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[Cockatrice6420]

I take lots & lots of supplements.
I have Celiac Disease, Livido reticularis, Sjoren's, Hashimoto's, Raynaud's....and have skin involvement from time to time like Drema graphia...and localized sudden onset scalding (as if someone had tossed boiling oil on me!) which can heal almost as fast as it erupts, and then sometimes (rarely) I can wake up to a discoid rash...(at first I could not figure out how I could have 'caught' ring worm all over my entire body ????)
These discoid rashes each occured after a trauma, like when I fell/slipped & tore my knee out...
Putting 1 + 1 together is still pointing at Lupus...but I have yet to go get tested.
I am at a doc's or hospital like 1 X a week and I am sick of it.
Next time I guess I get the ANA test for that.
I have not looked it up enough to know if the disease goes undetected if it is not in 'flare'...so if it is unactive (dormant) I may not have antibodies to it ?
Not sure.

It is hard. My rheumatologist told me "just because you have one auto immune problem doesn't mean you can't have more." It is such a process to get diagnosed, all you know as the patient is that there is SOMETHING wrong.

 

[QuiltinGramma]

Chickielady...thanks so much for the heads-up on fraying tarp. I do NOT want to have to cut tarp strings out of my chicken's mouths.
Sorry, you aren't feeling well. I hope you can get this under control sooner rather than later.

 

[Hinotori]

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Dang. That's a lot. I wish you didn't have to deal with such things.

It makes the little issues I have seem insignificant. My woman's issue from this last spring when I visited you has been resolved. Apparently it was brought on by my weight loss and the fact that I'd taken up a ton of walking. The doctor wasn't concerned as it lessened over the next couple months to no issue at all. Now I'm supposed to keep up the walking. It does good for me and doesn't put to much stress on my right knee.

 

[Hinotori]

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I'll remember that on the strings. I probably need to go clean some of those off the one after that storm. I'm not bending super well at the moment. Pulled something in my back doing who knows what. Not the first time I did something I shouldn't. So as soon as I bend better, I have a new one to go up.

 

[Cockatrice6420]

Hello all - in Kitsap we've had lots of rain and the forecast is showing more on the way, with cooler temps. My pullets are about 12 weeks old, so what should I be doing to care for them during this coming autumn weather? TIA

Oh, and beware of vermin. Now they are trying to stock up for winter.

 

[Cockatrice6420]

The sun appeared today!

 

[Frindizzle]

Hi everyone!

 

[justdishy]

Oh, and beware of vermin. Now they are trying to stock up for winter.

 

[justdishy]

Last week I was outside at night using a flashlight to find one of my ranging rabbits. Saw a small rat, near coop. Did not find rabbit that night. Next morning I found the rat dead in front of coop, it's only wound was small punctures in lower abdomen like my rabbits have been known to give. Researched it and found that rabbits can and do kill rats! Yay!

 

[Cockatrice6420]

Yup, I just lost a nearly month old chick last night to a rat. Nasty buggers. Relocated the rest if my babes into a section of one of the big coops this morning. Got traps and bait set out at night when the birds are put up... but rats are sneaky and smart.