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[chickadoodles]

Cap you need a new Dr. I change Dr.s if I don't trust their treatment. Or lack of.

 

[chickadoodles]

It is great that he is responding. There seem to be more treatments for skin cancer. Jimmy Carter had it move to his brain and they were able to get it with a drug combo.

Let's hope for a cure!

X2

 

[chickisoup]

Needing POTS of the stuff to get started this morning

 

[getaclue]

Deb = perchie. I was very concerned about them automatically removing the lymph nodes as standard procedure, even if they're not affected. This doctor sounds more in line with balancing her overall needs, not just treating her section, by section.

 

[microchick]

@chickisoup. I hear ya. Same here this morning. 16 degrees outside. Ugggh. As I wandered past I told DH 'Okay, I'm ready for spring' and he informed me that it wasn't even winter yet....formally. That didn't start the day well at all.

Our dog with the Degenerative Myelopathy seems to be doing worse. His left hind leg is just about useless and we are having to help him get up using a sling. This is just so hard to watch. He seems to be coping with it better than we are. Yesterday when we got home he was lying by the door and greeted us by picking up one of his toys and playing with it. He was so happy to see us. The degree of trust that has developed is heart warming. Using the sling, he works his front feet and legs and we do the back end and he actually climbs up and down stairs. I look at this disease like cancer. Somebody somewhere has to find a cure and the sooner the better.

No plans for today. Probably will get things caught up here. Finished my Christmas shopping last night. 100% on line this year using paypal. No crowds to deal with. I love it!

Winter is a dangerous time here. I get bored and start making plans to enlarge my runs. This year I need a bigger rooster run. DH just groans and shakes his head.

 

[ronott1]

Deb = perchie. I was very concerned about them automatically removing the lymph nodes as standard procedure, even if they're not affected. This doctor sounds more in line with balancing her overall needs, not just treating her section, by section.

Finally they have figured out that lymph nodes are important!

I read an article about moving lymph nodes back from other parts of the body after surgery. If not, then the place where the lymph nodes were removed swells up. On Woman could not move her left arm. After moving lymph nodes from, I think, her back she regained use and the swelling went down

 

[CapricornFarm]

Cap you need a new Dr. I change Dr.s if I don't trust their treatment. Or lack of.

I knew i was changing at New Years or i would have tossed her sooner.

 

[CapricornFarm]

@chickisoup. I hear ya. Same here this morning. 16 degrees outside. Ugggh. As I wandered past I told DH 'Okay, I'm ready for spring' and he informed me that it wasn't even winter yet....formally. That didn't start the day well at all.

Our dog with the Degenerative Myelopathy seems to be doing worse. His left hind leg is just about useless and we are having to help him get up using a sling. This is just so hard to watch. He seems to be coping with it better than we are. Yesterday when we got home he was lying by the door and greeted us by picking up one of his toys and playing with it. He was so happy to see us. The degree of trust that has developed is heart warming. Using the sling, he works his front feet and legs and we do the back end and he actually climbs up and down stairs. I look at this disease like cancer. Somebody somewhere has to find a cure and the sooner the better.

No plans for today. Probably will get things caught up here. Finished my Christmas shopping last night. 100% on line this year using paypal. No crowds to deal with. I love it!

Winter is a dangerous time here. I get bored and start making plans to enlarge my runs. This year I need a bigger rooster run. DH just groans and shakes his head.

So sorry this is happening to your dog. I wish there were a treatment for it.

 

[chickadoodles]

So sorry this is happening to your dog. I wish there were a treatment for it.

x2

 

[microchick]

Thanks guys. I'm telling everyone I know that if you are thinking about adopting or buying a dog, look on line for which dogs are most susceptible to DM and if you go to a breeder ask them if they have tested their breeding dogs for the SOD1 gene for DM and if they have could you please see the lab reports. The dogs with the recessive gene seem to be less likely to develop the disease but carry a lower rate of affliction. They can pass on the gene to their offspring and if bred to a dog with a non recessive gene will produce pups that have a higher chance of developing DM. Non recessive genes have a high likelihood of developing DM.

I think at the moment the most susceptible breed seems to be German Shepherds. Heartbreaking is all I can say.

I just came in from working with my chickens. The bantam males are so funny. Two or three at a time put in with standard roosters and they get along fine. But if you have 8 or 10 in with standard roosters they start ganging up on the standard roosters and beating them up. My only option at this point is to return as many of the healthy standard hens to the main coop and split up the boys littles from bigs and hope for the best.

Marek's disease. I have two standard hens and 1 standard rooster with Ocular Mareks that I just don't know what to do with them. I keep telling myself that everyone is exposed at this point whether they are in the same pen together or in separate coops but I just hate looking at a hen who is holding her own and seeing these obviously infected eyes.