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[Chicken Rustler]

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No becuase I would have to stop to write it down and that is not always easy in mid cut.

ETA and I can't spell that is why I have to come back and edit posts

 

[Illia]

Hey hey, at least you guys don't have two roosters sleeping in your bedroom tonight.

Last night my mom's new Boerboel puppies got loose from their outdoor play area and mauled my Tolbunt cockerels. I mean mauled them! First it was the frizzle, and lord I thought he was dead! He was pinned down by both puppies and being shred up by them. I was VERY upset. . . Then while getting him into safety and pulling the pups off, they ran right over to my smooth and started tearing his feathers out, pinning him down, mouthing at him. . . Ugh!

. . . So now, I've been housing my two beloved boys inside at nighttime since then. The pups get let out around midnight and are outside until morning - There's no way I'm trusting them around my boys when I'm asleep.


So, I'm going to be woken up at 3AM, then 5AM, then 6AM by two boys loudly crowing.

And I'd rather that happen than lose them. . . My Polish girls are just now starting to lay again, so at least I'm getting fertile Tolbunt eggs (SO excited) but that doesn't mean I can afford losing the boys so soon, even one, I can't lose.

 

[snapkrackelpop19]

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Awwh poor guys

Glad they're okay though!

 

[justbugged]

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More like mid wife.

Well I figured surrogate cuz T "had" the eggs, but I hatched the baby...so kinda like I was artificially enseminated by a duck!!!!!!!!

Now that sounds just a little pervy if you ask me.

 

[hallerlake]

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We met with the oncologist this afternoon. Mother is in stage two pancreatic cancer; advanced localized. She's not a candidate for treatment even if she wanted it, which she doesn't. I'm not sure she realized that pain management was the only alternative to chemo, radiation, and surgery.

oh my, how long does she have and can she come home ?
Talk to the nurses there (the RNs) and ask what her options are at home, with a caregiver, and call Hospice, they work wonders with the dying, and can provide every comfort possible so she can be at home in her own bed with her family instead of a strange place...it would probably (I am willing to bet) be exactly what she wants.
Hospice should be listed in the phone book, if not, the head RN should provide it for your area.
They only deal with this very sort of thing, AIDES patients in advanced stage of disease, terminal cancer patients.
They have experienced compassionate and straight to the point caregivers.

We talked to the hospice nurse. The oncologist danced around the issue of how long. All he would say is months, not how many.

 

[justbugged]

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No becuase I would have to stop to write it down and that is not always easy in mid cut.

ETA and I can't spell that is why I have to come back and edit posts

I know how stuff like this works. I hate it when someone gives me a card with an appointment date on it. I am always fairly certain that I will loose the card any way so
I am still going to for get the appointment until at least an hour past the right time to have been there. Sometimes I wonder if a voice recorder would help. But then I would have to remember to not loose it. I am fairly sure that the recorder would never be were I would need it to be,

 

[hallerlake]

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The airstream?

was not you that had an airstream trailer ?

No.

 

[Ogress]

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They kept going back and forth with the due date for Olivia too. Due to all the surgeries cerclages I had to keep Olivia in, they could not let me go into labor. Usually with a cerclage they take it out a few weeks before the due date, but it was the only thing holding DD in. I had to stay on terbutaline from 27 weeks on to stop the contractions for risk of tearing, and they scheduled the C-section for 3 weeks before the due date - after she was born, they did an exam, and said she appeared to be more like 35 weeks, which is right where I thought it was from the start!

One thing to ask your Dr. about is numbness around the incision; in some people, the numbness never goes away. from my experience, I think it has to do with the incision location rather than different people. My first C-section, feeling took 6 months to fully return. My second, the incision was made higher (I don't know why - I suspect because time #1 was an emergency C-section with baby was stuck in birth canal and in distress). Feeling has never returned after #2 and I have no feeling from just below my navel down to a couple inches below the incision. It's a real bummer, but it was my trade-off for a healthy baby.

I didn't have a C-section with my DD, but I wound up with some nerve damage from the epedural. The first two times they tried the epidural on me, they only blocked the right side, the third go-round they finally blocked both sides, but since then Ive hardly had any feeling in my right thigh, from my hip to about 4" from my knee... And when I do have some sensation, all I am able to feel is pins and needles. And Ive been like this for two and a half years now. Doubt I will ever go back to normal. At least it doesnt mess with my mobility, just sensation...

Edited - I deleted my post because I felt I left TMI.

 

[justbugged]

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I culled one chick by putting it in a plastic container and put it in the freezer. The next day I then disposed of the body. I also use this method with fish.

 

[Ogress]

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LOL! I Love it!

It was me; I have SCUBA tanks! Had I known you'd be at Monroe, I would have brought them! DH and I have a lot of weight to lose before we ever do that again!