Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Awake, the chickies are ok…

Love my cameras so much fun watching chickens sleep hahaha! Wish I had cameras with my horses .

Helps pass the time, distracts me from my leg and arm spasms, haven’t had such a miserable night in a few weeks. I am trying to start back with my ballet/Pilates but even 5 min is enough to exasperate my RLS - sheesh! I was gonna start Belly Dancing hahah! Guess that’s out!

Wishing Tax

These two are a hoot!
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So sorry the RLS is acting up.

They are such a lovely couple.

 

[rural mouse]

Mugs day

Nellie

Cuckoo, still tatty But new feathers are coming

Primula, with a tailbomber....maybe Nellie's?

Indigo, working on an egg. Surprised she stayed put. She and Lark are still really skittish.

And a surprising duo: Thing and Belladonna....just before Thing made her back off...

@TX Chick Noob may your doctor get you in with the orthopedist today. Meanwhile, may your pain levels be manageable and your meds tolerable. Stay hydrated.

 

[Ponypoor]

What's up girls??
Seems that Rose has tossed Henny Penny off her perch on the ledge.

Or maybe she just flung herself down there like Marty does! I can hear her squawking likely laying an egg. I can't see her... But it seems that Whiskers has hopped up with Queen Penelope.

 

[BY Bob]

Warming, graphic injury post.

So, it seems 2023 is off to a pretty bad start for me. This morning we were outside getting all the critters taken care of, and then were going to go out for breakfast and to run a few errands. When I left my office building after taking in the eggs laid today, I was walking on the plastic pallets we have out to have an area to walk when it is muddy. It was a little slick from morming dew. As I tried to step from one pallet to the next, my back foot slipped and went between the pallets, and I fell backwards. Which snapped both bones in my right leg, just above the ankle. My foot was dangling and facing the wrong direction.

We managed to get me into the car and to the minor emergence clinic. They had me snort some Fentanyl as the fastest way to start getting some pain relief. (That was a new experience, I am a good girl who has never snorted drugs.) Then they put me under “mild” general anesthesia to be able to remove my clothes, take better X-rays, reduce/manipulate the fractures, and put on a temporary splint. Not sure if it was the Ketamine, or the combination of that with the Fentanyl and then Morphine they gave me to control the pain, but I had a hard time waking up and had horrible nausea and vomiting. When I first started to wake I felt like I was in a science fiction movie, everything looked digital/aliased, and I was having double/triple vision. I felt like Max Headroom (for those old enough to get the reference). And was still in pretty bad pain from them repositioning things.

Finally I stabilized enough to go home. I have been communicating with our family doctor who will get a referral placed first thing tomorrow to a good orthopedic surgeon, because it will definitely require surgery. I can feel things grinding and moving every time I move my leg even just a small amount, even with the splint on. So now I am in my recliner, where I will stay until I can get in to see the doctor. Can’t manage the three steps up to the bathroom/bedroom. Not even with crutches. I am not strong enough and too wobbly. And the Norco (Hydrocodone) I am taking doesn’t help steady me either.

Spoiler: Injury photos

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My foot should be pointed almost straight up in this next one:
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Picture of one of the X-rays (kind of hard to see)
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Oh no! That's terrible.

 

[BY Bob]

That about sums it up!

Thank you for playing along.

 

[Ponypoor]

So sorry the RLS is acting up.

They are such a lovely couple.

Meds worked great

Then I got a huge surprise with TX Chick Noob ! Rotten luck - feel so sad for her.

KLC

 

[Ponypoor]

Thank you for playing along.

Alex is already planning on getting chicks, and hoping Xzit goes broody

So envious - if I head out on another project, no babies for me

But I can say that I will press to get my barn cams for my horses - or I will try to get someone to come to the house to do chores. Hard to find someone to work these days...

Baby Talk Tax
Guess who these babies were

 

[BY Bob]

I am definitely using the pain meds in this situation. The “real hospital” that is close someone we don’t trust, Especially with all the issues I am having after they treated my broken wrist last year. But we have gotten close enough to our family doctor that I have her personal cell phone. We have been texting and Bobby spoke to her shortly yesterday. She has messaged an orthopedic surgeon and they are supposed to be coordinating getting me in to see him, hopefully today.

I sure hope they see you today. What will you do if the surgeon uses BS&W as the place they perform surgery?

 

[BY Bob]

Mugs day

View attachment 3383550Nellie

View attachment 3383551Cuckoo, still tatty But new feathers are coming

View attachment 3383554Primula, with a tailbomber....maybe Nellie's? View attachment 3383553Indigo, working on an egg. Surprised she stayed put. She and Lark are still really skittish.

View attachment 3383552And a surprising duo: Thing and Belladonna....just before Thing made her back off...

@TX Chick Noob may your doctor get you in with the orthopedist today. Meanwhile, may your pain levels be manageable and your meds tolerable. Stay hydrated.

Those are great mugs.

 

[BY Bob]

Meds worked great

Then I got a huge surprise with TX Chick Noob ! Rotten luck - feel so sad for her.

KLC

That's a terrible situation. It's a really bad break. She needs that fixed now.