Coffee

[ducks4you]

I’ve had my coffee, waiting on daylight so I can get the day started. Yesterday I slaughtered 14 chickens and processed them. They are enjoying freezer camp. I started at 9 AM, walked out of the kitchen at 10 PM. I took time out to do evening chores and a wine break last night, only had 4 more to process, but was so tired and sore. LOL
This morning I’m borrowing a neighbor’s truck to go get a 1,000 pound super bag of feed. I’ll bail it into 5 gallon buckets and dump in the metal trash cans that keep the rats and mice out.

I have always wondered about sports at freezer camp...

 

[ducks4you]

Oh, its cancer. It will turn into melanoma, if we don't fight it right now. Choroid placement, all the way in the back. Its too small depth wise to biopsy it. She said that her something probe is 1.25 mm and the tumor is 0.80 mm in depth. So the chance of grabbing a piece of it is slim to nothing.

Its rare, with it occuring one in a million humans. Shoulda bought a lottery ticket with those odds!!

 

[ducks4you]

My husband has eye cancer. Inside. Its grown over the last 1.5 years. We went to OHSU a teaching and research hospital in Portland OR. He has four options:
1. Remove the eye as a preventative measure against ocular melanoma. NOPE
2. The tumor is leaking fluid on each of the long sides. Get eyeball shots with a med to dry that fluid up, so she can look at it more closely in three months. Will decrease his vision some.
3. Put a bottle cap stitched to the eye with radiation beads in the cap. Radiate the tumor for a week. Will decrease vision alot, but hopefully tumor shrinks. Lots of vision loss. NOPE
4. Use a laser blah blah, but its experimental and not in full tests yet. NOPE.

Hubs chose #2. His first eye shot is at the end of the month. I don't remember if they are weekly, or what. It was a whole bunch to listen to and she talked fast.

So fast that hubs told son that they will be putting a needle in his eye to withdraw the water. I softly corrected him. We go back in July to see how the tumor looks. Obviously he'll be part of this Doc's research since he's got a Bum Luck diagnosis.

edited to add> its a one in one million chance of this ocular cancer. Doc is the one that called it Bum Luck.

My dog, EVA might have nasal cancer. I am shopping around for an affordable CTScan, so that we will know, BUT, my Vet experimentally used those chemotherapy beads on Pyg--held the foot cancer off for one year--and aggressively used them on her dog's face cancer, and that helped to cure him.
SHE read about it bring used in human subjects and I have a lot of confidence in them.
STILL praying for him!!!

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Sending healing prayers to you Rhodie Ranch.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Ducks4you.. your dog might have nasal cancer yikes… sending prayers to you

 

[Marie2020]

My dog, EVA might have nasal cancer. I am shopping around for an affordable CTScan, so that we will know, BUT, my Vet experimentally used those chemotherapy beads on Pyg--held the foot cancer off for one year--and aggressively used them on her dog's face cancer, and that helped to cure him.
SHE read about it bring used in human subjects and I have a lot of confidence in them.
STILL praying for him!!!

Fingers crossed he will take to the treatment

 

[Marie2020]

Fingers crossed he will take to the treatment

@ducks4you
Fenbendazole and ivermectin. I don't know if I spelled the latter correctly.

Both these wormers have been used as part treatments for some cancers, in both dogs and humans.

One study used Tumeric and vitamin C with the fenbendazole another study used alongside a form of asprin or similar with the ivermectin. And if I remember correctly the chemotherapy as well

I've read the studies on these. But I can't remember if both has been used in conjunction with chemotherapy.

What I do remember is the Ivermectin; while being used for worming by a farmer for his cattle, during in the 70's accidentally discovered this as a potential aid somehow.
I found that fascinating

I hope you will look this up. I would hate to give you false hope

And I to am praying for both you and your dog to find a way through this.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Ivermectin is a very commonly used wormer, suitable for horses, cattle, sheep, birds, and a wide range of small mammals. It is used occasionally in dogs but never in collies and other herding breeds.

So why not used in collie breeds?
All mammals, including dogs, have a special membrane surrounding the brain, called the Blood Brain Barrier. It works to prevent nasty chemicals getting into our brains and causing problems with the sensitive nerve cells there.

But there’s something unusual about the blood brain barrier in collies. There is a particular genetic mutation, called MDR1, that means the barrier doesn’t work properly, and allows certain types of chemicals through. One of these types is the macrocyclic lactones in ivermectin.

It estimated that as many as 75% of collies and other herding breeds have that genetic mutation . And a wide range of other dogs also have high incidence of this mutant gene – in fact my vet advises against the use of ivermectin in any herding-type dog. It’s always used in rotation in my horses but never my shelties, border collies or collies. The only breed I have rescued from collies centers for years.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

I have always had herding breeds, and didn't know this. Thank you so very much!!

 

[digitS']

Grilled cheese and a banana for a 2nd breakfast. I miss my tomato soup!

BTW. I mentioned using mayonnaise on both sides of the bread making a grilled sandwich on TEG some time ago. I no longer use mayonnaise on the cooking side — too salty. (Is there a low-salt mayonnaise ? )

Ya know, with some ice cream with this banana and the grilled cheese ... I could be back on a stool at a lunch counter somewhere .