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[Duck Drover]

Don't think a fatty liver is damage, it is just fatty.
That said, large doses of any medication whatsoever can damage the entire digestive system, stomach, gut, liver and kidneys...kidneys probably suffer the worst as they have to work so hard to clean the meds out of our blood.
Few folks think about kidneys...most worry about their stomach (ulcers) and liver damage...
I already have Celiac Disease, undiagnosed for 45 years, did some seriously bad damage & scar tissue to my gut...

Then........

I  had a gallstone attack 2 years ago & though I was gonna die !

It was like red hot poker stabbing in  under/over/behind my stomach...and got so bad I could barely bare it...nausea, vomiting, BP was SKY HIGH (from pain)...slite fevver.... paralyzing pain that means you cannot sit or lie down.........very hard to breathe.......since I am deathly allergic to all narcotics, my ER was baffled and a bit scared on how to treat my pain despite what I told them I could have....toradol (ketoralac)  only...did I sp that correctly ?

It was like birth contractions, with no rest periods...just a big long cramping contraction !

(Kidney stones must be horrific !!!)

So later X rays & waiting for 4 hours, in escruciating pain, they gave me toradol.
THEN I had my GB out...there was still a few stones & docs worry that one will block the passage used by the liver,  and pancreas...and that can be deadly...having emergency pancreatic surgery has a less than happy survival rates................
THEN while they were surgically removing the gall bladder the doc 'saw' a tumor in the pancreas.....................
THEN they closed me up & the anesthesialogist gave me a whopper shot of Dilantin in the recovery room to make sure I had no pain....and left the hospital (it was now 6 PM) and I went into anaphalactic shock 

(WHOOPIE!!!           e )
But  I awoke long enough to choke & gag for air & convine a nurse I was dying..........she kept trying to give me my athsma inhaler   (   so funny!)
Finally she got the message & gave me a Narcan & benadrl...........

Now I have to have endoscopies every year at VM hospital to do ultrasound mesaurement of this tumor, on biopsy it is a  nueral endocrine tumor...and so far I have avoided the most dreaded & difficult surgeries in the world:

The" Whipple Surgery."..where they cut the liver off, stomach off the joint "tubing" to the gut, and remove the stomach to get at the pancreas, then cut the pancreas in half, fold it over & sew it back up....wether you loose alot of the inside, or the outside of the pancreas then determines your future....if you will make enough digestive enzymes, endocrine & insulin.

So this is not the kind of pancreatic tumors that say, Steve Jobs and Patrick Swayze had.....but still....I now try live better...do things that make me happy, concentrate on the psoitive and push negativity and toxic people away, I  have no more capacity to deal with their BS.........

So far, my tumor is not growing.
If it does, and it can at any time, it will block the pancreatic duct, the mutual passage from liver & pancreas to the gut...and then it is instant whipple for me.

There is only 2 doctors in the US that can do the whipple, and do it well, and I had a meeting with one of them, luckily he is at Virginia Mason in Seattle......(     https://www.virginiamason.org/body.cfm?id=1175&action=detail&ref=1014  )....................... .and in a joint meeting with him & my GI doc............(  https://www.virginiamason.org/body.cfm?id=1175&action=detail&ref=774 )............    we discussed this  sugery....it is awful.........and few survive it...so yeah, enjoy life !!

I wanted to just have it taken out & get it over with...but the risks are awful.............better to watch & IF anything changes, then we schedule the surgery.
Scarey stuff...I have had ALOT of sugeries...but this one is the worst surg in the world...heart surgery is easier & less envasive !

But we never knew the tumor was there, you cannot see the pancreas, in CT or X ray or ultrasound (unkess you do an endoscopy & ultrasound INSIDE the body...so  we never knew it was there til they took out the gall bladder...weird, huh ?

The Whipple Surgery if ya wanna see some scarey stuff :

https://www.froedtert.com/upload/docs/services/liver-pancreas-bile/whipple-illustrations.pdf


I HIGHLY recommend the GI team at Virginia Mason Hospital !!!!!!!     I LOVE my doctors !

Excuse the novella guys !

I was told by the arthritis study doctor that ibuprofen can cause kidney damage while it is the acetaminophen that damages the liver. I have taken too much of both to manage my ankle pain for all the months I kept walking on it but I have also had ulcers so I am not sure if everything got assaulted in a short period of time or if it is just advancing age that is to blame. I am going to try changing my diet and stay off pain medications so hopefully something I am doing will be effective even if I don't know what is responsible. I am not getting any younger so I can't fix that.

I can't imagine going through all you have gone through with your digestive system so I certainly want to avoid all that. I wonder if my stomach pain is really the gall bladder. I feel pain that I have assumed was from stomach acid but I don't actually know what body parts could be involved. I tend to eat bland foods like rice and pasta that fill me up without necessarily being the most nutritious and I like breads and pasteries too much so I need to give them up. I will have more bloodwork done in a month so that will give me an idea if changing my diet is helping at all.

I imagine it must be difficult having so many surgeries. I would like to avoid any more but it is fortunate that doctors can make life-saving repairs on bodies. It sounds like you have had one part fixed only to have something else need fixing. I am not good at pinpointing pain because my brain tries to dull it rather than focus on it and I tend to believe it will go away on its own. If there are things I can do to improve my health without a bunch of appointments and medical bills, then I want to figure it out and work on doing what helps me feel better. I definately need to lose weight so eating healthier will help that too.

 

[Duck Drover]

I did that too...and had the hyster and the OOOpher at the same time...glad to get rid of it !
But it takes a long time to recoop with a hyster too!!!!!!!!!!

YOU MUST REST !

I have a follow-up on the 5th so I should know more then if they get results from the biopsy before the appointment. I went in to the wildlife center to help with intakes yesterday, just over 24 hours after surgery, so I did not get to rest too much but I only did light duty. I had called out but then everyone else called in sick so I went in to help the doctor. I love my volunteer job so it helped distract me from the cramps.

The biggest issue is the vomiting from the pain (for some reason that is how my body responds to pain) irritating my throat, which was already sore from the breathing tube. Then I went to see Beauty and the Beast last night since my daughter works at AMC and I had to have (free) popcorn and cherry vanilla Sprite, which was not kind to my stomach and throat. The movie was great so it was a good distraction from the cramps at least.

 

[Duck Drover]

I had some Lavendar Orp cockerels for sale last fall, for $10 to good homes only...and had a guy call & want one.
It took DAYS of hemming & hawwing to finally set up a time he could come pick up the bird...at 4:30 PM on a week day, and me with dinner cooking on the stove and a hungry bunch waiting for food........I caught & crated the big cockerel in a cardboard box....and waited by my gate..........and waited and waited...and at 5:30 I released the bird  back into his pen and went inside to get dinner on the table & I tried to call the nutjob back...finally he answered the cell at 6 PM...and I  said HI, he said " OH HI.is that your place with the cute chicken sign out front ?"
"YES"     I said........................
He said" OH OK, we went by a while ago & now we are at the boat launch and letting my kids play out at the water."

I said  "I thought you were going to be here at 4:30 to pick up this bird, and when you did not show up, I released him."

He began to sound rather angry now, and said "Oh, well,  we can make it back there is about 20 minutes" 
I said "we will have to make another appoinment, we are already sitting down to dinner"

Now he was really angry and he says "WELL, you don't understand how difficult it is for me to get off work, and pick up my wife at her work, and the kids at school so we could all get over to your place" and I interuptted him and said,  "This is our home, not a petting zoo, and it is also a bio-secure area. We do not have people walking in around here.
If you want the bird, you can come tomorrow, I will catch him again for you and you can once again meet me by the gate, the bird will be once again in a cardboard box, as we arranged about in the last meeting."

He hung up..very very angry !
As if this was some sort of petting zoo to bring the freaking family..after 5 PM no less !
And playing in the water at the boat launch instead of meeting me to pick up the bird in the first place....a bird worth an easy $50...................

He never called back, and he can kiss my grits if ya know what I mean.

I get people thinking I am in the bird business and therefore available to spend unlimited time with them answering questions because they don't do their research. They will show up hours after they say they are coming and then they want to hang out looking at everything and asking questions. I am at the point where I would rather meet somewhere else so people don't assume I have nothing else to do than give a private class on how to care for birds. I don't usually give out my phone number because I get people calling me for information and advice at all hours of the day. I don't mind helping people but some people will take advantage of my time.

 

[Duck Drover]

I had more Easter Eggers hatch today and they look like the first one (and the dark one pictured), for the most part. I had these other two hatch out a couple days ago and I took pictures today (picture below). Their coloring is so unusual that I might raise them to see how they feather out. They are 3/4 Quechua and 1/4 Easter Egger so basically Easter Eggers that look like the original Easter Eggers rather than the more mixed breed Easter Eggers. I am hoping their feather color is as striking as their down color.

 

[junebuggena]

Neat. My incubator is full with 20 eggs laid by my second generation Quechua-type Easter Eggers. Due on Tuesday. Cannot wait to see what hatches.

 

[theceltichorse]

Does anyone local to me have Mille Fleur chicks or eggs? I have a friend who is looking for some.

 

[Hinotori]

I set 28 silkie eggs last night. All from the mutant giant silkie rooster. Hopefully I get a few large females this time.

At 12.5 weeks the cockerel I kept is 32 ounces. Just 4 shy of what a fully adult rooster should weigh.

 

[pennyJo1960]

sure can tell when the weather is nice here in weatern washington.cuz NO ONE is on BYC !!

Funnies :

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spelling not you long suite

A man and his dog went to the movies. All through the movie the dog was laughing. After the movie, a woman came up to the man and said, "I can't believe your dog was laughing during the movie," and the man replied, "I can't either — he hated the book!"

Why did Noah kick the chickens off the ark? Foul language!

here is one for @Hinotori 's punny collection :

Why did the tree have to go to the principal's office? Because it was a "knotty" pine!

A man got on a bus with both of his front pockets full of golf balls and sat down next to a blonde. The puzzled blonde kept looking at him and his bulging pockets. Finally, after many such glances from her, he said, "It's golf balls." Nevertheless, the blonde continued to look at him for a very long time, thinking about what he had said. After several minutes, not being able to contain her curiosity any longer, she asked, "Does it hurt as much as tennis elbow?"

A guy goes into a bar and sees a sign that reads, "Lawyers are slime-balls." The guy says to the bartender, "Hey, I'm offended! Take that sign down." The bartender asks, "Are you a lawyer?" The man spits on the floor. "No, I'm an a slime-ball!"

more later !

 

[pennyJo1960]

Does anyone local to me have Mille Fleur chicks or eggs? I have a friend who is looking for some.

nope busy taking small boys to the auction today

 

[pennyJo1960]

okay complaining to BF about all my green egg layers almost outnumber
the brown he said that green makes good green eggs and ham