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[justbugged]

That is Puppy he is a Komondor. Once his hair is in full dread locks it will not shed. My guess is this breed of dog is as old if not older than the poodle breed. He doesn't know he is a big dog. The Yorkies take advantage of that, and will torment the big dog. He is like a seven year old boy that everyone can torment and make cry. All the other dogs pick up on it, and will try to make him cry. It drives me a little crazy.

 

[justbugged]

Here is a picture of him at our daughters wedding 2 years ago.

 

[justbugged]

As to the question what do the doctors say I have; They keep saying FM. It doesn't really explain everything that is going on, but lumps things into a neat package. Someone else mentioned that FM drugs don't help. I agree. I try them because the doctors won't allow any narcotics unless I try them. I do rather well on narcotics, but the last round of FM drugs was not good at all. I was confused and messed up for a long time. I am still not certain I have got over all of the affects of that drug. At least with pain killers the effect is very short term, and doesn't take away months of your life. The past weekend was hard. It took way to much medication to keep the pain to a level that was slightly functional. I hate it when I get forced into things I know will be over my head with the stress and demands that others will make of me. Everyone always goes on about how addicting narcotics are, but on a number of occasion I had had to go cold turkey, and I have never had any problems with that. The drug I consider the most addictive is Nexium. I have been known to cry if I run out of it. I don't like to be high from a drug, but comfortable and or functional is a true favorite for me.

My roll in the family has always been to do the utility type of work. Like cooking, cleaning, and taking care of mentally ill people. (My dad brought home a woman from church that was a frequent visitor of Western State Hospital. She had more issues than I had education at the age of 17.) So somehow this role follows me through life. I am finding that I can not handle the demands anymore, and resent being placed or forced into the role. I try to remind myself that most of this is life conditioning, and not what I am being asked to do. It is simply unfortunate that my son has married a girl that is so much like me, and who has a very bad form of MS. If the kids lived nearer her family, they would be helping out a lot more than they can. To give them credit the people at the church do help the kids out quite often. They will provide meals on days she has gone in to have infusions of medications.

It just makes me a little crazy that they can make me feel like I have to help them for my own good. I thought that by my age I would be smart enough to know what works and what doesn't. I am also a bit peeved that I keep being talked about behind my back, and I keep sensing that the general consensus is that I am just attention seeking. I would really rather not have anyone pay attention to me than get attention like this. I am smart enough to think of other ways to get attention.

 

[justbugged]

So Chickie I wonder what it was that you did to your parents that was so bad that makes them still so hostile toward you? (Maybe it was the teeth?) I have been asking the same question all spring and summer for myself. The comments that they make can only be described as hostile. I don't think that they (parents) even have a clue as to how it comes across. Maybe it's just a parent thing, but I sure can't think of what it take for me to say things like that about my children. I am also aware that these same people do not make the same type of comments about their other children. Or maybe I just don't hear them made. I am working on this concept. It is nice to know that I am not the only one out there that has had similar experiences.

I am going to have to find something else to do. It is hard to think about such dark things while sitting in a sun beam, and listening to several types of birds chattering away. My chickie girls are complaining because they want out, but the puppies are out with me, and chasing will occur if they are together for to long. The little finches are talking about what ever it is that they talk about, and I think I can hear a wild bird or two. I wonder where Larry the wonder hummingbird is? Larry is scary. He has tried to kill me in the past. He can't, but I know he wants too.

 

[Chickielady]

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Boy I agree with you !
And I hope you get better.
I am so glad I am here by myself, no attention seeking for me.
I never heard Nexium was addictive !
Hope you are better !

And hope you find a caring an compassionate doc that can diagnose you properly, they are out there.

 

[justbugged]

I have found compassionate and caring doctors, but with the medical records they don't seem to want to look any farther. It is easier to say that this is all FM, and it could be. I also tend to irritate people by being in the room, or by not responding to the treatment that they are selling. I am working on the room thing, by not being in the room.

 

[Chickielady]

All of you really should google up "Komondor" dogs and read wikipedia and other sites about this ancient breed...very beautiful, very rare.
I looked for one here, and found none.
I also Love the Puli, a much smaller version.
Why do you keep him sheared and brushed, easier to care for when wet ?
All corded, they are fantastic looking dogs, ancient ancient herding dogs.
I am OK, sick but will suvive.
If a celiac continues to eat wheat...they can greatly increase the chances of lymphoma.
I do not know why my parents make fun of me.
My ex sister in law has been full non functioning FM since she had a horrible car accident.
Doctors say trauma to the body activates these auto immune responses that were barely 'sleeping' before.
I know my entire family thinks the ex sister in law was nothing more than faking it so she could lie around and not have to work.
I assume they say it about me, too.
I do not think they realize what is happening.
They hate martyrs, and if you have pain why can't you take a stupid pill and get on with your life like eveyone else ?
It is awful that they do not listen, and they do not believe, seriously when we are already in horrible 24/7 pain.
I skipped Mother's Day this year due to accidental injestion of wheat and was sick 3 weeks.
What gets people is the fact that there is so many disease I have.
Raynaud's syndrom, Livido reticularis, Hashimotos thyroiditis, celiac intestinal disease and maybe atkinson's adrenalitis.
But is not all the disease, it is only 1 disease:
Auto immune disorder.
The immunal system is swimming around in there and can attack anything it wants to for all reasons of it's own !
Look at all the hundreds of people that have these auto immune diseases, for example, Patrick Swayze just died of Atkinson's I believe.
JFK had a handdful of lovely AID's including Celiac disease.
Someday I believe the scientist's will find the cause of FM.
T, colitis is awful.
I thought that was my problem for so long !
Have to eat just right or all disease breaks out~
Here is what happened to me this time:
Made a big 2# ground beef taco seasoning, YUM...and got corn tortillas like always and had a taco feed...guacamole, hot sauce lettuce tomatoe, sour cream, are you seeing this yet?
I fried the tortillas, and made alot cuz DH gorges on tacos and we had enough to have dinner the next night.
So, taco feed lunch, next day dinner, enough left overs make chili rellanos and had the remnents the 3rd day.
By then my gut was aching, but I gave it no mind as I knew I had not eaten any wheat.
So we are on day 5 or 6 now, and this pain and lethargy will go on at least 3 weeks from the first day of injestion.
I found the taco bag in the fridge and read: wheat
I have never seen corn torts have wheat.
Boy do I feel stupid for not reading the label this time.
I have never bought this brand before, and I always always read labels.
They say recipes can change even on brands you have always used.
Try more vitamin D for FM.
Read up on Gluten.
There is major amounts of documentation on wheat restricted diets to peoples with GM siezers, mentally insane, and hyper active and autistic children, with fantastic results.
I do not believe we have evolved far from the hunter-gatherers that we were, and I believe very strongly that we should eat what our (personal) ancestors ate, and eat what was in season at the time, not alot of different things on 1 plate. Which means I shoulda had haggus and then this taco sickness never would have happened !

Better stop with the disease forum here.
To continue, what did you think of my 2 pullets and the one's tail ?
They are all being very good today since I am inside sick today.

 

[Chickielady]

Nexium crack ???
I thought it was supposed to be "the healing pill" or am I thinking of something else.
I do Darvocet, and only when the tendonitis or other pain is out of control.
Seriously get the Atkins book to refer for recipes, and go to the library and check out a copy of "The Gluten Free Girl" and read it while having coffee in the sun...then creat a diet for you.
All your problems could stop just by changing your diet like T-Hi said.
Your body goes to great lengths to try and tell you something is wrong.
See if you can hear what it is saying: maybe just tomatoes!
Maybe dairy or wheat. Could be your shampoo !
Wheat germ oil and honey hand lotion gives me a horrible rash.
Big blisters called "Dermititis Herpetiformis" which look like giant cold sores but are not herpes...
I have to carry a EpiPen auto-injector around with me. My docs are sure I could have ahnaphylactic shock one day from who knows what.
You can always surf Shauna's (Gluten Free Girl's)web site of the same name as her book.
I do not think her 'story' is there though, about how she was so sick for so long and did not know what is was.
I did the same thing as she did, when sick I went right for the Cream of mushroom soup, ritz or soda crackers and big crusty-rustic bread I used to make, the best bread recipe on earth,( I should post it here)
I now make wheat free bread and it is not as good, but the chickens still like it.
The sicker I got, the "healthier" I ate, Kashi (yum!) whole wheat everything !
I got sicker.
You study up on it and I am off to take a nap.
You take a nap too, I said you could !!!!

 

[TurtleChick]

so i've been running around trying to find day old baby peeps for my broodies - make sure i have plenty of babies to go around, get to watch moms raise babies, have happy not broody peeps.

today i went out to check on my broodies (day 19 of sitting on these eggs) and found a dead chick.

i posted about it in "incubating and hatching".

it's days like this, when i want to yell: "SERIOUSLY? can one thing not just go the way it's SUPPOSED to???????" that i want to throw myself on the floor and have a good old fashioned tantrum.

i'm so bummed.

 

[Jessica Rabbit]

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/1979-01-01/Free-Chickens.aspx


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