Dearest Shelia,

Thank you, and i am focusing on nutrition as you had suggested as I agree this is the most important...but makes me happy to think once my body gets healthier it will metabolize or whatever it does..and loose some of this extra.

I tried the acv as suggested and it was better! :O) I think I am feeling a difference..a good difference taking it. My muscles feel leaner and my skin is clear and has a glow of health.

Maybe not the smartest idea but I am feeling desperate so I cut the BP to 1/4 dose this morning. Yesterday I woke up feeling well and after taking the 1/2 tab things changed within 4 hours and the rest of the day and evening I was too restless and irritable to function. Today I will make sure I drink lots of fluids as I think it was Stan that mentioned that....and within the next couple of days get a monitor. It may be a w/d symptom from the fluctuating medication too is my guess??


I have appreciated all the good advice and support about the ticks from everyone! Thank you!!
Today there is someone coming to check out the problem from the Winnipeg branch of...I think it is like a Natural Resources or something. Apparently we are not the only ones experiencing ticks. It seems like this year is exceptionally rife like you mentioned. People have been loosing their new born calfs. The other person I heard of had a new foal posioned and unable to get up off the ground with 300 ticks on it. It might have lived, I'm not sure. Back when I was looking for a horse I had been on Kijiji and I spoke with another woman who had told me one of her foal went into shock and the vet had to be called last year because of ticks. I hadn't really understood the problem at the time and thought it was odd..but now I am getting it. The problem is twofold. One is to protect the animals..(and we have used several methods including the injection of farm grade preperation, even on the dogs. Flea and tick baths for the dogs, Deet spray on, a nautral oil preperation with garlic,acv,dishsoap, and as of last night we found another package in an old grain bin that has a dust to treat horses, cows, pigs with for ticks, lice etc. So they are getting that too. They are being bombarded with drugs.)
And the second, is for us to be able to be outside and enjoy nice weather. At present I can't even sit on a chair on an open porch.
Grass cutting we will keep up on!! It is new grass coming up and the horses love it!! We had them grazing at the front of the property.
We have an open..maybe 2 acre equivelant area that is mostly dirt in front of the house other than a small lawn. It is so there is access to the grain bins. The fields however, we can't cut.as there is hundreds of acres around the house that use to be cultivated and it has long dead weeds, and their is a wooded area behind the house. It is a wind block.
There is old straw bales that have been stacked and left as windbreaks (hundreds of them!) and the paddock area had overgrown weeds from the previous years which the horses have been tramping down trying to find new grass shoots. The natives burn the fields to keep problems down...but I wouldn't dare try.