Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Could be fins!!

 

[Ponypoor]

I'm guessing you brought home something alive. Now the question is does it have 2 legs and feathers or 4 legs and fur.

Or scales!!!

 

[Ponypoor]

Pony Sunday
Snoozing in the sun

 

[Ponypoor]

Curious, but determined!

As long as not flying over!!

 

[featherhead007]

As long as not flying over!!

Not yet

 

[featherhead007]

I bought a crate of apples for Chaco. But no recent pictures. Sorry I was busy.

 

[LozzyR]

Ummm, yeah...I did in that thread...but didn't here...and someone reported me and I got a 'please go along' note, so I just shut up....some people were really in a tither about having to change their name!
Tax about April Fool's:View attachment 3047944I love her coloring! She has a sister who is slightly darker and the white on this one are a soft grey on her sister. And @RoyalChick, she is 'grey', not 'lavender' as she has visible barring - like her sister. Both are 1/2 BR and 1/2 EE that was a light colour.

I don’t think anyone would have reported you, I suspect the moderators periodically did a search for ‘April Fool’ and deleted the posts that came up.

 

[LozzyR]

Grandma update.
She is on hold for starting physical therapy because while she was at the hospital she picked up the rhinovirus. She is almost over it but still has a bad cough. At her family dr appointment several of her medications were stopped as they were not doing anything anymore and new ones added. They also cut the dose of one of her heart medications in half as they think it is causing her pulse to be too low. We have to do a blood pressure and pulse reading twice a day until her next appointment next Wednesday. It can take a week on the new dose to see changes but the numbers in the 40s are still very worrisome. As long as we can get her to use her walker it may take a bit of time but she is able to get around, she just hates using it and wants her cane back which she is just too unstable to use. The biggest change and the one that causes me to have to go outside and have a good 10 or 15 minute crying spell almost daily now is her mind. She has started hallucinating, and her memory is going fast. This is either from the stroke, or the stroke sped up the Alzheimer's. 1 of her brothers has visited 5 times, and after the 3rd visit he left in tears as he could see the changes in just a span of 2 days between visits. He called that night and told us he had called the rest of her brothers and sisters and told them that they needed to visit and sooner rather then later, so far, no one else has shown up. I have never personally dealt with a family member with Alzheimer's before, and the rapid progression is both heartbreaking and terrifying.

I am so sorry.

 

[bgmathteach]

Grandma update.
She is on hold for starting physical therapy because while she was at the hospital she picked up the rhinovirus. She is almost over it but still has a bad cough. At her family dr appointment several of her medications were stopped as they were not doing anything anymore and new ones added. They also cut the dose of one of her heart medications in half as they think it is causing her pulse to be too low. We have to do a blood pressure and pulse reading twice a day until her next appointment next Wednesday. It can take a week on the new dose to see changes but the numbers in the 40s are still very worrisome. As long as we can get her to use her walker it may take a bit of time but she is able to get around, she just hates using it and wants her cane back which she is just too unstable to use. The biggest change and the one that causes me to have to go outside and have a good 10 or 15 minute crying spell almost daily now is her mind. She has started hallucinating, and her memory is going fast. This is either from the stroke, or the stroke sped up the Alzheimer's. 1 of her brothers has visited 5 times, and after the 3rd visit he left in tears as he could see the changes in just a span of 2 days between visits. He called that night and told us he had called the rest of her brothers and sisters and told them that they needed to visit and sooner rather then later, so far, no one else has shown up. I have never personally dealt with a family member with Alzheimer's before, and the rapid progression is both heartbreaking and terrifying.

My understanding is this kind of rapid progression is VERY unusual except in cases of needing surgery (i.e. anesthesia), or new surroundings. I do realize she has relocated...but the confusion that creates is pretty immediate, not onset days/weeks later. I am wondering if her change in meds is affecting her mental state? Please let her Dr. know at appointment Weds!!!

Disclaimer: I am not a Dr. nor nurse, so there is lots I don't know. However, I worked for years as a CNA in a dementia unit, and my husband's uncle and my mother-in-law both have dementia (my MIL is actually alzheimers. Though it technically can't be accurately diagnosed until after death, her father and older brother died of it, and she & her other brother are suffering from it. ) One med she was on REALLY negatively affected her. Getting rid of that med and trying a different one brought her back to where she was a few years before!



My heart and thoughts are with you!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

And almost no comments on my new name. I thought it was clever. I did like FY Bob idea though.

OK I’ll take the bait again. Your name video explanation was too many steps advanced for my brain. Were you Huckleberry, and not Daisy (as in TGHE)? The characters in it I had very little idea about, except it likely had to do with the whole Wyatt Earp shootout at the OK Corral saga. Which was which, who was the guy shot dead, etc., no clue.