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[Kassaundra]

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There are several conditions that mimic cardiac chest pain, and if you know you have one of these, then it does become an educated "guess" if the pain is the same as it always is, then not going for every chest pain becomes sensible. But acute onset of chest pain that is not normal for you and waking from sleep w/o any previous medical hx of conditions that mimic cardiac events, and w/o any prior tests ruling out cardiac for said pain is playing russian roulette, and the cost of losing is great!

 

[Kassaundra]

I can't even count how many people's family (mostly men) have called 911 for the guy having cp, and we show up and the guy is saying "It's only indigestion" or something similar, and we hook them up to the monitor and they are in the middle of a cardiac event ranging from "light heart attack" which is still tissue death just not as much or in a less critical area of the heart to massive MI that is so severe they don't even make it to the ER. Just two or three weeks ago we had a pt who insisted he wasn't feeling bad enough to go to the ER, (his family insisted and he finally relented to them and went) he had a massive MI that was not survivable.

 

[Poco Pollo]

Beth - I sent you a PM. It's raining buckets here so I can't load my truck. I know the ducks won't mind the rain, but the chickens will not be happy if they have to ride all the way into the city wearing wet feathers. I will post again when I'm headed to the Admiral Flea Market. You've got my cell number, and I've got yours somewhere. I will send you another PM when I'm able to drive north.

 

[poultryand bees]

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Preach on! Too many men, including doctors, have been found dead with antacid in their mouth because they thought they were just having indigestion.

 

[poultryand bees]

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Maybe moving the bator was the secret to your hatching success. Maybe you should plan to drive the bator around in the car awhile in the middle of every incubation period.

I can see it now, everytime someone wants a good hatch, they load up the incubator and drive a few miles, bring it home and plug it back in.

Of course, Teach is hopeing that this method works since he had to move his loaded incubators home from school this past week.

 

[poultryand bees]

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You have found a wonderful group of folks who either live in Oklahoma or wish they lived in Oklahoma

Getting littles first and building housing for them second is the best way to do it. You don't have to wait to fill the housing since they are old enough to go into the coop by the time it is finished.

 

[NanaKat]

Caught up...
Round up today...so just checking in

Only got just under a quarter inch....need several inches to fill up the ponds...keep praying.
Thanking God for the rain ya'll got.

Welcome to the newby with the "Littles"....cute

We use red cedar branches for our roost. We peel the bark off and make sure the little branch knobs are sanded smooth. Not had any foot issues since. The branches are 1 inch to 2" diameter branches.

My mom had a heart attacK when out in the desert on a rock hounding trip...thought it was just heat exhaustion. During a hospital visit for cancer several years later...it was discovered that her heart had sustained a 15% tissue loss. Fortunately not the lower lobe called the "widow-maker" where a blood vessel feeds that part of the heart. We got a wake-up call and all of us don't take chest pain, radiating pain for granted. Also...women exhibit different symptoms than men do.

Hope your chickens are not soaked today and no one had any damage last night.

 

[Buster52]

Well, in my case, I know it's heart related. It's become sort of routine for me.

 

[CityClucks]

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Got your PM - please disregard the voice message from me on your cell phone. I'll hang out to see what you decide, and remember we'll see each other Thursday if today doesn't work out for us to meet!

 

[poultryand bees]

Cold and gentle rain coming down