Hello Hive
It's a bright and beautiful day today, and I'm so happy that my health is getting much better now. For the last 48 hours, I have been on IV fluid, painkillers, and other medications. Sometimes it's difficult to predict when the sickle cell pain and crisis come to overtake one, but in all of it I try to stay active, focus on my dreams, and not let any health challenge weigh me down.
When I'm sick, I seek immediate treatment, and after the course of treatment, I resume my work with much enthusiasm. I have seen a lot of people who are living with one health condition or the other; they worked so hard against these limitations and came to be the best among their equals. In fact, some are at the peak of their careers. I do take up these people as role models and strive to do my best as well. Someday soon we all will share a success story of this journey of life, and I won't be left out. I will someday make a mark and a difference too.
Without further distractions, I would like to share with us our journey so far on this riverbank veggies. We cultivated some of these about 2-3 weeks ago, and I'm happy that these are thriving really well.
Monday morning got us working on the farm. I was up early to weed up the grasses, fast catching up with our veggies, before I got sick and left the farm earlier than usual.
Most of the veggies eaten around the communities during the dry seasons are those we often grow by the riverbanks.
During the rainy seasons, it is often easy to plant and grow veggies almost everywhere, but the dry seasons, with their lack of water, get us shifting towards the riverbank, where we can use the river water as a source of water supply to grow these veggies.
The veggies often grow and produce very well since the riverbank usually has fertile soil. As erosion constantly washes dirt and other deposits that get decayed here.
While we are happy for the fertility of the soil and the progress we make with our veggies, we are also not happy that it is getting really difficult and almost impossible to grow anything here.
Seems like our animals are often hungrier than we are. Although I do not have or keep a goat or sheep, the villagers who own these animals often let them loose to go in search of food. Grasses for feeding these animals are often limited; hence, they allow them to go grazing in distant places.
This gives us so much concern, as it is difficult to stay on the farm all day to monitor and keep them off our veggies. It is often quite a sad situation to visit the farm one morning only to see that all the growing vegetables have been eaten, and you have to start planting all over again. Most of our mothers who grow vegetables here often do so in order for them to sell at the market and make some money. Despite these challenges, they still go ahead to plant and replant the veggies each time some animals feed on them. Since keeping a garden at home during the dry season is difficult due to lack of water, this is the only way we grow veggies despite such challenges.
Sorry about your health, I have been recently sick too and the crisis comes when you least expect. Malaria and infections mostly triggers mine, and the last one took about two weeks before I recovered.
Is that shoko? Plus if you're the owner of those sheeps then you're a big woman.
Those are my triggers too...
Stress hardly gets me down infection is totally unavoidable and monthly checkup now is on the high side. Somehow somehow we must thrive in between.
I wish to own any of those sheep, I would have started an animal pen right away.
These ones are just destructive and won't let me small veggies rest.
My last checkup was last May. I spend about 60k naira. Excluding medication and transportation. I haven't gone since, the family has to eat and it's just tough.
God blessed me with doctors and sometimes nurses who administer treatment at home, I wouldn’t have been able to cope with the bills.
May we all find it easy.
@tipu curate
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