Granny's gone and done it again

[CapricornFarm]

My back is killing me.

What happened? You sure have a lot of issues for a young person. I hope you can get past all that.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I wouldn't eat them!

Fussy woman! Try a bite, if it's bad you should be able to tell.

 

[CapricornFarm]

No clue. It hurt yesterday too.

Have a nice hot bath.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Morning Granny Land. It's not good so far. Back to bed I go. I did have the morning routine with Tony. Tony is my one and only Saipan rooster who is in Sick Bay. He has not been well for over a month. Last week I brought him inside to the sun room clinic and he has been in intensive care since. He's getting a strong regimen of vitamins and an antibiotic now. Not sure he is going to make it. He just seems to get a little weaker by the day. No other pullet or rooster that was in his pen outside is the least bit ill. All doing really well. I'm afraid he found one of the toxic weeds and ate to much of it. He still has a very good appetite and drinks lots of water. He will set in my lap and tank up with food and water with no fuss. Wish he could talk. It's going into the 60s after lunch so I will nap and rest until then. Y'all be good now. BBL

Are you feeding him mashed boiled eggs? Complete nutrition for chickens. What are his symptoms?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

It's nice to know your doctor is saying that!!! I take everything the doctors say with a grain of salt these days. The system is set up to push pharmaceuticals. I get that we need them, but I think they are often too quick to throw a pill at a problem before figuring out the root of the problem. They input the info into their computer and follow what the recommendation is. IDK...I guess I'm old enough to remember a different sort of doctor.

Speaking of doctors and pills (and maybe to change the subject), I have quit taking Gabapentin entirely. I was originally prescribed 300mg 3x/day ... at the time I was having sharp random pains all over like someone was sticking needles in a voodoo doll of me somewhere! Fibromyalgia I guess. After a while I stopped taking the noon one and eventually, fairly recently, I stopped taking the morning one too. Then at my last dr visit about a month ago I told my dr I thought I could live without it. The only thing I notice is it's harder to get to sleep and sleep through the night. But I value my liver ... so I'll learn to live without the Gabapentin. I'm not having that pain any more, so ...

 

[ShrekDawg]

What happened? You sure have a lot of issues for a young person. I hope you can get past all that.

No clue. It just started hurting yesterday. And I know and thank you lol

Have a nice hot bath.

I don’t have a tub.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

So take a hot shower and aim the water where it hurts.

 

[ShrekDawg]

So take a hot shower and aim the water where it hurts.

Good idea lol

 

[microchick]

No clue. It just started hurting yesterday. And I know and thank you lol

I don’t have a tub.

Then take a hot shower, girl! And break out the heating pad.

Regarding medicines and people and doctors and all that crazy stuff. I have been watching webinars by dieticians trying to get a handle on what to eat for my particular gut problems, namely diverticular disease because what the doctor told me to eat is making me sick.

I finally found one who is making sense. He is a PHd specializing in Gut Health and said no diet is a blanket solution for gut health. Nobody reacts the same way to the stated diet/fiber suggestions for diverticular disease. I can go one further and say that there isn't a blanket solution for any disease or treatment. People don't react the same to stuff. What helps me, won't help you and what makes you feel good may make me feel like death warmed over.

I wish doctors would get back to knowing their patients and knowing what works for them other than just throwing what big pharma is telling them to do at them, shoving them out the door and moving on to the next patient because they have to see X number of patients per hour in order to make any money.

 

[ValerieJ]

Speaking of doctors and pills (and maybe to change the subject), I have quit taking Gabapentin entirely. I was originally prescribed 300mg 3x/day ... at the time I was having sharp random pains all over like someone was sticking needles in a voodoo doll of me somewhere! Fibromyalgia I guess. After a while I stopped taking the noon one and eventually, fairly recently, I stopped taking the morning one too. Then at my last dr visit about a month ago I told my dr I thought I could live without it. The only thing I notice is it's harder to get to sleep and sleep through the night. But I value my liver ... so I'll learn to live without the Gabapentin. I'm not having that pain any more, so ...

Good for you! I have dropped so much medication lately. Even my chemo therapy, because I believe I don't need it, and quality of life is important too. I will get scanned frequently, so we'll know if I'm right. But my oncologist believes once you have this particular cancer, a fairly rare one, it never leaves your body. He says I have an 85% chance of recurrence. Well, that's not 100%, so I'm going to find out. The other option is to take it for the rest of my life. If the cancer comes back, then I guess I'll have to do that. But it makes me so sick that I want to find out.

We have to take charge of our bodies and make sure we are getting what we need and not what we don't need.

So happy to hear you are not having the fibro pain anymore!