A married couple describes the sudden onset of severe physical pain after butchering chickens and how it has upended their homestead life. The spouse weeps over the changes and worries they can't continue as before, though their partner is resolved to find a way through it.
It all started at a chicken butchering. A few days go by, but then I started having this pain in my back. And then it was like it went on tour. It went from my right arm to my fingers to my left arm.
We've been married for 20 years, and I've never seen him, like, weep in pain like I have with this.
She was there with me, walked me to the bathroom. Held me there and told me with the fullest resolve that she could muster, "We're gonna beat this. We're gonna beat this.
We're gonna beat this." It's not even about, like, losing our homestead. It's about, like, you can't live like this. It's just sometimes you can't keep living the life that you thought you were gonna live because things change.
If I had to start my Homestead all over again, it could only pick one animal… 
