Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[vehve]

the operation you are referring to is arthroscopy - and often it is done with arthritis which is totally useless as well as over done for other diagnosis.

it is very over used

I am waiting on official diagnosis after the MRI my bet is its Osteoarthitis - if so surgery is only option.

Even if its an arthroscopy for a menisectomy - I will have it as right now I am pretty much useless

Reading your story I'd say our definitions of "useless" differ somewhat... But I'm sure you'll be a bipod in no time. Just remember to do whatever physio you're prescribed (My right wrist never got full range of motion back after breaking it due to me being lazy with the exercises I was supposed to do. Teenagers are stupid that way.)

 

[dpenning]

Reading your story I'd say our definitions of "useless" differ somewhat...

+1 LOL Good luck with the surgery OZ!

 

[ozexpat]

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[vehve]

Since many people here seem to have an interest in Swedish Flower hens, I thought this could be a good place to ask. Does anyone know what, if any, common ancestors they have with the Finnish "aboriginal" breeds? All material I've found in Finnish mainly dates back to the different Finnish breeds starting from the seventies, but I'm wondering if anyone has any knowledge of how chickens have migrated to Scandinavia. We should be getting three Alho hens in a couple of week, and to my untrained eye they seem to share some physical similarities with the Swedish Flower hens. Oh and Oz, I forget, have you managed to get your own SFH's to hatch yet? (Wonder if the local Ikea might carry some...)

 

[Penny Hen]

the operation you are referring to is arthroscopy - and often it is done with arthritis which is totally useless as well as over done for other diagnosis.

it is very over used

I am waiting on official diagnosis after the MRI my bet is its Osteoarthitis - if so surgery is only option.

Even if its an arthroscopy for a menisectomy - I will have it as right now I am pretty much useless

Oz this doesn't fix the problem but it does help with the swelling and pain. Apple cider vinegar and a brown paper bag. Tear up the brown paper bag into strips and dip into the vinegar. Wrap affected body part in the wet strips for 30 minutes. Remove and rinse so the vinegar doesn't burn your skin. DON'T EVER fall asleep with this on. I ended up with blisters! This is Great Granny Hensen's cure for sprained ankles and anything else that made joints swell. She used to swear that it needed to be brown paper that a white paper sack wouldn't work right. Who knows. Considering that DMSO (Dimethyl sulfoxide) is extracted from paper pulp, the vinegar may be soaking out trace amounts of that as well (which would be most likely in brown paper than white paper).

DMSO does work well but you must be VERY careful in it's use because it can snatch other chemicals and drag them deep into your bones. My dad used it but he never used anything to apply it but clean white cotton. He would wait until it was totally dried and absorbed before dressing so it wouldn't snatch the dye out of his jeans and drag it inside his body. For those of you who might not have heard of this it is a common veterinary medicine used with race horses extensively. Smells like garlic and 5 to 10 minutes after you rub it on you will taste garlic in your mouth. Makes it impossible to do a double blind test with a placebo so it has never been able to be approved for human use by the FDA. And there are dumb people that would not use proper precautions and accidentally poison themselves by contaminating the DMSO.

 

[ozexpat]

Oz this doesn't fix the problem but it does help with the swelling and pain. Apple cider vinegar and a brown paper bag. Tear up the brown paper bag into strips and dip into the vinegar. Wrap affected body part in the wet strips for 30 minutes. Remove and rinse so the vinegar doesn't burn your skin. DON'T EVER fall asleep with this on. I ended up with blisters! This is Great Granny Hensen's cure for sprained ankles and anything else that made joints swell. She used to swear that it needed to be brown paper that a white paper sack wouldn't work right. Who knows. Considering that DMSO (Dimethyl sulfoxide) is extracted from paper pulp, the vinegar may be soaking out trace amounts of that as well (which would be most likely in brown paper than white paper).

DMSO does work well but you must be VERY careful in it's use because it can snatch other chemicals and drag them deep into your bones. My dad used it but he never used anything to apply it but clean white cotton. He would wait until it was totally dried and absorbed before dressing so it wouldn't snatch the dye out of his jeans and drag it inside his body. For those of you who might not have heard of this it is a common veterinary medicine used with race horses extensively. Smells like garlic and 5 to 10 minutes after you rub it on you will taste garlic in your mouth. Makes it impossible to do a double blind test with a placebo so it has never been able to be approved for human use by the FDA. And there are dumb people that would not use proper precautions and accidentally poison themselves by contaminating the DMSO.

amazing

 

[ramirezframing]

Quote: Never had a problem when I have used DMSO or horse liniment, but I do let it dry before covering it in clothes. Works pretty well. Glad to see I aint the only one (outside of my family) who has done this.

Good luck Oz with the knee.

 

[ozexpat]

Since many people here seem to have an interest in Swedish Flower hens, I thought this could be a good place to ask. Does anyone know what, if any, common ancestors they have with the Finnish "aboriginal" breeds? All material I've found in Finnish mainly dates back to the different Finnish breeds starting from the seventies, but I'm wondering if anyone has any knowledge of how chickens have migrated to Scandinavia. We should be getting three Alho hens in a couple of week, and to my untrained eye they seem to share some physical similarities with the Swedish Flower hens. Oh and Oz, I forget, have you managed to get your own SFH's to hatch yet? (Wonder if the local Ikea might carry some...)

big laugh on the ikea

I have hatched 3 but they were accidently mixed with mutts with a touch of polish in them so i have to play sort the chicken when i get back

 

[vehve]

big laugh on the ikea

I have hatched 3 but they were accidently mixed with mutts with a touch of polish in them so i have to play sort the chicken when i get back

Shouldn't be too hard, according to the Swedish site the coloring is quite clearly defined as "virtually anything"

 

[chickensnbees]

Never had a problem when I have used DMSO or horse liniment, but I do let it dry before covering it in clothes. Works pretty well. Glad to see I aint the only one (outside of my family) who has done this. 


Good luck Oz with the knee.

I also used DMSO for strains when I had horses who by the way we're usually responsible for my strains. When I was in high school, the pitchers on the baseball team used to borrow it from me to rub on their throwing arm during games!