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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Nov 4, 2013 1:06:19 GMT -6
This is it's beak. I never seen one do this before. Attachments:
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Nov 5, 2013 1:57:56 GMT -6
This is the chick that we have been trying to get it's eye cleared up. In the pic it's clean because we just did it about an hour ago. She's been hanging out with me since. What color would this sizzle be? She's about 2 months old so still has more changing to do. Attachments:
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Post by Timbo on Nov 5, 2013 22:00:04 GMT -6
Looks kinda red
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Nov 6, 2013 11:37:20 GMT -6
It's got alot of red in it and it's primaries look like partridge. This is the one that I'm having trouble clearing up it's eye issue. It's so spoiled I have it in a storage tub for a tem brooder and it knows I'm here and it's chirping away. When I go get it, it will shut up and is just content with hanging out with me. It perches on my finger like a parrot. lol I know I have to wait to see how it ends up looking like but I'm anxious to see. I'm hoping I can show it. That lady at the jewelery store would love to have it. She likes the red color and requested a red sizzle. I might have to keep this one. We'll see. I wish I could keep them all. lol
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Nov 6, 2013 11:39:56 GMT -6
The little table it's on Gavin made. The chick has claimed it.
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Nov 6, 2013 22:40:31 GMT -6
What a good kitty. Gavin has his guinea pigs on the bed last night and the cat jumped up there and just laid down. It crawled up under the cat and she just laid there and let it. But she hunts like a wild cat. It's amazing how she knows whats off limist and what she can kill and eat. Attachments:
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Nov 8, 2013 0:06:04 GMT -6
I got bad news today. My brother is back in the hospital with congestive heart failure again. He had a heart attack last week and didn't know it. He's so stubborn, should have gone to the hospital when he was having chest pains. Now he's having trouble breathing because of the fluid around his heart and he is anemic too. Doc says he's missing 1/3 of his blood volume. So......I will be taking a trip to Indiana. I don't know for sure when but I know i'll be going. He don't know I know whats going on because he tells his wife not to tell me anything til they nkow what the doc plans to do but she calls me anyway and keeps me updated. I just act surprised when I hear from him.
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Post by Timbo on Nov 8, 2013 22:35:35 GMT -6
Hope he's better soon
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Nov 9, 2013 11:17:46 GMT -6
Yesterdays update wasn't any better. They are now giving him insulin. Our mother was diabetic and it seems now he is too along with all his other problems. They are afraid to do an angiogram because he's on blood thinners. They're giving him a shot in his stomach everyday for another blood thinner. They suspect he's bleeding inside somewhere but they can't even do a scope of his stomach because it will stress out his heart. He don't have that sac that is normally around everybody's heart. It was removed when he was 6. He was given a shot for pneumonia because of that because his lungs are at risk of getting the fluid in them. I don't know how the fluid is just around his heart with the paricardium (sp?) gone. His kidneys still aren't working well either and they cna't push liquids to make them work because he already has too much fluid in him. The kidney doc can't do anything till the heart doc figures out something. Right now they are just pumping him with meds hoping something works withouu having to cut him. He bled out when he had his heart surgery a couple years ago that was the first time he died on the table. With is record of not having a smooth surgery they are afraid to cut him open. At this point they can't because he will bleed to death before they can get in to do anything. It's just a mess. I want to hop on a train and go there right now but he's still at the point where he don't want me to know anything. He is so stubborn. If I where to just pop up as a surprise visit it might stress him out and he can't have any stress. They did find out he had 2 heart attacks in the past week before he went into the hospital.
On another note, Bobby got a deer this morning. We've been watching their patterns with a game came and a big buck has been coming thru around 8 am almost everyday and there is, or was a spike too. Bobby waited for the big one to come thru but when he didn't show up on schedule and the spike did he got that one instead. He managed to let some nice does pass by without shooting them in wait for the big one. He and Gavin are our cutting it up. When their done I'll clean and soak it then grind up the meat. We'll have deer for supper tonight. The back strap always gets frozen in sections portioned for meals. We have got to get a deep freezer. I filled both of ours up with stuff from the garden. I canned a bunch of green beans, lima beans and black eyed peas. We have a BUNCH of okra and corn. The guys are going out again this afternoon to hopefully get another deer. We have lots of does that frequent the garden Bobby planted just for them and he puts out feed. That way we know they are fed and healthy. He spent all summer cutting limbs and clearing views to all the stands and putting out feed to make them healthy. No scrawny deer here for sure.
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Nov 9, 2013 11:19:25 GMT -6
Here he is Attachments:
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Nov 9, 2013 11:23:22 GMT -6
Here is it's head to show the spikes Attachments:
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Nov 9, 2013 18:51:09 GMT -6
Well the update on my brother isn't very good. First off he had a bad night last night and they aren't sure but he may have had another heart attack or he was just having trouble breathing due to the fluid. They are going to do the angiogram. I don't know when but if not tomorrow it will be monday. They can't use much dye because his kidneys aren't working well at all and the dye messes with the kidneys. They think his heart valve may be leaking. If they can put in a stint during the angiogram they will do it but if not he will have to have surgery again. With his heart being so fragile it is even more risky than it was last time year before last. And he didn't do well at all then. So any of you that pray please say one for my brother, please.
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Nov 10, 2013 21:56:04 GMT -6
They did the angiogram today. He was in there for 5 hours. They had some problems which they didn't explain but they found 2 new blockages and put stints in those. The graphs that where put in during his last surgery one was gone and the other was damaged. They did some scraping of something that I couldn't understand. My sister n laws cell was cutting out. not to mention she was very angry because they put him in ICU and wouldn't let her stay with him and he was freaking out. Last time he was in ICU it was a nightmare. They did call in a lung specialist to check and see if he had any blood clots in his lungs. I don't know what happened there because again between her being so angry and the bad cell reception I couldn't understand. I really feel I need to go and help somehow. I just hate being here at this time. I can't do anything to get him better but I could help put somewhere so the everyday life things aren't on my sister n laws back while she is going thru this with my brother. Today is also their middle daughters 24th birthday. She's the disabled one so trying to make her day a good one and dealing with her husbands medical issues. It's a wonder she don't end up in there with a nervous break down.
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Nov 11, 2013 23:11:43 GMT -6
Well, I got a better explaination from my sister n law about my brother. He is don't alot better now. What they did is they went in thru the artery in his arm/shoulder and the one in his groin both on his right side. They found the blockages at the back of his heart and put in stints. They cleaned out some scar tissue and he had 2 graphs that where put in last time that where messed up, one was gone. They did something there to take care of that. She said they did 9 diferent things to him while they where in there. She is getting a copy of the medical record so they can read what all went on in there. They never tell you everything. He is still in ICU which they aren't happy about because the nurses there don't give a diddly squat about the patients. you would think they would be great but they aren't. They are better on the heart floor. Hopefully he will get a room there tomorrow. He is up and walking and feeling alot better. The lung doc has him getting a lesser and lesser amount of oxygen to see where he's at of what he can tolerate. Hopefully he will be able to get off of that and not have to have it at home again. So thats all I know for now. He is suppose to call me tomorrow. Now I have to act like I know nothing because he didn't want his wife to call me so I wouldn't worry. She kept me updated anyway. I just have to play along.
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Nov 14, 2013 0:32:16 GMT -6
The lung scan didn't show anything. His lungs are in such bad shape from years of COPD and infections they couldn't see if he had any blood clots. He is off the oxygen now and no IV's either. The doc put him on cumadin (sp) to break up the blood clot in his let. There is a small one there. I thought it was 2 but it's just 1. They may let him go home tomorrow or friday. He will never be the same though. He is just gonna keep going down hill. His body can't take much more. As stubborn as he is he will push it past it's limits. I know him too well.
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