Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RebeccaBoyd]

I am hopeful that your Gran is placed in a Long Term Care facility and you all can move on with your life, and hopefully she will settle in fine.

Maybe you can bring a couple chicks to the home so all the residents can see them if she gets placed.

You know, I have always called Branch a therapy chicken. I am serious when I say that boy is in tune to emotions and is so gentle. If she is able to be placed and settles down that is a thought. I would have to check with the administration though on their policies. I know my boy, he is not afraid of wheel chairs or walkers and loves to be held when he is not molting. He and Owly are grandma's 2 favorites. I can see Branch going to visit and making a lot of people happy. I can also see Grandma showing off demonstrating that he knows to crow on command.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

You know, I have always called Branch a therapy chicken. I am serious when I say that boy is in tune to emotions and is so gentle. If she is able to be placed and settles down that is a thought. I would have to check with the administration though on their policies. I know my boy, he is not afraid of wheel chairs or walkers and loves to be held when he is not molting. He and Owly are grandma's 2 favorites. I can see Branch going to visit and making a lot of people happy. I can also see Grandma showing off demonstrating that he knows to crow on command.

In New York State we've done tons of music shows in rehab/nursing homes. Some places allow one or two animals that roam around, like a dog or a cat that belonged to the entire place. One place has finches ("African Finches" maybe?) in the common area that bred, and at one point in the past at least the offspring were distributed and could live in a resident's room with them if they wanted them. If a pet can't be brought inside for health reasons (or a potential threat to the health of any resident animals/birds) it may still be possible to visit with them in an outside area.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

You and your family have boon through a lot: losses, Grandma - so much stress!

I hope that she does go to a nursing home so you can have a bit of peace at home. I suspect when you visit her in a nursing home she will still be belligerent and accuse you all of abandoning her - but at least there you can walk away when the 'temperature rises', and she will get the care she needs without her take on the emotional hostage taking.

How is Rosie and everyone else if the family doing RE: covid recovery. I know you said Rosie was back to school - but I know for me, even though I was 'better', I was still weaker and got short of breath for quite a while - it is just this past week that I feel 'normal. Hoping everyone in your house was quick to recover with no lingering effects! (Especially Rosie - given her susceptibility to lung issues/infections!)

Rosie, mom and dad are recovering well. All 3 get tired easily but that is to be expected. Rosie does have a cough hanging on. With her history that will linger for a few weeks before it finally goes away.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

In New York State we've done tons of music shows in rehab/nursing homes. Some places allow one or two animals that roam around, like a dog or a cat that belonged to the entire place. One place has finches ("African Finches" maybe?) in the common area that bred, and at one point in the past at least the offspring were distributed and could live in a resident's room with them if they wanted them. If a pet can't be brought inside for health reasons (or a potential threat to the health of any resident animals/birds) it may still be possible to visit with them in an outside area.

I am sure Branch would at least need a bath, chicken spa day anyone. He probably also would need a diaper. I have been looking for a legitimate excuse to buy one for him for a long time now. If all else fails, I will print off pictures of him, owly and her blue girls *the cochins* for her to keep with her.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I am sure Branch would at least need a bath, chicken spa day anyone. He probably also would need a diaper. I have been looking for a legitimate excuse to buy one for him for a long time now. If all else fails, I will print off pictures of him, owly and her blue girls *the cochins* for her to keep with her.

Not being able to bring their own pets is one of the heartbreaks of going to a rehab place to live. I'm hoping you can at least visit with one. Now's the time to get serious about where she might go, if you haven't researched it already, if there's a spot open. "A Place For Mom" which I think is national may have ready answers to some of your questions that apply state-wide.

 

[notabitail]

What did you end up getting?

I'll have to find some photos.

 

[Ponypoor]

No, he wants to murderify every last one of them. Being a border terrier he has a prey drive so strong that anything that doesn't live in the house is a meal waiting to be eaten. However my two truffle dogs Thor and Rocky love the chickens and they are very much friends with them. When those two nap in the sun the chickens sun bathe on them lol

I agree, Ozzy, Thor, and Rocky are the best with my younger siblings. My cat really only cuddles at night when I'm only half awake. She likes sleeping on Ozzy or my chest, it kinda suffocates me lol

Hmmm I meant the child…. Does the child like your chooks

 

[Ponypoor]

Not being able to bring their own pets is one of the heartbreaks of going to a rehab place to live. I'm hoping you can at least visit with one. Now's the time to get serious about where she might go, if you haven't researched it already, if there's a spot open. "A Place For Mom" which I think is national may have ready answers to some of your questions that apply state-wide.

Here, unless you can pay privately, they will place you in a home anywhere up to 200km away from family. If you refuse a home you’re put at the bottom of the list.

Most people just go to whatever place they are sent in the hopes they can be moved closer to family - that never happens.

It’s such a shortage of homes, and staffing, no one wants to work on a long term care facility, thus we end up bringing in foreign workers. There is such a shortage of family doctors, nurses, etc - no one wants to do those jobs, and they try throwing money at people to work but they don’t.

 

[Marie2020]

Maybe the flatscreen TV, could fit on one side wall !

What about a good cd and radio player

 

[Marie2020]

Grandma update.

After initial bloodwork and x-rays all we 100% know for sure is she has covid. They are thinking tail end of covid but covid none-the-less. She has been admitted. No broken bones thankfully. Her white blood cell count is elevated so they are doing iv antibiotics and fluids. They have to re-do her chest x-rays, potential pneumonia but they were not clear enough to determine it. She is in a isolation room and mom is coming home once all the orders are put in tonight. The er doctor told her nicely that she was staying until she regained her strength. Be that one day or 30. Mom told me she pulled him aside out of earshot. She asked him for at least 3 days and explained that her primary doctor told us she could not enter a nursing home or rehab facility until she had a mandatory 3 day hospital stay. He understands and is going to get in touch with her doctor first thing in the morning. I am here to tell you all, this was not a accidental fall. A accident would have been falling backwards. She literally let go of the railing and slung herself sideways. I do not know how I managed to grab her in time to break her fall. If I had not she would have hit her head and neck on the porch nest boxes. We tried to get her up, me, mom and dad. She is 300lbs and was not offering to help at all. Thought we could lift her right up. She was also very uncooperative with the emts. They had to call a 2nd ambulance to have them assist getting her up and onto a stretcher. God forgive me for thinking and feeling this, but I am praying this is it and she is finally admitted to a nursing home. I cannot even begin to express the feeling of relief just knowing that for tonight she is not coming home.

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