Fuzzy's Farm

[Mom 2em All]

Hi all-

I will first talk about chickens so that this is an on-topic post:

I moved the Uggos out of the brooder today and into a rabbit hutch with ramp, and an x-pen yard.

First thing that happened was this- one of those bossy d'uccles flew right in!!! And started attackin the babies.
SO,, I ran out there- was watching from my bathroom window- and then I chased that d'uccle around so much trying to catch her- I wore myself out.
I hung a heat lamp in the rabbit hutch- then when I got home from work, I plucked each goofy baby who was sleeping UNDER the hutch, and put them inside and locked them up.
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Now the real reason I am posting.
My daughter is epileptic and everyone knows it. She was put on new meds three weeks ago because her other meds werent working any longer- her seizures had progressed from stare-off kind to grand mal to grand mal that needed valium to stop. She also has been very mood swingy very similar to my son who is bipolar. Well, the new meds three weeks in, no more seizures but she is SO different. Super anger, then crying- changes in swings so much within MINUTES- however, mainly crying and sitting on her bed. Ask her whats wrong, and she doesnt know.
She had her EEG today,, and the tech doing her eeg at one point got up and ran out of the room. It was the longest eeg ever- way over an hour and it never lasts that long. The neuro talked to me afterward and his statement was the eeg was "bad abnormal". He said the meds are stopping her body from seizing but her brain is continually seizing. He quadrupled her medication dose and added another pill. I really am still absorbing all of it,but he also confirmed the bipolar diagnosis. I know God doesnt give us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think he overestimates me. My son is hard HARD to handle and just moved back home, and now this with her- well, its rough.
I am really worried about my girl. I feel pretty helpless, actually.

Okay- end on a chicken note. UMMMMMMMM, Im giving Robin my mean duccles. lol.

 

[Mom 2em All]

Fuzzy-
My husband is gone, too until Sunday. He is in Manistee, salmon fishing.

Robin-
I hope your roo is okay.

 

[NovaAman]

On Sunday past, the weld on the door broke. We decided that welding again was not really an option unless we were able to weld in another piece of metal behind the hinge as well as around and over. The owner of the bowling alley said he didn't think it was a good idea to weld anything with his welder... SO, we bolted the sucker. Yup. Got a 1/2 in thick backing plate, 2 inches wide and 5 inches long. Drilled a hole in the hinge, in the backing plate, and in the remaining peice of frame that the hinge was originally attached too. The backing plate is bigger than the hole that was created when the hinge rusted away, so it is sitting against good metal. The fun came when we had to figure out how to get it in the spot we needed... Oh hey, we'll use a strap.. we'll put it thru the hole we put in the new backing plate, put the backing plate thru this rust spot here and pull it up into place... BUT WAIT! It's stuck. Drop it back thru the bottom rust hole, tie it up a different way, and back thru the hole, and pull it back up. BUT WAIT AGAIN! Hey look! So, did we see those wires there? Oh, jeez, hope we didn't drill any of those... Oh well, down again, and the strap too, because we have to get the strap on this side of the wires... YEAH! Success... Oh... wait... How do we get the strap off and out of the hole we drilled on the backing plate now, and NOT drop the darn backing plate and not loose it in the jeep??

Oh, I got a serious picture I need to send to my email and then to here...

Anyway, after much rednecking around, using a jack and a paper bundle, the jeep door is bolted on. I was 45 minutes late getting the kid from school, because his dear ole' dad decided he needed to go to school early, left me in a real pantie twister... AND the brake problem is not completely solved, but I will get thru the weekend and to pay day. I just will not drive anymore than I really have to... Oh, so thats to work only.

OH! And I have chicks. I don't have pictures yet. BUT I knew there was a problem when I went to get the eggs from Skatter that she can't have and she was in full out "I am going to kill your face if your put your bleepity bleeping hand under my butt!" mode. Cutest chick ever! I gave her eggs from the chuckles chicks now hens... The first one out is pink skinned, so, Rod Stewart is a daddy! Go Rod, Go Rod, it's your birthday...

AND... I am tired. My foot hurts. My kids are nuts. AND to top it all off... My stupid aunt came for her visitation week. The witch.

 

[NovaAman]

Oh Kim, I am so sorry you got such bad news. Your poor girl! You are so in my prayers and her too! I know what you must be going through. My mom is epileptic. My dad, BP with the beginnings of skitz. My aunt was BP and serious Skitz. I look at my oldest son and everyday I am terrified that I've passed this on to him. Had I known his dads family is also full of BP and Skitz sufferers... Well, no, I wouldn't have done anything different. I would have still said, "just this once won't hurt". If I wished it different I wouldn't have him, and he's my boy. Its still so hard to see your kids suffering. Its doubley hard when its two things going on in there like that. BUT you are woman. You can take it. God created man, and he looked at his creation and thought, I can do better. He created woman, ah, perfection.

Amie, hope you get the job. I know you really want to buy your own place and go to school. Its a step in the right direction.

tee, just pretend your like Kurt and Goldie... and I don't mean the chickens. LOL

 

[NovaAman]

Ok... here is the picture... This is my buddy Joe. We were using the jack to get the door pushed up as high as we could get it before tightening the bolts all the way. LOL.



Funny thing... When he was getting the jack out of the back of his car... Guess what broke on his hatch...?

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

SGs have been sleeping with the littles in the coop last night and tonight. They pick on Nugget so bad that I worry for him. I think they would kill him if I gave them the chance. I got up and let the littles out early before letting the SGs out... that way I hope they don't make the nieghbors crazy with their crazy crow fest.

I had hope that the one white SG that I have left is a girl... but it does everything a boy does so off to Silver's house the pair go!!!
I wish I would get an egg... real soon I hope. (EE) Noodles face has been getting really red! I need to get her some oyster shell and get some flock raiser.
I don't think my silkie (Pate) was as old as the lady I got her from said she was... she seems to have had a growth spurt in the last couple of weeks.
My BR (Pattie) maybe a bantum... she is still really small... she should be about 17 weeks.

Mom2- the frizzles are getting big! and I have heard one squeek of a crow out of him and I said to him "Don't you start!" and haven't heard one since! LOL

Marriage- I have yet to be married... I hope to one day be married...maybe...
I had my middle school sweetheart ask me to marry him when we were 17/18 but he broke up with me after I miscarried our baby...So we were not meant to be. He is married and has a baby girl now.
I met this BF 2 weeks after the last one and I broke up... and now we have a son that I would not trade for the world!

Sorry nova, i'm in a

Mood!

I got a call back!!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!!!! But i wasn't home so i gotta call Mon to set up an interview. Let's just say i plan on being interview ready at 9 am when i make that call!

Good job Fuzz!!!

Craziest place I find eggs lately...the mudroom. Yup. I have a leghorn and a new hampshire who go in through the cat door and lay eggs in the corner. I went to leave the house today and the new hamp was there and she just squawked like mad at me. Silly thing. Of course, I had to go back inside for a paper (squawk) and when I came back out she was silent. I said 'Aren't you gonna yell at me me?' and then SQUAWK! Goofy chicken. LOL

That is great! In the cat door!!!! And "Yes. I shall yell at you!"

Now the real reason I am posting.

Wow! You are a very strong person! I hope those new meds help her and her poor brain gets to rest! I can't even imagine.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Mom, Nova

Idk if it's not chicken related.
.It's gonna be hard because of everything else she's going through, but if you both stay strong

bipolar can be managed. Too many bipolars let themselves act out because of what they are. Just because a mood can change on a dime don't mean you should express it! it's not much different from "the aunt" visiting; yes you get angsty but yes you also have a choice! I was diagnosed bipolar, and i have some pretty extreme ups and downs sometimes, but because i know what's going on i can usually stop myself from acting out.

I will say that during the depressed parts it feels so real, but focusing on something positive is a good way to remember the good. The "up" cycle can be channeled to accomplish great things! (Just not with any money in hand, that's dangerous) Getting the right sleep, and staying away from junk food is also a huge help. Idk why eating healthy helps, but it does. Gotta eat the same as a diabetic, avoid a lot of carbs and too much sugar, caffeine, watch eating wheat and drinking too much milk, sometimes a food allergy can trigger it.

I am big on walking and being active, too. If you are getting in a funk taking a long walk really can snap you out! Or at the least get you out of everyone's hair..................

 

[fuzzybutt love]

My sis hasn't been diagnosed with it, *yet* but it runs in the family. She had a brain scan done, and essentially they said the sparks were going, but they just didn't reach their destination...........*spacey* I have often wondered if that's why the weird mood swings for a bipolar, is that an old message finally reaching it's destination? Dunno.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Night guys, i hope that didn't come off as harsh. Was shooting for positive. ?

 

[NovaAman]

When you avoid processed foods, you are really eliminating those mood altering chemicals that they put into the food. MSG's are very very bad for persons with BP. Fast foods are as well. But the MSGs, HFCS, synthesized sugars... All of those chemicals alter the receptors in the brain and its ability to function properly. FDA and USDA say no, but there is plenty of proof. There is also plenty of proof linking vaccines to increase brain abnormalities. I did not get my kids vacs at all. I do not see why you'd introduce that crap at two months old when birth to 5 is the most critical time for brain development. I chose to not have them for the boys to give their brains a chance to develop normally and hope to avoid the BP. I can hope.

I don't buy foods with MSG. I find I get very cranky and snap very quickly when I don't get enough sleep, have to much "junk" drinks, or if I eat to many fast foods... Being in the car alot, I admit I do. When I notice it, I lay off. BUT I am addicted too, to it, so then it is even worse when I want to go so badly to get McDs and I know I shouldn't. I literally vibrate with a want for it for days until it is out of the system. I have a butt to prove it too. And All I get is a hamburger and fry, cuz I am cheap. BUT I JUST GOTTA HAVE IT! LOL.

The worse moment my I had with my dad was when I went to fetch him from his long walk. I caught up with him a mile before he got to the lake. He was going to go and drown himself. He couldn't shoot himself, we had already gotten rid of the guns. I know he was thankful weeks afterwards... But at the time, it was a real struggle. Aiden, my youngest, when he came along, my dad had some one to live for. Not kidding. He loved Aiden with a passion. Aiden just about died being born. My dad was in the delivery room with me, yeah, and he was in the corner praying. Aiden was the reason my dad admitted himself so many times to the psych ward. So he'd get better, adjust his meds when needed. Keep himself under control. If the heart attack hadn't taken him from us 2 years ago this month, I think he may have been a much happier person because of Aiden. But the nearly two years that he had with my baby really made a difference. He was able to find happiness, and when he got very depressed he was able to bounce back easier because he had something of importance to him to bounce back for.

I think that's what I have with my chickens. They make me giggle everyday. No matter what kind of mood I am in, I know when I go out there, they are all going to come up. Some to get picked up, all for treats, all to see what the heck I am going to do now.

I hope your girl has something like this. Something that she has that will help to keep her grounded, here. It'll take a bit, but she can learn to live with it. She can learn to grow and function with it. And I know she's got great support. She's got you, the greatest love in her life. It'll be OK. Some how it will be ok.