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[ronott1]

@getaclue and @penny1960, that is fantastic news from both of you.

Getaclue, never give up, never surrender!

Penny, give em heck, girl! That is my attitude also. One night at work the CNA's assigned to me were driving me out of my mind. I told them if they didn't get their act together I was going to retire, check myself in and be their worst nightmare of a resident. I'd been taking notes since the first day I'd clocked in and I would be the resident from .......Well, the nurse I was working with nodded and agreed with me. I've never seen aides scatter so fast in my life.

Of course I wasn't serious. They will have to run me down, tackle me and drag me sedated out of my mind before that would ever happen.

Not the best of days. Thought IBS was rearing it's ugly head again then decided this afternoon when I fell asleep on the sofa feeling feverish that maybe I have a virus. Never fails. Every time I go to Walmart, 24 hours later I have a GI bug. I think a higher power is trying to tell me that Wally World is an evil place and I need to stop shopping there.

I did manage to get two plexiglass covers up over windows in two of the coops today. They are calling for rain the next two days so I got laundry caught up. Didn't feel much like eating dinner tonight but I just ate a bowl of Cap'n Crunch without my innards gurgling in protest so I must be feeling a bit better.

My little pullet with something growing on her eyelid now looks as though whatever it is being reabsorbed. She flew up and landed on my shoulder this morning so I brought her in to let DH check it out. No sign of injury, no redness, no drainage for two weeks, now it's seems to be going away on its own. He shrugged and shook his head. He practiced for almost 40 years and it was a first for him. I'd given up on her, myself and was braced for the worst, now she just may beat this thing. Whatever it was!

That is the way I treat chckens too! It is amazing how they recover

 

[CapricornFarm]

I told my doctor that I didn't understand the big attraction to tramadol. All it did was make the pain go away for me with no side effects other than drowsiness. Now the muscle relaxers...those things kick my hiney. The Doc's PA gave me orders NEVER DRIVE WHEN YOU TAKE THEM! So far I've listened to her.

My doctor used to give me prescriptions for muscle relaxers for when i overdid it and had strains with knots in my muscles from working outside. I only used them when i needed them. Sometimes half a pill was enough to let me keep moving. Now no one will refill that or my Xanax for the anxiety i suffer. They say there are better drugs that are less addicting. The thing is i only take them when i need them, and never use them as often as prescribed. Used to be they went crazy on prescribing stuff, now it has swung the other way. If the doctor writes a Rx , the insurance does not want to pay for it. Ugh!

 

[microchick]

I'm getting to be that way, Ron, especially dealing with the $#$@! Marek's disease. I give good supportive care, but it's mainly up to them and the Great Spirit whether or not they beat whatever is wrong with them.

What is that old saying? What doesn't kill me makes me stronger? Same for them.

 

[pennyJo1960]

see I have a script for every six hours on tramadol had Doc back it down to as needed so only get half what i did and that is good as I have two wonderful men that do not allow me to lift unless I just do not say anything

 

[pennyJo1960]

I told my doctor that I didn't understand the big attraction to tramadol. All it did was make the pain go away for me with no side effects other than drowsiness. Now the muscle relaxers...those things kick my hiney. The Doc's PA gave me orders NEVER DRIVE WHEN YOU TAKE THEM! So far I've listened to her.

Yes muscle relaxes i could take like candy and get high told doc no to them as I just get high

 

[ronott1]

I'm getting to be that way, Ron, especially dealing with the $#$@! Marek's disease. I give good supportive care, but it's mainly up to them and the Great Spirit whether or not they beat whatever is wrong with them.

What is that old saying? What doesn't kill me makes me stronger? Same for them.

I will treat wounds and coccidiosis but have never used anti biotics with them. I will worm them but they have not needed worming and of course treat mites and lice. Other than that, if they get sick they go into the hospital kennel in the garage and get water, food and vitamins. It amazes me that they usually recover.

 

[microchick]

That's my RX also Penny. I really hate the muscle relaxers but with the muscle spasms I get in my back they are a necessary evil for me, unfortunately. I can't say they make me high they just knock me out.

Most people can't take benedryl without falling asleep on their feet. If I take it it keeps me awake. Go figure.

My mom would go into heart failure and they would try to increase her digoxin only to find out that she would go digoxin toxic very easily yet they had to keep it high in the low toxic level to keep her out of heart failure so I guess I come by the tendency honestly.

 

[microchick]

I will treat wounds and coccidiosis but have never used anti biotics with them. I will worm them but they have not needed worming and of course treat mites and lice. Other than that, if they get sick they go into the hospital kennel in the garage and get water, food and vitamins. It amazes me that they usually recover.

Yeppers, they are a lot tougher than we give them credit for being. I do keep Terramyacin on hand and give boluses if they have been injured and showing signs of an infection. Usually no more than two or three days worth. Not too much of a withdrawal problem for me as I do not eat my birds, just the eggs so I don't have to worry about that and I don't want to eat the eggs from a bird with an infection anyway.

I had two roosters get beat up by the Bantam Boys this summer. DH swore neither of them were going to pull through due to the severity of their facial injuries. Both did.

 

[ronott1]

Yeppers, they are a lot tougher than we give them credit for being. I do keep Terramyacin on hand and give boluses if they have been injured and showing signs of an infection. Usually no more than two or three days worth. Not too much of a withdrawal problem for me as I do not eat my birds, just the eggs so I don't have to worry about that and I don't want to eat the eggs from a bird with an infection anyway.

I had two roosters get beat up by the Bantam Boys this summer. DH swore neither of them were going to pull through due to the severity of their facial injuries. Both did.

I use vetericyn wound spray for wounds--twice a day in the hospital kennel. Chickens heal very well. They do not have much of a brain but are one of the few creatures that can re grow brain cells.

 

[Beer can]

I use vetericyn wound spray for wounds--twice a day in the hospital kennel. Chickens heal very well. They do not have much of a brain but are one of the few creatures that can re grow brain cells.