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Blooie said:
Busy day yesterday...but I'm here....

@KDOGG331 Didn't they do a skin scraping too?

@Teila, you risked a trip to the village? We TOLD you to stay home, doggone it!

@JaeG. I think the last time I sat down in a movie theater was probably when we saw Twister. The guys didn't want to see it, so Linda, Lori and I went to that showing in one theater and Steve, Russ and Ken veered off to another theater in the same complex to see something else. That was the last time, because I hated it. Not the movie necessarily, but the sound! It's always so doggone loud in theaters. And is there anything more fun than a sleepover with a family of giggly kids? Bet your mom had just as good a time as they did!

We think we know what happened to Kendra. In this new 'palace" that the kids bought, the transition strips between the different types of flooring aren't the strips that are flat with a slight dome to them. In this house they are just strips of painted wood, like this sorta: ] , but flipped down. We think she was crawling in to be in the kitchen with us, had a seizure and when she went down on her face she hit that strip. Kenny said the blood is on the edge on the dining room side where the hardwood floor becomes tile. Makes perfect sense...more sense than any other theory. But she was here yesterday after school, and back to her old rowdy self.

We need to have 5 seasons....spring, summer, winter, fall, and unwintering. I'm so sick of mud. The bus drops Kendra off across the street because that's the side of the bus that the handicapped lift is on. Then we have to push her across the street, between our cars to the sidewalk, and over the snow remaining. Mud...slippery ice.... I think I'm going to see if I have any influence with the town council to see if we can get a bib put in. The sidewalks they put in all over town are just like the transition strip I tried to show before....it just drops about 3 inches on each side. They are nice and wide - 2 people can ride horseback side by side on them - but they just drop off on the street side and on the grass side.

Fighting that wheelchair is getting harder and harder to do. If we just had a gradual, wide, cement "landing" to the gate to the house that would help tremendously. As it is, we have a small sidewalk that comes off the town's sidewalk leading to our gate and it's an abrupt dropoff! I dunno...we have to do something. If the town turns us down, I'll start a doggone "GoFundMe" account. :he Nah, not really. We'll figure out something, but this is getting ridiculous for a 70 year old man and 67 year old woman to try to handle. She weighs 57 pounds now, and is well over 4 feet tall....and she hangs like dead weight when we do have to carry her.
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It’s very muddy here too. I just walked the long way to the coop and almost lost my shoes and there were no eggs:barnieI would donate to your GoFundMe Blooie:hugs
 
Blooie said:
Yep, she was a lot littler! :lau The seizures are just part of living with and loving Kendra, Bruce. I'm sure we'll get it resolved or at least controlled. If she'd just stop growing!! No, wait...I don't want that either!
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Do loud noises cause her to have seizures? My neighbors boy has seizures...epilepsy due to damage during birth...loud noises cause him to seize. Scary business.
 
Wild day yesterday. Helped a neighbour skin, gut & halve a dozen pigs. Best part was the whiskey afterwards ...
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Blooie said:
A skin scraping checks for mites that have burrowed under the skin. Yes, they can cause a secondary bacterial infection on the surface, but so can many other things. Flea bite dermatitis, contact dermatitis, compromised immune system, low enzyme levels, wonky PH, dry winter skin, food or environmental allergies...just like with us, anything that makes us itch and scratch causes breaks in the barrier the skin provides, leading to secondary infections. I'm kinda assuming that since he just used the tape, he didn't see anything that led him to believe mites might be the issue - he was there, I wasn't. It's just that in any vet clinic I ever worked at, any dog or cat that was brought in for skin issues automatically had a skin scraping done. That was a while back, so maybe things have changed.

We are going to change out the transition strips..never thought they'd be an issue since she instantly learned to deal with them, but often Kendra is so "normal" to us that we become a little blind to hazards that might lead to injury - just don't even notice them. Sad to say, but it's true. Yes, she has a lot of seizures. She's on 3 different meds for them now and if there is no change in how much more physical they're getting or how often they are happening, they'll look into adjustments or changes at her next appointment. Finding the right combination and balance of meds for seizures is often done by the "hunt and peck" method. It's frustrating, but Jenny and I have both learned the same things trying to find the right meds and dosages for our epilepsy too, so we know how it works. Kendra has the added complication of simply growing. So what worked well at 2 years old ain't gonna work so well at 6 without adjustments.

And yep, people really do ride horses down the sidewalk. This is just a composite shot of a group of photographs, but you can see Little Diane (short, dark hair) her friend Elizabeth and Liz's sister Melissa coming home from school after playing at the playground for awhile.View attachment 1290737
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Thanks for all the info! Yeah, idk what he saw because he went in the other room but he said it was scaly and bacteria. Could you see even a slight indication of mites with just tape? I did find it kind of odd he didn't do a skin scraping but at the time figured tape was the same. Maybe not. But he is already seeming better and wanting to play so as long as he continues improving I won't question.

Our vet is kind of old school idk. He is very nice, great with the animals, and very reasonable, all of which are very important, but the office is tiny and building pretty old so probably not very much updated equipment? Idk. Although skin scraping isn't exactly a new revolutionary technique but still.

I am nervous about taking him to another busier vet with more dogs because he's not that great with other dogs.

But he seems to be getting better already so I'm happy. But if it comes back or if he doesn't improve then I might consider a second opinion.

And ah okay! Putting something different in is probably a good idea!

Sorry about all the trouble with the seizures :(

Hopefully you figure it out soon!

And aww cute!

I would love to be in an area where horses just ride down the sidewalk haha

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Yes, I'd forgotten how loud the movies are - me and DH commented on that fact at exactly the same time! But it was a good movie - we saw Black Panther. I like a good super hero movie and it was thought provoking, the fighting was very dramatic but not violent (with very little blood and certainly no gore) and there was nothing sexual about it which is a refreshing change. Most super hero movies I wouldn't let even older kids watch, but that one I would. The costumes were beautiful, there was some great humour in it, and it had a nice dose of 'girl power' too.

I got out early and cleaned out the chickens. I was very relieved not to find even a hint of red mites anywhere. Now I've got a few things I 'should' do but I kind of want to enjoy my day too, so I won't go crazy on the housework. I really do need to vacuum though - there are feathers from quail and cockatiels everywhere!

Kelsey, I'm glad Gator is hopefully on the road to recover, poor boy. There's nothing worse than being itchy. I have to say my first thought was mange mites of some kind so maybe you could ask if that could be a factor next time you talk to the vet.
 

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