June 4, 2009

I love a Sun burnt Country

About two and half years ago, I had a health scare.

Prior to the onset of my symptoms, I noticed that one of my chickens became ill. It refused to eat or drink and this was a worry because it was the middle of summer. Each day the chicken became more listless, until it became totally motionless. With its beak gaping, trying to draw in air, the chicken eventually died.

Then I noticed other chickens had the same symptoms. Instead of watching them slowly and painfully die, I asked my husband to do what was necessary to take the bird out of its pain and misery. Out of 12 birds, I lost 3. They were the oldest chickens. One of my polish chickens also became ill but made a recovery.

Now my free-range chickens live in what can be described as a holiday resort. I buy the best grain, they eat our left-overs, and my green grocer gives me cantaloupes, watermelons (that are too bruised to sell) and superfluous lettuce to also feed my chickens. So they did not get ill from lack of nutrition.

Well at the same time I also became ill. I did not have a cold or the flu. I did not have a temperature but I became listless. With each passing day I was feeling worse. I could not stand and wash the dishes. I would stop half way and go sit down, regain my energy and then go back to the sink.

Now I am not one to make a fuss or a scene, I just very slowly continued. It all came to a head on a Saturday. That night we were invited to a wedding, I had absolutely no energy to attend but thought it would be rude to cancel on the day of the wedding, as organizers pay excessive amounts of money for each guest to attend.

I sat at the wedding, not eating, not drinking wishing the time to pass so I could go home but at the same time putting on a brave face and conversing with the other guests at our table. When the wedding was finally over and I made it to the car I told my husband to take me straight to the hospital.

I thought that there would not be many people in the waiting room and I would be attended to immediately. How wrong I was. The hospital waiting area, 2am in the morning was full of sick people. Most of them wearing pajamas, dressing gowns, slippers, wrapped in blankets and children screaming. The receptionist took our details and told us to take a seat. So there we sat with formal evening attire amongst people who looked as though they had come in from a war zone.

Now I have dealt with pain before. I have given birth twice and I suffer from excruciating migraines but I have never cried from pain. Well sitting in the waiting room I began to cry. I cried because to breathe caused so much pain, I cried because I could not walk any further distance, I cried because I did not look sick compared to the other people in the waiting room. I cried because I thought I would die before my number could be called. It suddenly dawned on my husband the severity of my pain and he began to cry with me.

Every one in the waiting room stared at us. My husband approached the desk and fortunately they understood and kindly took me in straight away. Now I won’t go into detail about all the tests they did, but suffice to say I did not have pneumonia, I was not having a heart attack and the doctors could not work out the cause of my symptoms.

Personally I put my illness down to the constant spraying that is emitted from unmarked planes flying overhead – chemtrails. I see them so often. Now I cannot prove anything but it is what I have observed. Ten years ago I could only work in my garden very early in the morning on hot days because we had so many bees buzzing around once the sun came up. Now days spotting a bee is a rare and exciting find.

All over the world we have reports of birds falling from the sky without explanation. Not just in Australia but other countries as well.

Above is a photo that I took on Christmas day last year from the porch in my back yard. I could not believe that they would have the audacity to spray us on Christmas day!!!

I have no idea what governments or military have in mind but this is my response to you!!

Having said that … Yes … I do love my country.

13 comments:

Nevin said...

Ardent, I hope you feel better. We have the flu at home and we have been house bound for a few days now... even a simple little thing like flu can make anyone feel depressed and helpless. My son and husband are fine, which I am grateful about but my daughter and I are quite sick in bed. Coughing, sneezing, chest pain, head aches are just some of the symptoms which we have to endure all day long.

I am grateful, it's just a simple flu, but even something simple like this can change ones attitude towards life. All of a sudden, small things become important....

Again, get well soon and I hope you will enjoy life like your old self as soon as possible. You are a lovely person and wouldn't want to see tears in your eyes.... :)

Ardent said...

Thanks you your comment Nevin. This incident happened some time ago. It took months for me to feel better but I am fine now.

I thought I would write about it because I am still seeing chemtrails in the sky.

Nevin I hope that you and your family make a speedy recovery from the flu.:)

Janice Thomson said...

Pesticides are used extensively here too especially by the forestry. With people being terrified of the West Nile Virus more will be used, yet it is a rare few that have died from it. Our eagle is believed to have suffered greatly as a result of spraying as have other wildlife too.
I fail to see why pesticides are needed when common sense about the use of repellents is much wiser...and safer to all life.

Anonymous said...

Ardent this will give bust.....enjoy it while it last

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RT said...

Wow, I dont know what to say about your contrailphobia ....... but your back yard is beautiful..... and I'm glad you recovered from whatever it was that was giving you pain.

We tried to raise some Chickens here...... but once the Coyotes found out, they would snatch one every few days until they were all gone.

yuvakuran said...

ALL MY LIFE I LOVED MY FATHER BEST OF ALL
by CAN YÜCEL

All my life I loved my father best of all.
The way a child sprouting like gorse from a cliff,
With legs bowed - about to tumble any minute -
Would run in the trail of a giant,
That's how I loved that philandering father of mine.

What neighbourhood we lived in, he could never say:
Always busy, in a rush; if he dropped by, he'd dash away,
I'd look up in my atlas the places for which he'd depart:
That way I learned exile and longing by heart.

How I'd fly with joy: sickness was the best ...
If my fever zoomed past 40, they'd call him to Istanbul,
After all, wouldn't he want to bid farewell to his son?
Ours was a love game: when typhoid fever struck, I won:
I said Ohh, and buried my nose in his chest.

Until he went on the inspection tour that was his last,
I ran after that giant flying to heaven,
For other kinds of passion, for loves so vast
My breath opened up, my mind, my inmost soul.
All my life I loved my father best of all.

Translated by Talat HALMAN

Anonymous said...

Ardent would you like to go wedding.....

http://haber.gazetevatan.com/haberdetay.asp?detay=Kibris_bu_aski_konusuyor&tarih=07.06.2009&Newsid=242281&Categoryid=1

Anonymous said...

Wedding link has problem,,,,
HERE IS THE NEWS......

Kıbrıs bu aşkı konuşuyor!

Dipkarpaz, Türk genci ile Rum kızın aşkını konuşuyor

KKTC’nin Dipkarpaz köyünde yaşayan 17 yaşındaki Rum kızı Elli Yorgalli, Türk komşularının oğlu Emrah Büyükdoğan’a (22) áşık oldu. Ailesinin şiddetle karşı çıkmasına rağmen aşkından vazgeçmedi ve Türk-Rum düşmanlığına meydan okuyarak Emrah’a kaçtı.

ELLİ-Emrah aşkı Rumlarla Türklerin karışık yaşadığı KKTC’nin Dipkarpaz köyünde üç yıl önce başladı. Elli 14 yaşındayken Türk komşuların en büyük oğlu Emrah Büyükdoğan’a áşık oldu ve iki genç görüşmeye başladı. Filizlenen aşkı fark eden Yorgalli ailesi, kızları Elli’ye Emrah ile görüşmesini yasakladı ve aylarca eve kapattı. Tüm yasaklara rağmen Elli-Emrah aşkı devam etti.

17 yaşına giren ve ailesinin baskılarından bunalan Elli, bir buçuk ay önce Emrah’a kaçtı. Emrah da gelin adayını babası Mustafa Büyükdoğan’ın evine götürdü. Baba Mustafa ve anne Döne, ’kızım’ dediği Elli’yi bağırlarına bastı. Dipkarpaz’da herkesin yıllardır bildiği Elli-Emrah aşkına komşuların desteği büyüktü. Ancak Elli’nin ailesi, kızlarının reşit olmadığını ve kaçırıldığını belirterek polise başvurdu. Yorgalli ailesi, Büyükdoğan ailesinin 1978 yılında Kayseri’den gelerek adaya yerleştiği için, ’Kızımı Türkiyeliler zorla kaçırdı’ diye şikáyetçi oldu. Tarafları dinleyen polis ise ortada kaçırılma olmadığını açıkladı.

Nikáh şahidi Talat

Emrah, başlarından geçenleri anlatırken, "Elli’nin ailesi, polisten de sonuç alamayınca adam tutarak bizi darp etti. Elli ile bir lokantada yemek yerken saldırıya da uğradık. Hatta Elli’nin annesi o saldırıda ayağımı da ısırdı. Aşkımız üç yıl önce 17 Eylül’de başlamıştı. Bu tarihte de evleneceğiz" dedi. Elli ise, "Emrah’ı çocukluğumdan bu yana tanıyorum. Çok zor günler geçirdik ama Emrah’ı çok seviyorum. Engel olamayacaklar" diye konuştu.

Evliliğe şiddetle karşı çıkan Yorgalli ailesi ise, genç áşıkları ayırmak için mücadelelerine devam ediyor. Rum aile, iki hafta önce Dipkarpaz’ı ziyaret eden Cumhurbaşkanı Mehmet Ali Talat’ın yolunu kesti ve ’Kızımızı kaçırdılar’ diyerek yardım istedi. Genç çift ile buluşan Talat ise, Emrah ile Elli’nin aşkını öğrenince, "Ben bu aşka sahip çıkacağım, nikáh şahitleri de ben olacağım" sözü verdi. Talat, Kıbrıs sorununu çözme görüşmeleri yaptığı Rum lider Dimitris Hristofyas’a da durumu anlatacağını ve Elli’nin nikáh şahidi olması teklif edeceğini de belirtti. Elli ve Emrah’ın en büyük destekçileri ise Dipkarpaz Belediye Başkanı Mehmet Demirci. Belediye Başkanı Demirci ekonomik durumları iyi olmayan Emrah ve ailesinin düğününü Lefkoşa’da yapacak.

Ardent said...

Janice, I totally agree. I did see a documentary showing the problems suffered by eagles. It claimed that the Egg shells of Eagle Eggs have become very thin due to the use of these pollutants. As a result the eggs break when the eagle sits on them. A very sad state of affairs.

RT, thanks for dropping by. Yes I do have a nice garden. The photo of the chemtrail was taken from my back yard. However the photo of the clouds sending a statement is not. I found that photo on the internet.

Sorry to hear that coyotes ate your chickens. My neighbour has had trouble with foxes. I am amazed how these wild dogs can break into chicken sheds. They must have engineering degrees.:)

Anonymous thank you for the Michael Jackson link. It was funny.

Yuvakuran, thank you for the lovely poem.

Anonymous, thank you for the wedding invitation. But I must say that comments are suppose to be about the post. :)
I truly appreciate that you send me items of interest however it would be lovely if you could in future email me. My email is on my blog site. Thanks :)

jams o donnell said...

We don't get spraying here mercifully.

Welshcakes Limoncello said...

What a terrible time you had. You must have been very frightened. I am sure you're right - it's the chemtrails. And so sad to read of the chickens' suffering, too.

Ardent said...

Jams, I am glad to hear that. :)

Thanks, Welshcakes.:)

renai said...

Gosh Ardent. I'm glad to hear you are feeling better. I love the picture, and also the pic from your yard.
Look after yourself. :)