Breaking news and post-Lyme

We've had a hectic couple of weeks. First: I now no longer have Lyme disease. Four weeks of antibiotics have killed the little Borrelia bacteria buggers that cause Lyme. Or, as the doctor said, the chance the bacteria is still in my blood is nil. I now suffer from post-Lyme symptoms. Which means I'm still very tired, my fingers show sort of reumatic signs in that they don't bend sometimes, and some other minor pains and aches. It may take some time for these symptoms to disappear completely. So...that was that. And, two weeks ago, Willem (one of our horses, if you didn't know that) broke his upper jaw. Long story. He did something stupid and that resulted in three of his upper teeth pointing in a totally different direction than the rest of his teeth. And behind these three teeth his jaw had a nasty break. So the specialist horse vet came and operated on him and fitted him metal braces to keep everything in place. And after a week those braces had to be tightened, which horse vet did and the day after that Willem found a small branch that had fallen of a tree and nibbled on that and a piece of it got stuck in his braces and pulled half of it out of his mouth, so the vet had to operate on him again to fit him new braces. Fortunately he will recover totally and in about four weeks from now he will be operated on again and the braces will be removed. This is the incredibly short version of everything that happened. The full story includes among other things a broken fence and a damaged car. And that was just the horse vet trying to leave our grounds again, hehe. And during a hefty storm a very large tree fell and júst missed our stables. Exciting times.