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Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Hi Fortune, excellent choice of coat - I love it too :T

Hope Miss S Hen enjoys the warmth and starts her recovery soon

Tiily x

gallygirl

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS wrote: »

Hi Fortune, excellent choice of coat - I love it too :T

I have coat envy .

beanielou

gallygirl wrote: »

I have coat envy .

So do I

Fortune_Smiles

I've had absolutely no motivation today. I was hoping to try a new Zumba class (due to start last week but cancelled as they hadn't completed the paperwork for the new teacher). Paperwork still not completed this week so no class again. I'm sure that would have kick started me into action.

So not very much on the MS side:

• called the mortgage company to get the new balance - now in the 75k's rather than the 76k's :j - it's going in the right direction
• an NSD
• a small PAD to the savings
• a large withdrawal from the savings :eek:. Mr F forgot to tell me he had to pay for a professional subscription this month - £186! I haven't had to budget for these before because his old company met the cost. They are essential for his job and we get tax relief on the payments at 40%. I still need to factor them into the budget now though so Mr F has been tasked with finding out the renewal dates and costs for the other two he has
• builder popped by. He's extremely busy at the moment so it doesn't look as though we'll get our gate for a while. I'll put the money we've put by for this back into my signature for the moment.

Miss S Hen is still indoors. She isn't eating her pellets but gobbled up bread soaked with olive oil (in case she's got a tangle of grass in her crop) and probiotic yoghurt with garlic (anti-fungal for the infection). Last day of vet medicine tomorrow. Just a case of waiting then to see what happens. I'll see how she is on Monday but, if she's no better it doesn't bode well I don't think I could put her through an operation - chickens often don't survive the anaesthetic. Poor Miss S.

Fortune x

lulabelle1

Poor little chuck, hope she gets better....

muddywhitechicken

oh no, poor Miss S

fingers crossed that she turns the corner soon

I've never had a chicken with sour crop - it sounds horrible

Dragonrider

Loving your diary, Fortune Smiles, and hope the chick improves.

We've got an under-the-weather dog at the moment, so I think we'll be heading to the vets too.

Dragonrider

Fortune_Smiles

Thank you everyone for your well wishes for Miss S Hen. Sadly, the situation has worsened. I gave Miss S the last of her medicine today and she has worked out what's coming so really struggled. I've been binding her wings with a towel to keep her still so that she doesn't hurt herself. However, she struggled so much today that she must have caught her toe on the towel and she's broken it. I am absolutely mortified.

Back to the vet pronto but he says that they usually just leave broken toes and chicken bones heal really quickly. I'm just upset that I've added to her woes. She has made no improvement since our last visit and has lost a lot of weight. I was hoping the vet would say we needed to put her down because I can't bear the thought of her slowly starving. He said he would usually expect the medicine to have started working by now and, the prognosis is poor if she doesn't start eating soon. He's given me some more anti-fungal but, if she's no better by Monday, I will have to have her put down. I'm OK with this as I believe you have to do the right thing for your pets at the right time - it's just the waiting that's getting to me.

So

• a further £33 spent at the vet - don't begrudge a penny of it
• also went to the dentist to be told that, sooner or later, I will need a root canal filling at a cost of about £500 :eek: I'm going to start saving now
• picked up a form at the dentist for a monthly payment plan - if I pay £11.50 per month it will save me £52 per year plus entitle me to 10% off all other treatments - useful for the filling
• 89p PAD to the savings
• made an egg curry from the meal plan for supper yesterday and there was plenty left over for tonight
• Waitr0$£ delivered. £9 under budget this week but no free items this time

Poor Miss S. I hope the situation resolves itself soon.

Fortune x

Fortune_Smiles

Dragonrider wrote: »

Loving your diary, Fortune Smiles, and hope the chick improves.

We've got an under-the-weather dog at the moment, so I think we'll be heading to the vets too.

Dragonrider

Thank you Dragonrider. I hope things are resolved for your poorly dog soon. I find it easier to make the decision when the time comes because I know I'm doing what's best for them - it's seeing them suffer in the lead up that's hard.

Fortune x

Dragonrider

I know - although I was a complete mess when one of our cats had to be put down, and poor OH had to go into the vets with her by himself. I still feel guilty for that one.
I'm hoping it's something less serious for our dog - there's just a multitude of little things that are niggling at me rather than one big thing.
I hope the decision point comes soon for Miss S Hen, as the not knowing is awful.

Dragonrider