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[pennyJo1960]

gotta love finals

 

[ronott1]

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Me Too!

Since I am Staff, finals are half priced coffee and a break for me soon. I will be off from work from thee 20th to the second of Janurary

 

[pennyJo1960]

Me Too!

Since I am Staff, finals are half priced coffee and a break for me soon. I will be off from work from thee 20th to the second of Janurary

really cannot get mad at that as my break is everyday all day but makes your time to retirement go a bit faster also

 

[ronott1]

really cannot get mad at that as my break is everyday all day but makes your time to retirement go a bit faster also

Summer of 2020!

hope it comes soon! Gotta be patient!

 

[microchick]

Thanks everyone. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Last year was rough. This year I have a plan. Get all the extra roosters out of the main pen before the end of January.Worm everyone in January, Wazine, safeguard and corid. Treat for mites then start praying. Hopefully getting the extra roosters away from the hens will help the breeding stress (although roosters tend to make their own stress) and the good news is that the 4 Buff O hens and the one Welsummer hen were all healthy and pleasantly plump when they transferred over. Those hens will be three the first of March and at this point I think I can consider them resistant.

Yeah, I'm a bull dog. I won't let go easy. I was going to add Egyptian Fayoumi's to the flock this year but am considering waiting till next year until I see how well my Bantam crosses do this spring. By spring of 2019 I'll have two year old bantams that will give me resistant breeding stock to work with. I told DH I may pick up a few vaccinated chicks this spring from Orschelns to put in with my two vaccinated BBR hens. So far they are doing very well and my young BBR cross Bantam cockerels are covering them. By the end of winter I want to have my smallest cockerels in with the hens. Yep, I'm going with littles.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Sure sounds like you have a solid plan

 

[ronott1]

Thanks everyone. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Last year was rough. This year I have a plan. Get all the extra roosters out of the main pen before the end of January.Worm everyone in January, Wazine, safeguard and corid. Treat for mites then start praying. Hopefully getting the extra roosters away from the hens will help the breeding stress (although roosters tend to make their own stress) and the good news is that the 4 Buff O hens and the one Welsummer hen were all healthy and pleasantly plump when they transferred over. Those hens will be three the first of March and at this point I think I can consider them resistant.

Yeah, I'm a bull dog. I won't let go easy. I was going to add Egyptian Fayoumi's to the flock this year but am considering waiting till next year until I see how well my Bantam crosses do this spring. By spring of 2019 I'll have two year old bantams that will give me resistant breeding stock to work with. I told DH I may pick up a few vaccinated chicks this spring from Orschelns to put in with my two vaccinated BBR hens. So far they are doing very well and my young BBR cross Bantam cockerels are covering them. By the end of winter I want to have my smallest cockerels in with the hens. Yep, I'm going with littles.

I may start with quail to see how I like them.

It is quite an adventure!

I am hoping for the best with your plan

 

[Cynthia12]

That's exactly what our FIL's doctor did to him, the doc wrote it off and he suffered a bad stroke that left him in a wheelchair for the last year of his life. Just awful! He was such an active healthy man. There was absolutely no reason for the miss, he'd been to see his doctor more than once. Dh suffered his second blood clot within a few months and if it'd been the other way around...we would've caught the symptoms.

He likes to give me a good scare every once in a while...lol.



Good to see you!



Us too! It's not going to be this doctor now that we know more...lol.


Thanks everyone for the well wishes!

I brought DH home Thursday evening. He's still having discomfort in the area of the clot but he's very happy to be home. We purchased a couple more pairs of sweatpants for him so he's not wearing jeans.

We made a follow-up appointment on Friday with the doctor. Before we got into the appointment, DH experienced the pain and tightness he's been having presumably from his hiatus hernia. He had pain spiking up either side of his neck, so the doctor sent him to the hospital side for tests. Again...lol. Thankfully all the tests came back negative and he was released in time so we could have supper before the restaurant closed.

We learned some pertinent information. We learned that the fantastic young nurse is the one who called the clot from their side, NOT the doctor. Should've known. And she told us exactly what we need to be aware of while his body's breaking down the clot and things we need to be aware of. I assumed from what I've read he'd be at a higher risk of clots and heart attack right now. We told her she needs to become a doctor...because she'd make an amazing doctor.

The doctors are very vague about what we need to watch for. I'm not certain if they're afraid that patients can't handle it. But we can and we need to know.

Perhaps that's how it is in the city? I'm not sure. The hospital I took him to is in a town with approximately 3200 people. It sounds like they have 4 doctors; all of them will be general practitioners that take turns covering emergency hours. There's no surgery/birthing etc. as there won't be a surgical nurse/anesthetist on staff. Basically, the doc is there to stabilize in case of severe emergency and you'd be sent on to the closest city hospital which is another hour away.

Even at that, our closest city (there are only two "cities" in Manitoba) at 60,000 population doesn't have "all" the specialists and abilities of Winnipeg and their hospitals. We don't have a Haematologist apparently...lol.

We must not have just ER docs on second thought. The doctor that saw DH is the surgeon who will be repairing his hiatal hernia. He must have been one of the doctors on call because it was the weekend and he was one of the surgeons on call because he also was performing surgery while we were waiting last Sunday. From as much as we've seen him, we know he performs surgery all week from early morning until noon/mid-afternoon. He has regular office hours after his daily surgeries. But then he also has surgeries booked after his office hours. Somewhere between that, he visits his patients that are in the hospital. I'm not sure when he sleeps because he's also called in during the night for surgeries.

With the second clot, it was an emerg doc who saw us.

Wow, just seeing this. So glad he got those clots taken care of. He will feel sooo much better too, when he gets the hernia taken care of. My hubby has had a few of those done. One, then three at once! Plus he suggested that while he was in there, to take out his appendix. My husband says, sure, want to take my tonsils while your at it? He he, should have seen the look on the docs. face. Then he goes on to explain how doing so could be saving him from another future surgery. Good luck to your hubby. He's going to feel brand new after all this is done.

 

[Alaskan]

I'm spoiled. Unless DH sleeps in, I wake up to fresh brewed coffee every morning.

He knows not to expect too much coherence out of me until I've had a sip or two and smiled.

this is supposed to be how it works at this house...meven walking downstairs in a fog, child handing me freshly brewed coffee!

Maybe some coal in his stocking from Santa?

my kids love coal. coal= heat

 

[ronott1]

this is supposed to be how it works at this house...meven walking downstairs in a fog, child handing me freshly brewed coffee!



my kids love coal. coal= heat

I have seen black licorice coal too. It is quite tasty but does not make heat