SSDreamin Blessings and curses

[SSDreamin]

Thanks Pink! I'll check for it at the farm store! Gotta do something - the buff's are actually pecking each others feathers off right now :/

Put the cows halter back on, eventually. She kept bobbing her head, to avoid it, and hit the electric fence - then, since she thought the halter had zapped her, she ran away from me every time I tried to catch her Finally, she decided to hide in her hutch, cuz I'd NEVER find her there and I managed to get it on her - upside down, so I had to take it off and fight her again to put it on right That wore me out. I should really take a nap

 

[luvinlife offthegrid]

I am also having picking problems. I have several feeding stations in the run. Everybody has plenty of protein, etc. I never see anyone else picking on these two leghorns. Well, once in a great while, but not enough to justify the feather loss. And the feathers are broken off like its rooster damage, but we don't have a rooster. I'll try this stuff pink mentioned too.

 

[SSDreamin]

OK, so, I almost died Thursday morning. Maybe I'm being a little melodramatic, but I'm real sure I was pretty close. Called my Dr's office. They wanted me to find somebody to take me to ER. Only 'somebody' around was my 12 yr old son, besides which it would be pointless - they would give me a transfusion and send me home. I was taking iron + vit. C, and drinking a bunch of liquids, so didn't see the point. The nurse gave my son strict instructions, which freaked him out a bit, but he followed them to the letter. Even made me carry around his 2-way radio, for those times I was 'indisposed' DH came home early, to help out and because he was totally spazzing, being so far away. So, the guys are doing most of my chores, my sweet little girl is VERY mad at me (she refuses to come out of her hutch, even for her hay, because 'mom' isn't paying attention to her ), and my crazy dog is being extra weird. Thursday night, for the first time ever in his life, he took two steps into my room - after I had gone to bed - and slept there all night! If I turned over, he woke up, sniffed the air (he sniffs quite loudly!), then went back to sleep. Wouldn't have been so bad, but he has 'adventure's' while he sleeps and makes a bit of a racket!

Garden is doing well. Herbs are growing like mad. Orchard is struggling a bit, but will hopefully make it. Berry bushes are all looking rather sad, no berries and a lot of dead leaves :/ DH went and picked up 4 more BA's today. That make's 7 BA's total, plus 6 Buff's and the rooster. So far, I adore the BA's! The 3 first one's we got are so sweet - they will eat right out of your hand and are so calm and gentle! Having trouble finding a BA rooster, or a Banty hen locally, so we are thinking we'll order those, plus a few meaties, in the fall. Hoping to hear back from the farm across the state soon, to tentatively schedule a time to take Ice Cream over, and a time to pick up 'Beauregard' DH is probably right - I should wait until I see him before I name him, in case something else suits him better, but for now that's his name

Hope everybody is having a great weekend! We are having another heatwave. It was 98 yesterday (still had roast chicken breasts w/ roasted potatoes for dinner: Only brought the inside temps up to 83, so yay!), with the same or worse expected for today and tomorrow. I keep reminding myself that I was begging for temps like these in February!

 

[Denim Deb]

Glad you're OK. That must have been scary.

 

[lazyday]

So glad to hear you are doing better. Sound like a scary night. Prayer's heading in your direction.

 

[SSDreamin]

Strange thing was, I wasn't scared until much, much later! When I 'woke up' I didn't even realize there was a HUGE problem, I just knew things weren't 'right'. :/ Once I figured out there was a problem, I stumbled around, trying to square things away. Then, I actually tried to start my morning routine and tend to the animals - I figured they'd all be upset because I didn't get up at my usual time. When I couldn't walk a straight line to the door and had a lot of trouble concentrating on what I was supposed to be doing, I decided it was time to call the Dr. That Dr's nurse is fantastic - very patient, kind and after she figured out that I stubbornly refused to go to the stupid hospital, she worked out a plan to help. It wasn't until I went to the hospital for testing yesterday that it really hit me - I almost bought it, I almost scarred my son for life because he would've been the one that found me! Even my dufus dog knew what I refused to admit, for crying out loud!

Still, after all that, Dr says "Sorry, I can't do anything until you get the other problem under control." So. Stinking. Irritating.

 

[pinkfox]

*hugs* hope your feeling better

I must have missed what the issue was?! but either way im glad you avoided the whole death part...

i know the feeling on the er trip...its like realy, come in so i can sit for hours in an uncomfortbale bed only to be told to "get some rest" and "take these things" and "heres your bill for a few THOUSAND dollars"

They tell me i should er all seizures and palpitations...but i know the drill an its useless all i get is a print out of my rythms and a nice big co-pay cause theres nothign they can o about it after the fact and i cant realy drive myself there during LOL.

 

[moolie]

I hope you are feeling better today--sounds like you need to take it totally easy and rest till you are better? I think I missed what's wrong as well, but dizzy etc. sounds like you are doing way too much. Take care of yourself!

 

[SSDreamin]

*hugs* hope your feeling better

I must have missed what the issue was?! but either way im glad you avoided the whole death part...

i know the feeling on the er trip...its like realy, come in so i can sit for hours in an uncomfortbale bed only to be told to "get some rest" and "take these things" and "heres your bill for a few THOUSAND dollars"

They tell me i should er all seizures and palpitations...but i know the drill an its useless all i get is a print out of my rythms and a nice big co-pay cause theres nothign they can o about it after the fact and i cant realy drive myself there during LOL.

Exactly! I would've begged for a ride, or called for an ambulance (and ya know how much they charge for those rides!!), went in, gotten a blood count. They FINALLY come in and tell me what I already know - counts low - give me a transfusion, send me home. I prefer to avoid those transfusions if at all possible, because I still don't believe they are 100% safe. Then, they send me home, at which point I'd have to beg a ride AGAIN. Meanwhile, my son is freaking out at home the whole time :/ Biggest (possible) problem with handling it myself is heart attack or what had already happened - passing out. I was careful, I consider myself not foolish, so I only handled it because I knew I could

 

[SSDreamin]

I hope you are feeling better today--sounds like you need to take it totally easy and rest till you are better? I think I missed what's wrong as well, but dizzy etc. sounds like you are doing way too much. Take care of yourself!

I do 1/4 of what I used to, but that's because I'm just a sickly hippo right now I feel pretty guilty, DH is tending the animals and cooking dinner - on Dad's Day! He promises he doesn't mind, but I just know this will come back to bite me in the backside when I least want it too!