On this day, 27 November 1868, a detachment of US troops under the command of General Custer ignored orders to kill only warriors and massacred 103 sleeping Cheyenne in the so-called “Battle of the Washita”. Just one of many atrocities carried out against Native Americans during the colonization of the Americas.
This is an excellent online book on the treatment of Native American by the colonists: https://libcom.org/library/bury-my-heart-wounded-knee-indian-history-american-west-dee-brown
Finished my first appointment with a nutritionist. We came up with a meal plan for an elimination diet which I’ll start in January. In the mean time I’m going to play with the suggestions so I can try out meals and hopefully not feel overwhelmed when I actually do it.
I’ll be meeting with her the first week of January to go over things when I start the diet, and then the last week of the month to start reintroducing foods.
Overall the appointment was informative. It was two hours long; we went over my history with eating, my medical in regards to digestion, and my goals for doing this. We went over foods, why certain foods may be setting me off versus others. I showed her my suspected eczema - which primarily covers my torso. Her eyes widened when she saw it. It will be interesting to see if it diminishes during the elimination diet or not.
My body is so annoying. We’ve had the foster for only a week and I’m already crashing so hard. I know it’s from the stress of having two dogs and it makes me so sad.
I’m also frustrated with PG because of her barking. Its always been an issue but since getting the foster it’s gotten worse. She does it when she’s excited, when jealous, when he does something wrong/gets scolded (it looks like she’s tattling on him or defending him), she’ll bark because he barked but unlike him she continues and eventually he starts again (which prolongs her barking).
The rough housing I can deal with, but her high pitched barking grinds on my nerves. And she gets herself so worked up, forget about giving her a command. She makes it hard to give the foster commands because she distracts him to play or distracts me because of barking.
I have no clue how to tell her to stay, tell him to come and not have her follow. When I correct her she gets annoyed and barks at me - like always.
My body is crashing. Thankfully my sinuses held together for the night, because the previous two I had to sleep part of the night without my vent.
There’s things I want to do today but I’m not sure if I’m leaving the house. Not this morning at least …
Wanted to give an update about my application to foster dogs.
I was approved and we picked up our first dog on Tuesday. He’s a sweetheart who immediately took well to our dog; I’ll call her PG for “pretty girl.”
PG was a little confused when she realized he was staying overnight, but because of changes we made to our routine we haven’t had an issue since the second day. They’ve really taken to each other which makes my heart melt. Tonight they were practically cuddling! She let the foster lay so close he could lick her face.
She’s going to miss him when he leaves. She enjoys having a play buddy immensely, and this is the first time I haven’t worried about her not getting walked enough because playing with him tires her out so much. Today I was gone for most of the day so he was in his crate, and when I got home she was waiting for me to let him out.
