Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[IamSamSam]

I had a look at those, but I'm bit of a ' chicken ' don't think I could kill them after I trapped them.

Lol bucket of water or tailpipe gas

 

[Anniebee]

My dr gave me an are you nuts look when I asked about a medi alert card for warfarin. My mum was never told to carry one either. To me it's just common sense so I made my own to put in my wallet.

Warfarin is fairly easy to reverse. I once took the wrong colour tablet for a week giving myself 5's instead of 2's and despite my bloods being as high as their test went (thank goodness I finally realised!) a single vitamin k injection fixed it within a few hours.

appps ... this might be of interest ( and perhaps surprise ) to you. It is a pdf but is easy to read on line. : http://www.aspenpharma.com.au/patRes/WarfarinInformationBooklet.pdf

Your last words here are the perfect example. "fixed it within a few hours". People bleeding very profusely from a bad accident, don't have a 'few hours'. You were only reversing the effects of the drug, not trying to save your life.

It was wise that you made your own card to put into your wallet. The number of other drugs that are common enough, which increase ( or reduce ) the activity of Warfarin are listed on this link . There are many others that are not common in use. This link also advises :

It is a good idea to wear an alert bracelet (such as a Medic Alert®) and/or to carry a warfarin identification card
to notify other people that you are taking warfarin. Registering for personally controlled eHealth Record (PCEHR) is also a good idea.
More information about eHealth Records is available at http://www.ehealth.gov.au/internet/ehealth/publishing.nsf/content/home​

As with many things, it comes down to cost. Warfarin is cheap - - but requires constant checking of levels of INR. Clexane is expensive, does not require a blood test more than about once every 6 months, and is a sub-cut injection, of particular strengths. It also has a range of contra-indications, but not as many of the commonly used drugs. Most drugs we take have some form of contra-indication to other drugs, and some even to food ( e.g. Warfarin can be inteferred with by drinking cranberry juice for gosh sakes

).

Reversal of Clexane with Vitamin K is checked 10 > 30 minutes after the initial dose to take an INR reading, and thereafter at varying intervals ( perhaps depending on the hospital rules ?? ).

Cheers .......

 

[Anniebee]

Oh you poor thing, I feel for you. For 3 years I had to have clexane injections and I'm such a sook when it comes to needles. My tummy was black and blue so they started giving them to me in my legs.

Thank goodness those days are behind me.

Fancy .... I tried it twice ( that's first and last time !! ) .... in the legs. I have very muscular legs, and it was difficult to pick up enough flesh to inject into, without the fluid impacting on the muscle.

I nearly went through the roof with pain.

I luckily don't bruise myself giving Clexane in the tummy.

The punctures close over quickly. Occasionally I will hit a small vein - and then there is bruising. I have had daily and now every second day injections for the past 12 years, and previous to that - after clots, it was injected heparin for 3 months, which also required twice weekly blood tests. I remain now, on Clexane for the rest of my life. Needles don't worry me - ( just as well, eh !! ).

Cheers ......

 

[Anniebee]

Have often spoken about Mindy Araucana, and a few people here said they'd like to see photos' of her.

Finally got around to taking them, so here are a couple : She's a feisty sweetheart.





Inspecting the garden - well away from the two big girls though..... I thought she had finished her moult at this point, but she seems to have begun again - or at least around her head and neck now. ???

 

[LuckysMum]

Anniebee Not much fun having needles everyday.

Have often spoken about Mindy Araucana, and a few people here said they'd like to see photos' of her.

Finally got around to taking them, so here are a couple : She's a feisty sweetheart.





Inspecting the garden - well away from the two big girls though..... I thought she had finished her moult at this point, but she seems to have begun again - or at least around her head and neck now. ???

I have been offered araucana, Sussex and leghorn eggs to hatch. Are these chooks easy enough to keep in a backyard? I heard araucana are a bit flighty. I am looking to forward to a variety of chooks.

 

[MyHaven]

MyHaven Sorry to hear you are still getting sick birds. I hope they all get better quickly. Sorry I can't offer anything more than hoping all goes well soon.

We thought Lucky had gone missing yesterday.  We have tried getting her in with the others now they are getting big enough to defend themselves.  So Sunday night we counted them all in the main pen,  we all got different number the chooks wouldn't sit still. Haha yesterday morning I went to see them before I went to work and couldn't find lucky. I thought oh no we didn't count properly and she got left out all night.  So  I frantically ran around the yard behind the shed everywhere and couldn't find her.  I woke one of my sons up to help me search. Our back fence is only 5ft high and she seems to be a flier. (She gets over a 4 ft fence) Anyway Scott goes into the coop and there she is. Paul a made bigger nesting boxes with sjturner's  measurement, because these are inside we didn't want them to roost on them so Paul put fence on top of it, it goes up to about a foot from the roof. Well there she is perched on the little fence. I don't know how she managed that. But I think today I will have to clip her wings.

Thank heavens she is ok.

I had a start last night too - I could not find Lacy my Barny. Racing everywhere with the torch worried I was looking for a body as she has been amongst the sick. I had missed her in the coop. Sigh of relief.

Tks for your kind thoughts. I will update in a separate post shortly. Just catching up on the posts I missed.

 

[MyHaven]

I had a look at those, but I'm bit of a ' chicken ' don't think I could kill them after I trapped them.

I was taught to hold them by the tail and throw down on concrete. It works well, but I've only been able to manage it with ones I've found after the cat has tortured and they need to be put out of misery.

 

[MyHaven]

Fancy .... I tried it twice ( that's first and last time !! ) .... in the legs.   I have very muscular legs, and it was difficult to pick up enough flesh to inject into, without the fluid impacting on the muscle.

I nearly went through the roof with pain.  

I luckily don't bruise myself giving Clexane in the tummy.      The punctures close over quickly.  Occasionally I will hit a small vein - and then there is bruising.   I have had daily and now every second day injections for the past 12 years, and previous to that - after clots, it was injected heparin for 3 months, which also required twice weekly blood tests.   I remain now,  on Clexane for the rest of my life.   Needles don't worry me - ( just as well, eh !! ). 

Cheers ......   

I feel for you. It sounds like you take it in your stride. You have taken me back to my cancer treatment days when I was subjected to heparin twice daily I think. I had to have it in the leg because of my abdominal surgery. Yuk.

 

[Fancychooklady]

I feel for you. It sounds like you take it in your stride. You have taken me back to my cancer treatment days when I was subjected to heparin twice daily I think. I had to have it in the leg because of my abdominal surgery. Yuk.

Mm, dark days , but sometimes it's good to remember , if only to count your lucky stars. My hubby would give mine morning and night, but he was also in charge of my TPN . At the time I had a feeding tube in my tummy and a gastric tube so it didn't take long to run out of places to jab. Thank god those days are behind me.

 

[User395221]

I have been offered araucana, Sussex and leghorn eggs to hatch. Are these chooks easy enough to keep in a backyard? I heard araucana are a bit flighty. I am looking to forward to a variety of chooks.

Are they straight araucana, or crosses? My girls Grace and Marcy are araucana crosses (so-called "easter eggers"). They are lovely. My Marcy is Light Sussex cross. She's lovely. It's hard to say what qualities you have in a purebred as opposed to my little "mongrels", but as far as I know, they are easy to keep. Leghorns I don't have.

Finally got around to taking them, so here are a couple : She's a feisty sweetheart.

She's so pretty, no wonder she's a "diva" What colour is she? She looks pink....