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[Chicken Rustler]

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Yup I learnt how to do it from Mr. Ron. Since he has been around way longer than me.

The Mr. Ron that CR is talking about is my GRANDFATHER

they grew up together

Geez aint it about yer nap tyme young feller.

 

[broodytood]

Well, we have a broker that wants to show our house to a client.
How the heck do I keep a small house with 6 kids in it clean until they come to look???
I think I need to buy stock in duct tape!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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[Ogress]

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That works!

Where are you moving to? You just put in all those chicken coops and that wonderful garden!

 

[RustyHen]

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For me the best I can describe the pain in my hips is like having a very large severe bruise on my hip joints. So as I try to lay on my sides, I feel like I am laying all my weight on the bruised area. Of course it's not bruised, and it shouldn't hurt. I have very large hip joints, so exercising doesn't help much for me. It seems that as the bursa enlarges that it puts pressure on the joint. So by stretching out the joint it makes more room for the bursa. I just don't know why the bursa swells in the first place. I could manage the enlarge bursa, if sleeping on my stomach didn't create inflammation in my lower spine. The anti inflammatories make the difference between being able lay in bed and actually sleep. I am not fond of anti inflammatories, because of the side effects. But I am unwilling to give up on being able to sleep. It doesn't help that both of my shoulder hurt too. But they are more tolerable.
The other place that the bursitis causes me trouble is getting in and out of the car. I drive a Volvo wagon, and I seem to seize up while sitting in the car. So getting out is not fun. It takes me a bit to get going again. I also seem to cuss just about every time. The Fibro causes my legs to be very tender. It feels like bruises being touched hard whenever anything presses on the leg. Most often it will be one of the little dogs that is trying get close to me. Even the 5lb dog to too much weight.

You mention clicking and being able to feel the ball of the joint rubbing. That is way beyond just bursitis. I find that most doctors don't seem to know what causes bursitis, and there is very little treatment for it.

I knew about the thyroid, but if one's blood test come back reading in the range of normal, then it doesn't matter that a nuclear scan that came back abnormal matters.

I read this before 5am, when I'd been awake for more than an hour and wouldn't be back to sleep for another hour and a half, because my hips hurt and I was awakened by every bit of scar tissue on my lower legs feeling as if it were on fire; don't know if it's fibro, because it's associated, always, with spiking blood glucose. So: possibly incoherant, sorry.

Anyway, bursitis of the hips in my case is mostly felt as a crescent of pain right above the hip socket. It is worsened by walking on concrete, sitting in cars (my husband's ortho says that the driving position in most modern sedans is bad, bad, double bad and wrong for anyone with lower back, hip, or knee problems because it leaves the legs unsupported from the upper leg outward), sitting at all. It makes it impossible to lift my feet much when I walk, which means I catch my toes a lot and fall often. Catching my toes on uneven ground (and I am the lord and lady of uneven ground, see: cows, sandy soil, moles) also makes my hips hurt. It makes me walk slowly, trying to avid more pain; it also makes me use a shopping cart every time I get a chance, so I can balance upright (the obnoxious git who diagnosed me by putting his thumb on the protruding bursa and pushing said large-breasted women are more prone to bursitis in general) without putting as much strain on my lower back. I titrate my shopping over the entire weekend. I lay down with my feet up when I hurt.

And about three nights out of seven I am awake in the middle of the night in too much pain to sleep, which gives my anxiety disorder a chance to rip and makes me long for an off switch.

Doing some yoga postures, like downward dog, and also pelvic tilts, helps a little.

Some of your discription sounds like fibro. I have had it for nearly 20 yrs. the severity of mine comes and goes, if I eat something that
I should not like (corn) the inflamation will skyrocket for a while.

 

[RonB]

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What did you eat for breakfast? !!!

breakfast? who me?? when ya leave for work at midnight ya DON'T eat breakfast ! But when I get home, Me and the Dog have our usual. Reduced Fat SuperChunk Skippy peanutbutter on Sour dough toast then we take our nap

well the sandwhich is gone............... I think your right CR its nap time..... what about you ? it must be getting close to your nap time too. you've probably been up FIVE hours already

don't forget to drink your WARM milk

Bye all

 

[RustyHen]

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[Chicken Rustler]

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What did you eat for breakfast? !!!

breakfast? who me?? when ya leave for work at midnight ya DON'T eat breakfast ! But when I get home, Me and the Dog have our usual. Reduced Fat SuperChunk Skippy peanutbutter on Sour dough toast then we take our nap

well the sandwhich is gone............... I think your right CR its nap time..... what about you ? it must be getting close to your nap time too. you've probably been up FIVE hours already

don't forget to drink your WARM milk

Bye all

Well yes I have been up since 2:50 AM. People take note here I bet that is a VERY fresh loaf of bread. Mr. Ron is sharing with his furry family member. He probably baked that bread last night.

 

[broodytood]

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That works!

Where are you moving to? You just put in all those chicken coops and that wonderful garden!

It would be a 2800sqft, 5 bdrm/3bth a bit farther out into the country with 10 1/2 acres to boot. Right now we are in 1700sqft, 3bdrm/2bth.
I could have a ton more chickens and some cows!!! I would have to make a new garden but the coops are moveable if we choose to. We have been watching this house for over 5 years. We have friends that live next door on 30 acres that have 10 horses and are ex 4H leaders. I'm trying not to get my hopes up.

 

[justbugged]

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This sounds like a good idea. Do the chickens need to be trained or do they figure it out on their own???

They may need a little assisting at first but when one finds it they all will follow. It should take less than day, all of mine found it in a couple of hours. Even though I have been using water nipples for almost 2 years when I medicate I use a plastic 1 gallon waterer and they act like they are dying of thirst.

I've had day old chicks that are pro's at using n water nipple within less an hour. They must be able to smell the water and are curious enough to peck at the nipple.