EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[mlm Mike]

Quote: I had faith when you weren't going to originally hatch until spring.
I had faith you wouldn't get ducks until you had the proper shelter and pond built.
I have faith that you won't get any goat kids until you have a place to shelter them.

Hey, mister, you wanna buy a $500 watch for $50
Wow, what a deal! Must be my lucky day!

You accept Monopoly money?

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm helping you get the goats you want.

Not the kind of help I need right now...

Yes whites, I left the barn door open there.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: good to know. not sure where one would get a calf hutch used though

 

[lovechicks1293]

Howdy Soph

Hi Banty, and good night

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Momma hen has five baby's and two eggs still too hatch

hi sally!!!

hi sweetie how are you? hows the family?

Quote: I'm helping you get the goats you want.

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: good to know. not sure where one would get a calf hutch used though
A neighbor gave it to me, and some fencing he had laying around, delivered it too.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I have to share this,

 

[Jessimom]

I have to share this,

This is so cute!!!!!!!

 

[kajira]

@Sally Sunshine

So, my kid spiked a 103 degree fever, and had a cough. No big deal, that's usually her first sign of strep. 1/4 times, it will actually be positive, but her fever won't break until she gets antibiotics. She sometimes will get false negatives because we test, too early.

We go to the stat clinic, they swab her. it turns positive. Okay, great, that makes it easy I don't ahve to beg them to give her antibiotics.

They want to get tylonal into her, they refuse to give her a pill form of tylonal. I offer to give her one from my bag, and break it in half, because she can only take pills. They say no, it has to be a perfectly measured dose.. she speaks up and advocates for herself, tells them that she can't swallow liquid meds, that they make her vomit.

They say "no worries, we'll mix it in juice." she tells them again, it will make her vomit and she can't do it. They look at me and I back her up and say, she will puke, but if you insist this is the only way you'll give her tylonal, it's up to you.

They force it on her, and she gets about half of it into her stomach, before her eyes roll into the back of her head, she gags, and vomits everywhere in the room.

Poor kid is totally traumatized, and now very upset that they wouldn't listen to her, even though she clearly communicated. She insisted, that I tell them to put it in her file, that she has that reaction to liquid meds, and liquid meds are NOT an option.

So, after that, they want to give her a generic, penicillin based antibiotic. She has a history of strep being resistant, and us going back in 3 days for a different, not-pencillin based one. To save them time, I inform them of this, and ask for anything that's not in that family.

They go ahead and write her a prescription for it, the adult pill is 250mg, split in half, it's 125, and the pharmacy has done this before for strep, she gets it 3-4x a year (we do need to see an ENT at the end of the year if she gets it more than 1x this year.)

I get there, and the doctor wrote that it's only 240, for the first day, and 120 the rest of the days after. (1 pill a day.) anyways, I tell the pharmacy to call and talk to the doctor to fix it, so she can get the pill form. It's only 10mg off, and 5mg per day more than the doctor wrote, and while I know the doctor is doing it "based on her weight" the pharmacy says 240 and 125 is perfectly acceptable for both her age, and her weight, and when I got home I looked it up, and she could actually have up to 400mg per day with out it causing a problem......

Doctor, refused to budge. So the only way they could give it to her, was in a liquid suspension form... and with her medical history of vomiting that wasn't an option, especially since they can't give it in yogurt, or icecream as that deactivates the liquid antibiotic............

The pharmecist, did everything she could to get the doctor to fix it, so she could give her the pill form, but the doctor wouldn't listen, and instead, offered us a shot of antibiotics.

she listed some random, weird name, and I didn't think twice because i assumed, she wouldn't dare give her penicillin, after everything we'd gone through so far.

She gets the shot, which hurts like a *****, and handles it really well. We go home, she eats ice cream and goes to bed. In all other times with strep, her fever usually breaks after the first dose of meds... so when lunch rolls around and she's still spiking a 103 degree temp and complaining that she feels like she's going to die, my husband asked to see the paperwork and looks up the shot she was given.

It was in the penicillin family. So after running around, we finally got a fking prescription for keflex and were able to get her first dose into her, and a few hours later, she's finally starting to feel better. She'll take 4 more doses, 1x per day.

Then........ the baby broke a fever, cough same symptoms. We take the paperwork BACK to the walk in clinic, and get told since she's 2 weeks away from 1, they won't see her, so we have to take her to the local ER. (grumbles, sigh, fine.) we take her there, only to have this on call ER doc, who was a "roaming doctor" swab her, and refuse to give her antibotics, but tell us that if she's not better by friday, to take her back to her pediatrician, to get antibiotics from her GP. *Faceplants*

As I'm leaving, the nurse pulls me aside, and said he talked to a few of his peers, who said their hospital protocol, is to treat every sick family member, as if they have strep, if they present symptoms, once someone's swabbed positive for it. He said it was probably just too early to test positive yet, since she just started showing symptoms today. He apologized, and said if he could have gotten the doctor to listen, we'd have left with a prescription to help her.

Oddly enough, my baby had a 102.4 degree fever, and when they tried to give her oral motrin, she spit the medicine back into the face of the nurse. I've never given her oral meds before.. she's never been sick enough to need them yet. Plus - I normally do rectal meds for toddlers/babies, to make my life easier. LOL

He even pinched her nose, and she refused to swallow, insteda, she somehow, managed to collect all the medicine on her tongue and spray it like 3 feet straight up into the hair, into his face.

After all of this, I get home, and my husbands like "seriously? so you're going to have to take her back to the doctor in a couple days to get antibiotics if her fever's not gone, why did you waste your afternoon?"

Well.... yeah. Thanks honey, I had no idea it was going to go like that. ^.^

 

[BantyChooks]

Sorry kaj, that stinks...