock of your life.

Take care of yourself.
 
I know it's hay rush, but you might slow down a little. Take a day and and work in the shed.

When I went back for my follow up after I had the fourth surgery on this left knee the doctor was a little miffed at me. It didn't go over well when I said, "I'll bet I tore those stitches out getting in the tractor. I felt something ripping that first time." That was the point when he said that he couldn't do anything else to resurrect that knee. It's "live with it until they replace it" time.

What do they expect a farmer to do - take time off like everyone else? We already plan these sorts of things for a slow time of year if we possibly can. That doesn't mean a DEAD time of year!

The other day the rheumatologist told me that I was in the wrong line of work for someone with my diagnosis. He said I should be swimming in a heated pool - I'm just wearing my body out too fast farming. I can't think of anything worse than swimming in a heated pool when these beans are almost ready to cut. I came right home and smashed a finger just to show him.
 
notjustair: I have seen too many farmers end up cripples because they would not allow themselves time to heal. Your knee surgery is an example of that. You pushed it too soon and that made it not work. I know the pressures of farming but I also know that it is UP to you to push yourself when you do not have too.
 
From a guy whose been to the edge, My goodness the hay will wait or doesn't need to be put up. You are way more important to the people around you than a bunch of darn hay. I literally almost worked myself to death @ 47, now I work darn hard just not crazy.
 
My cousin is one of those cripples, went back to milking after knee surgery because his knee felt good and ruined the repair and wasn't much else they could do...He doesn't walk very far now, limit is about 50 feet at a time.
 
I feel for you.
You could bale Thursday though? Was it only cloudy over my place? If this fog doesn't burn off real quick,I won't be baling today either.
Take it easy when you can. Get well.
 
Hay was nice and dry by 1:30 or so. Started getting tough by 5:00.
When I got up in the morning, with all that fog, I wasn't hopeful, but sun finally burned through. Hay was pretty dry evening before when I raked it.
 
For the cost of those doctor's visits, you should have just left the hay in the field. Time for a new plan?
 
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