Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ChicoryBlue]

She had no intention of drawing blood. More like a friendly poke to get my attention.

I love that!

 

[ILoveDaffy]

Hey everyone.

I think it is time for another update on my grandmother. As you all know she entered hospice care the first week of January. The nurses, nurse aids and the doctor overseeing it are wonderful people and are angels. The nurse aids are out 3 times a week to help with bathing and the RN is out every Thursday to take a assessment, document changes and touch base with the doctor. This coming Thursday will make 3 weeks since the latest diagnosis which has been difficult to come to terms with. She is in Cardiogenic Shock. Nothing can be done to cure this, it is part of the end stage congestive heart failure she has. I had never heard of this so I googled and fell into the rabbit hole of too much information out on the internet and had a breakdown. Our dear friend @Ponypoor has been a great listener and someone I can talk to. There is not much we can do for grandma except try to pull as much fluid off of her as possible and keep her pain levels under control. No matter how much we up her lasix, added 2 different fluid pills on top of it it has not gotten any better. There is mottling on her lower legs that is spreading indicating her organs are starting to fail and she has been having extreme difficulty breathing. Her pain has also gotten way out of hand. This morning we called the hospice nurse out. It was decided and the doctor agreed it was time to start her on morphine. It can also help calm her breathing and hopefully alleviate the smothering. She was started on it this afternoon and for the first time in a while she is truly resting. Me and mom, we feel helpless watching her go through this.

Praying!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I'm going to be in there this week. Will try to get pics of the system

Tractor Supplies don't have a uniform country-wide system of display, equipment and practices, at least that's what I thought, from what I've heard on BYC (old posts).

 

[ChicoryBlue]

To celebrate my 1,000th post, here's the Četiri Pernata Prijatelja.
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This is a great picture, wall-worthy and POW -worthy!

 

[rural mouse]

Tractor Supplies don't have a uniform country-wide system of display, equipment and practices, at least that's what I thought, from what I've heard on BYC (old posts).

my feed store isnt tractor supply. its a local (montana regional) owned place.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Hmmmm yes very strange. None of my hens do that but I have had young Roos so those things, maybe she feels she needs to be the Roo of the group?

Have you ever thought of getting a Roo? Something small and quiet like a silkie or polish?

DH doesn’t want to hear crowing…he hears the hens though, which are positively a cacophony at times! It upsets him when I tell him the shenanigans with Diane. He was attacked by rogue hens a crazy housemate got for free (probably why they were given away) in the past and couldn’t handle it. Are silkies and polish quiet Roos? Mr. P might be an outlier?

 

[Ponypoor]

Yes, so twelve chicks. (I told RC that last night so you have to pay SHRA tax )

Chicks chicks chicks

 

[Ponypoor]

How about 25 dozen?

That’s a lot of scrambled eggs

You going to sell all of them?

 

[knoturavggrl]

Praying!

My thoughts are with you.

 

[Ponypoor]

DH doesn’t want to hear crowing…he hears the hens though, which are positively a cacophony at times! It upsets him when I tell him the shenanigans with Diane. He was attacked by rogue hens a crazy housemate got for free (probably why they were given away) in the past and couldn’t handle it. Are silkies and polish quiet Roos? Mr. P might be an outlier?

Well, Mr P crows in the morning, and is then generally quiet the rest of the day. Don’t know about silkies but I would say they likely are quiet, Rebecca would know best.

Also an older Roo likely doesn’t crow as much as a youngster. mr P is 3 now so he is an older boy.

That’s sad your hubby had such a bad experience, having dealt with many naughty animals over the years I know it can be distressing, esp if one isn’t used to dealing with animals.

Mr P says better not to get a Roo if all parties are not onboard