BYC Café

[LaFleche]

Good morning Cafe. Coffee is ready.

I got nothing done on my house projects yesterday other than thinking and planning. The hospital messed up the blood draw they did on DH Monday for the Thursday appointment. Apparently there was an order for a CBC in the system from last October from his PCP (who left the practice over 4 months ago). So the one the the Urologist submitted wasn't done. We had to go 2 hours early to the hospital to get another draw. The lab put a STAT order on processing the sample so it would be done by the time of his appointment. What they didn't count on was us sitting in the waiting room for over an hour before they spent 5 minutes collecting the sample.
We got the PSA but not the testosterone level.
The good news is the drug they gave him is working. His last PSA was 12.6 before getting the drug. It was 4.1 two weeks after the shot.
He's scheduled to get the drug that lasts 6 months one week from this coming Monday.
Dropping the testosterone down to essentially zero removes the fuel that feeds the prostate cancer and lengthens that runway. All we're trying to do is keep the cancer runway longer than the Alzheimer's runway.

All this confusion is just what you two needed on top of all going on.

Crossing my fingers that this time the treatment will stop the cancer progression for good.

With one of our neighbours it worked really well, and as one of the positive side effects he stated that with all these female hormones he had to take to bring his testosterone levels down, he finally learned to understand how women must feel during pregnancy or their monthlies.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Cafe Prayers to both of you Tonya
little damp here.. Beggining to think my hatch of 5 might all be cockerel

 

[Sally PB]

The top bird of my 3 littles "stood up" to Lark, the low hen who likes to peck them through the fence. Stormy stood tall and flapped her wings like a cockerel. Lark walked away from the fence.

Lark came over to where I was sitting, and eventually laid down in the dirt. I know it's anthropomorphizing, but I swear she looked a bit dejected.

I'm hoping I can take the fence down next week some time. I plan to do it while they're still in the coop. Maybe do some after lock up and the rest the next morning? I also plan to rearrange most everything in the run, as well as add 4-5 new "clutter" things.

DH just texted me that he's coming home with some pallets! Yay! I'll have wood to build some of the clutter things I want to add.

 

[DobieLover]

This bird is driving me CRAZY!!

I think seeing and hearing the peepers all day has made her extra nutty this time.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Have one close top that she may have faked me out today put her back in right into a nest if she is in there when I go to close she goes back in the buster maybe forever

 

[LaFleche]

This bird is driving me CRAZY!!

I think seeing and hearing the peepers all day has made her extra nutty this time.

This is what I am facing at the moment with 7!! wannabe mommas. I rotate them to visit the other flocks for a week or so, which usually helps to break the broodiness within a few days, but this year they just won't stop and even cling to the bare ground, fluffing up and screaming like nightmares from hell!

 

[LaFleche]

This afternoon, I will put three of them (from three different flocks) in the anteroom with lots of light, so they can annoy and screech at each other to their hearts content.

 

[aart]

This bird is driving me CRAZY!!

I'll bet!
I just broke another, 2nd time this year for that girl.

 

[sourland]

I think that all of those broody mamas deserve 3 eggs each.

Good morning, Cafe' - coffee is ready. Waiting on Henri to make up his mind on a path to take.

 

[DobieLover]

I'll bet!
I just broke another, 2nd time this year for that girl.

This is Tonk's fourth or fifth time around the block. I forget. And the little shit broke when I bought her hatching eggs. Idiot.