Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RebeccaBoyd]

Finally all the momma's and babies are tucked in for the night. At just at 48 hours old Holly decided it was time hers were out exploring. She had them all over the back yard, horse stalls and sawdust pile. Momma hen is not ready to come off the nest yet so hers stayed in the crate today. I finally kicked Gryffyn and her 2 out of the coop. Gryffyn after initially being upset and mad at the world settled down and showed hers the ropes. She spent the majority of her time in the barn isle but did have them out on the creek bank digging towards the end. I swear she took them into Louis stall to show them off to him and he was such a good boy and stayed perfectly still while looking at them. Louis probably would have been happy if she had decided to sleep with them tonight in his stall but around 7 this evening she decided it was time to go back to the coop for the night. Tomorrow Goose and her 4 are coming out of the coop. She had them out briefly yesterday. They got 2 feet from the entrance and dad walked by leading Louis and she decided nope, not ready and back into the coop they all 5 went. Gryffyns black chick also is now for sure a silkie cross. It's wing feathers have lost the fuzz and are coming in as normal feathers dang it. I can say though that Goose does have a pure silkie chick thankfully.
Now for some pictures.
Holly and her 6 out back.

Gryffyn showing off her 2 in front of Louis stall.

Twig, Lilly and Raven meeting them, they got close but no pecking at all.

I will have to repost this one Friday, but angry Gryffyn pretending to be a tom turkey

 

[LhickenChicken]

I will have to repost this one Friday, but angry Gryffyn pretending to be a tom turkey

She looks like she is waggling her butt!

 

[ValarieF]

I think @BY Bob is talking about a third party - the Medical Advocate should be free for you (I think) and would be someone with that job within the medical group if it's large enough. It helps with complicated cases, and could help you immensely in explaining the choices and deciding on your care.

If you want my two cents, I'll bite.

I'd like to know if the doctors have been through their decision tree with you. Both on what the possible diagnoses are and what the tests will tell them, and how they are assessing the risk to you of the tests they have in mind. If it's been confusing, this is where a Medical Advocate might be good in helping you decide on care.

Given my own history I know doctors love data and love actual tissue sample data. I do not blame them. Me too, I tend toward the analytic type! But given my own experiences and friend's experiences: I'd want to know how helpful the results could be in deciding ACTUAL TREATMENT, and what the risks of the test are given YOUR state of health and what they suspect might be going on inside you.

I turned down one test in the middle of treatment because it was just going to be another signpost on the road for them, but wasn't going to be pleasant AT ALL for me, and it was not going to affect my course of treatment one whit. Things progressed nicely with my treatment, and I did consent to the test many months later to confirm recovery, but that was when I was feeling much better and able to withstand it. This was in the 80's, in the stone age of patient comfort.

Another example - my friend's father in his 90's was dying of widespread abdominal/colon cancer and had severe, really severe dementia. Docs wanted to do another colonoscopy. Just to see how far it had progressed. Family said no. They decided on just palliative care.

Bottom line, sorry I do tend to go on - Just because it will help confirm a diagnosis maybe it isn't always necessary to have every last bit of data before beginning treatment, especially between a treatment that poses little risk to try and a test that poses a greater risk.

In your case, given what you write about your symptoms, and how long this has been going on, I'd want to know how risky any given test could be, given the range of possible things they have in mind.

Then ask - How will the test(s) change treatment? If they're suspecting colitis (& Crohn's comes to mind) what is the treatment they would prescribe? Do they HAVE to confirm it through tissue samples before treating you?

If your intestine is in serious disrepair, or even perforated, and they go in there, how do they assess the risk of this test to you, when they're thinking about doing an invasive colonoscopy? Where will it be performed? Not in a clinic I hope. You're not the average patient. I'd want it done in a hospital, feet away from a ready operating room with a surgeon available. And if/when you go home, if home is far away, I wouldn't go home but try to stay at least overnight in the hospital, or in a nearby hotel.

OK that's my two, no- ninety-nine cents, what's been going through my mind when I've read your posts. I do not know why your care, even palliative care, has been so slow in coming, or why you have not been admitted for testing either. But it makes me mad that this is what you've been experiencing and I hope things go better for you soon.

Rant tax: pullets!

Bathing outside the box, they were sunbathing I suppose.
There are four there, see next picture!
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Just hangin' out
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I agree and was mad last week when I went in in pain. She finally mentioned colitis. There's no crohn's or celiac disease.. She finally gave me something for pain and it's been 2 months. The surgeon wants to wait because he is afraid of complications due to colitis so we decided to wait on gallbladder surgery until after the colonoscopy, that will let us no if it is colitis. The last time I was at the ER I got mad and went off on the nurse. The dr treated my symptoms and sent me home with nothing. I think I should have been admitted to the hospital for tests a long time ago. I am currently taking 3 meds for IBS-C and told the dr my colon wasn't working. My gallbladder empties faster than normal, it has 97% of something else wrong (I forget). Other than that and pain it looks ok (but its not). The surgeon looked at and got all my films so he can be sure it is sae to do surgery. He has been the only smart dr on this.
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[ValarieF]

So my camera in the chicken coop has infra red and a light but I cant seem to get the light to stay off

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I agree and was mad last week when I went in in pain. She finally mentioned colitis. There's no crohn's or celiac disease.. She finally gave me something for pain and it's been 2 months. The surgeon wants to wait because he is afraid of complications due to colitis so we decided to wait on gallbladder surgery until after the colonoscopy, that will let us no if it is colitis. The last time I was at the ER I got mad and went off on the nurse. The dr treated my symptoms and sent me home with nothing. I think I should have been admitted to the hospital for tests a long time ago. I am currently taking 3 meds for IBS-C and told the dr my colon wasn't working. My gallbladder empties faster than normal, it has 97% of something else wrong (I forget). Other than that and pain it looks ok (but its not). The surgeon looked at and got all my films so he can be sure it is sae to do surgery. He has been the only smart dr on this.
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I'm sorry you are going through this and hopefully soon they figure out something definite and can treat it. I do not understand how the medical field can drag out testing for potential issues. Of the upcoming tests Rosie needs she has only had the allergy testing done and it has been 2 months now. They still have not scheduled the sleep study with insurance and physicians approvals holding it up. Thankfully she does get her Thyroid ultrasound next week, that has only taken 7 weeks to schedule. Call the dr's and get the runaround with why things are taking so long. They either blame the insurance or blame the hospitals scheduling department and I'm left beating my head against the wall praying she does not get sick again before school lets out.

 

[notabitail]

Which is my preferred open source browser

I use Pale Moon. For me, I like it, and the fact that it is completely independent from Mozilla. I'll have to do more research, but Mozilla seems to have done some pretty disreputable things in the past

 

[ValarieF]

I'm sorry you are going through this and hopefully soon they figure out something definite and can treat it. I do not understand how the medical field can drag out testing for potential issues. Of the upcoming tests Rosie needs she has only had the allergy testing done and it has been 2 months now. They still have not scheduled the sleep study with insurance and physicians approvals holding it up. Thankfully she does get her Thyroid ultrasound next week, that has only taken 7 weeks to schedule. Call the dr's and get the runaround with why things are taking so long. They either blame the insurance or blame the hospitals scheduling department and I'm left beating my head against the wall praying she does not get sick again before school lets out.

Thats awful. I cant believe she hast got it all done yet and its taking so long. My colonoscopy wont be until may 30th almost 3 months of this!? Where would I locate a medical advocate.\?

 

[featherhead007]

Thats awful. I cant believe she hast got it all done yet and its taking so long. My colonoscopy wont be until may 30th almost 3 months of this!? Where would I locate a medical advocate.\?
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Advocate, ask your insurance company about it.

 

[BY Bob]

It being Tuesday and all, I have a question…..
besides twofer Tuesday, it’s usually taco Tuesday most places as well.
My question is: are fish tacos considered tacos as well as other types of tacos, tacos. Or is only beef or pork tacos considered tacos to taco Tuesday.?
Here’s a twofer from the past:
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I vote that fish tacos are tacos. They are my favorite tacos.

 

[featherhead007]

A proctologist became very angry with the assistant, because the assistant brought him a beer .
The proctologist said “no , I ordered a butt light!”
(I’ll see myself out)!