Re: feeling overwhelmed

Posted by rrlund on December 29, 2017 at 05:06:26 from (69.36.53.86):

In Reply to: feeling overwhelmed posted by olgentdc on December 28, 2017 at 23:58:57:

Geez Jim,I don't know what I can say that you don't already know. You're getting a little bit better every day aren't you? Seems like baby steps I'm sure,but look at the big picture,not just a few little things through a keyhole.
You hit a couple of nerves with me. I lost a cow a week ago Tuesday. No idea why she got down. I saw her laying in the barn and had the gnawing feeling that she was the same one I'd seen laying in the same spot the day before. It had warmed up and she was in a soft spot,stuck right there with water around here. I got her in the other barn in dry straw,but she was dead four hours later. The wife wasn't home when I was fooling with here trying to get her out of that mess and in the other barn,and that ticked me off royally.

Then Wednesday morning when it was 18 below zero,I was having a rough morning. Had to jump two tractors,open up a waterer and adjust the float,just everything going backwards and I didn't get in the house til almost 10:30. The wife said something that just rubbed me the wrong way almost as soon as I walked in the door. I didn't really jump all over her,but the way I said what I did hurt her,and I absolutely hate myself when I do that to her.

You're stressed to the breaking point and I understand that too. Forget about that 7 acres of beans until the weather breaks and you're having a good day. They'll still be there. Don't push yourself until you snap. I've done that. I had 12 heifers freshen all within about a week one time when I was milking cows. Things were already stressful in my life already at the time,but that pushed me over the edge. I would have laid a hundred dollar bill in somebody's hand to milk for me just once and give me one milking off,but it didn't happen. Something finally just snapped in me and I didn't feel anything. In fact,I didn't feel anything again for ten years or more. I'm still not the same and probably never will be. I don't have the same passion for a lot of things that I used to have,and any little stress,well,let me just say I have to avoid it at all cost whenever I can.

Just do what has to be done to keep the livestock fed for now,get some rest and let everything else slide until the weather's better and you have the energy to do it,then take one thing at a time.

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