Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[SeattleSelkie]

This 9 month old Ameraucana cockerel is a bit jinxed. He has had three homes lined up, but all have fallen through......no fault of his own.
I would prefer to find him a home rather than the freezer, but his time is getting short. He is in one of my grow-out pens and I need it soon.
If anyone is interested in him, please message me.

He comes directly from Paul Smith in Texas, so good stock. He is a mild-mannered bird........so much so that that his flock mates keep his muff/beard plucked for him......it is finally starting to grow out now that he is in his own house. He would be a nice 4-H bird for an older youth.

 

[Leigti]

Well I found someway that I can eat cooked cauliflower. It works well in stir fry. That covers the flavor of it enough.

I like raw cauliflower, but the cooked flavor is just blech to me.

I feel that way about a lot of vegetables. Cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, spinach. I like them raw but not cooked.

 

[Leigti]

This 9 month old Ameraucana cockerel is a bit jinxed. He has had three homes lined up, but all have fallen through......no fault of his own. I would prefer to find him a home rather than the freezer, but his time is getting short. He is in one of my grow-out pens and I need it soon. If anyone is interested in him, please message me. He comes directly from Paul Smith in Texas, so good stock. He is a mild-mannered bird........so much so that that his flock mates keep his muff/beard plucked for him......it is finally starting to grow out now that he is in his own house. He would be a nice 4-H bird for an older youth.

He is gorgeous. I really hope he finds a home. Maybe contact the local 4H groups? I don't know. There's always craigslist. I swear if I had about 100 acres I would probably have 1000 roosters. They are so pretty. My grandma loved roosters. I never quite understood why, but now I do.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Quote: When I cook any of them it is a light steaming is all.. Mushy vegetables are icky

 

[Chickielady]

So Do I need more wholes in my burlap bags I made?

If it doesn't drain, pop holes with an old garden knife

 

[Chickielady]

I had my abdominal ultrasound this morning and it seems I have an enlarged fatty liver and a gallstone. I will have to completely change my eating habits, even though it is hereditary and not caused by diet, in order to try to reverse the damage. I suspect that the ibuprofen I took in order to walk on a shredded tendon and heel spur may have tipped me over the edge when it comes to having liver damage because my doctor warned me that it could damage my liver. I have been off ibuprofen and acetaminophen the past couple weeks already since I am doing a paid arthritis drug study. Now I need to change my eating habits and get more exercise to lose weight.

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!!!

)
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 !

 

[Chickielady]

Yes, and Wednesday I have surgery and a biopsy to determine if I have uterine cancer. I am 47 and my body is falling apart already!

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 !

 

[Chickielady]

Sings ♫ ♪ "Don't it make my brown eggs blue" ♪ ♫





Why yes after THAT bad pun went through my head I had to listen to some Crystal Gayle

I just put a set exactly like that, 13 eggs, in a nest & shoved a broody Beilefelder st them...and she took the bait............and I kept thinking about how your silkie shoves the blue eggs out of her nest..

 

[Chickielady]

One time I had a crazy woman come over to buy chicks. When she got here she changed her story and she said she only wanted one to be a pet for her kids. (The kids were very cute, by the way, but their mom was a nut job). Then she asked how big they would get, so I brought a 4 week old chick out from the other brooder. The woman just about ran out of the house, terrified of this huge monster of a bird. I sent them packing with no birds. Good thing since apparently I can't sell chicks as pets. LOL As she left she was asking to get the phone number of my friends that raise silkies. I told her to get a gerbil or a stuffed animal.

I had a dingbat come to buy some Lemon Blue Cochins I had for sale...you'all know how big they get !

She was very blond, and very buxom, and very dailty...and as she put the crates into her car she turned to me and said "Hopefully the entire family does not get lice from them again ! My husband will kill me ! Everytime we get chickens, the whole family gets lice !"

and she drove away.
WOW..what a wingnut!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

I had a random person show up (barefoot in the pouring rain) and ask if I had any chickens, chicks, or bunnies for sale. I said no. She then tried to use a "I don't have any pets right now" sob story. When I was clearly not going to agree to giving her a live animal, she asked if I had any eggs for sale. I said yes, they cost $4 a dozen. She said she had no money and turned around and walk away. What the hell. Not even $4 to your name, and you want to take on the responsibility of a live animal? SMH.

Sounds to me like maybe she was scoping you out...see what you got...like maybe they could come back when you weren't around & help themselves.

I had a few nutjobs show up when I was selling saddle horses years ago....they of course wanted to test drive them, and none could ride even though they said they could, and everyone was launched.
All they were after was a free "horsie ride" and this on my green broke 2 & 3 yr old..............

Horses aren't stupid, they can tell you don't know what you are doing, and quite a few will take advantage of this.