Brenda~At first glance I saw pitbull & pulled down & I freaked!! Then I reread your posting. Glad your ok!!!

Seed pods are still holding on to the plants you gave me. Keeping my fingers crossed!

later....April

Do you want me to wait to send your package til you feel better? I was feeling pretty good this morning and started getting some packages ready that I owe people and squirted myself in the eyes with brug juice. I can still see out of one but the other is so dilated I can't focus and its numb. Feels weird. Hope it doesn't last too long. I have your corkscrew vines in some water and can just leave them a little longer and begin rooting them if you like.

Sorry to worry you, April and yeah on the seedpods. You are a new kind of brug mommy now!

Kristy, how do you do it? Well, I wear glasses or I would be in the same boat as you! Thanks for remembering about the brugs and corkscrew vines- it can wait til you can see straight again!!! ;-)

~Brenda

Oh Im sorry to hear that Brenda, I hope you feel better
real soon.
Pit bulls are pretty strong animals.
Take good care.

Karen

I can see out of one eye for the most part. Its a little blurry but the right eye got the worst. I took in a huge leonberger dog to keep it from going to the shelter until I can find a home for it and I just saw on the news that the shelter burned down in the middle of the night and over a hundred dogs and cats were killed. I am soooo glad I had Shelby here. She is such a good dog and gentle for being huge. She was meant to live because I thought John would kill me for taking her, lol. Glad I listened to my heart.

Oh Brenda, you scared me when I read the first sentence. I am glad is nothing more serious. Get well and do not worry about anything else. Wash the area well and put some ointment with neosporin or bacitracin. I also use Tea Tree oil on my skin problem. I few days ago I had an open blister on my foot(I was walking not in the right shoes ) , I used tree tee oil on it and now is almost healed.
I hope you get better soon.

Pat

Kristy, Get someone to get you a pair of those wrap-around sunglasses that cataract surgery people wear. I got mine at Walmart. My intention was to wear them anytime I was cutting the Brugs but oh well... You could put a patch over your eye. Just be careful & don't get it again.

Brenda, The 1st thing they taught us in obedience class was never wrap the leash around your hand. I learned that lesson the hard way too. I got up one am to let out the new 100 lb undernourished 18 month old Newfoundland foster dog (I weighed about 99lbs dripping wet then). I was standing there half awake & yawning in my granny nightgown & the sun was just beginning to come up. The dog's prey instinct kicked in instantly. Suddenly I was yanked almost off my feet in the direction of the chicken coop where the hens were just waking up & hopping out their little door. The coop is at the other end of the yard & I was able to keep up with the dog for about the 1st 15'. He drug me the rest of the way (seemed like 60 mph at the time) through the mud & went under the rabbit cage, came back out & knocked the chickens gate off its hinges. I tried to duck under the 4 x 8' rabbit cage but every time he lunged at the insane hens & the rooster trying to protect them, my face was bashed into the 2 x 4s criss-crossed across the bottom of it (that thing was well-built & wasn't moving). I thought I was going to pass out. After what seemed like forever but was probably only a couple minutes in reality, my DH finally came to see what was taking me so long. He put the dog inside & cleaned me up. I was steward at our local kennel club's dog show that weekend & went with a fat lip, cuts & bruises & a black eye. I looked like I was in a car wreck. With a little training, Jack went to his new chicken-less home.

Linda

Brenda I hope that you will be ok soon. When you read pitbull and accident....well I really read very fast this time and I was so glad that it was just a dragging story. Even though you must be in pain for you to have to stay home.

All I know is that my kids know I would not go near a pitbull if they had one. ONE breed I am scared of like there is no tomorrow.

Linda great advice about the leash holding.

Lucy

Ouch, Linda, what a nightmare and of course, not good advertising for your stewardship, eh? Like mine, parts of yours sounded comical, unless you happen to be the one that it was happening to!
Yes, I figure it is better to lose the dog, than get dragged to the point of falling again. No more looped leases.
One more thing I learned is when Maggie got away this morning while it was still dark (over the fence, another issue) I could not get her to come to me. I repeatedly tried to sneak up on her for all of a minute, went back to the house and the yard light, and pretended to cry. That brought her right to me.
She came running yesterday while I lay face-down on the driveway yowling, and I thought she was going to love me to death with her concern and doggie kisses by stomping all over me- I could not get up! So, this morning I remember she came to me when I was hurt- wonder how long I'll get her to cooperate by fake-crying- she is really very smart!
Thanks for the concern and helpful advice from everyone.

~Brenda

Feel better with the skinned body parts.

I am now going to wear goggles to avoid getting splashed with brug juice. No thank you on that one!

Brenda,
Next time, try running away from the dog. They will usually turn around & chase you. When they "catch" you, you grab them. I can laugh about it now but at the time it wasn't one darn bit funny. LOL I only had him a couple days at that point & he was MUCH better behaved when he left.

Pitts are usually very nice dogs around their family but you have to remember what they were bred for & make sure they are properly socialized with other people & animals.

Linda

Glad to hear it wasn't worse and that you are ok. Must have been scary as it was hapening.It's good that you can laugh about it now. Some people get scared and stay away from dogs forever becouse of being hurt.

Gental and soft Hugs for you.
Kim

Brenda, hope you aren't feeling sore after that. Get someone to do all the house work for you because you know how it hurts when you get your skinned hands in water to clean!

Kristy, I must have missed a post. What happened to you? I know you, Karyn and a few others are missing from GW, and hopefully it isn't because people are sick or got injured in some way.