We have had an exhausting week over here at Betsy's. See this cheeky minx? You would never guess that she is recovering from an operation yesterday. Adenoidectomy to be precise. Or for those who have no idea what adenoids are, I like to call them nose tonsils. Useless bits of tonsilly like things that if they are behaving you would never have any reason to know about them. In Liongirls case, they have been harbouring bacteria for about 5 months such that she has been requiring back to back courses of antibiotics, snoring, night waking and being generally less than princess like in her demeanor.
So we spent an epic day at the hospital yesterday (picture amusing a grumpy, woken too early toddler who is hungry and thirsty for about 2 and a half hours in a confined space with less than adequate entertainment- and that was BEFORE the operation).
I took the day off work today to care for her. She has bounced back so amazingly speedily that our day involved op shopping and babycinos. Now we are looking forward to the inner princess appearing and her very dark black under eye circles disappearing.
And, the day before the operation, knowing the week ahead of us, we awoke to discover this.
A sea of feathers under the trampoline, black, white and brown ones. Our three gorgeous girls, all dead, killed by a fox in the night. I am still in a state of disbelief. That there are actually foxes in inner city Brisbane, and that I am probably responsible for not checking that the door was bolted shut properly. We are very thankful that we discovered the poor headless chickens before the kids saw them. Roboboy is sad but not devastated, and Liongirl has no idea. I have had to borrow eggs from the neighbours and the yard is very quiet.
Just a little reminder for everyone to check your chickens and tuck them in, to count your lucky stars if you have healthy children and if you have children that have seen the inside of a hospital be amazed at their ability to just get on with it and not dwell on the difficult bits.
Oh no. A big week at your place. I hope your little one is doing well. She looks pretty good after her operation. And I did not know there were foxes in Brisbane...It wasn't a hungry cat/dog? xx
ReplyDeleteSorry about the loss of your chickens but glad the baby seems to be doing great thats a good thing!
ReplyDeleteoh no so sorry!
ReplyDeleteKids... unbelievable how they recover and am very pleased that your little girl is looking up.
ReplyDeleteNot so good about your chooks though, very sad. Mr SJW and I will build a fort around our future chooks as we have a fox or two roaming these parts too. Will learn our lesson from the Betsy brood. gxo
I wasn't aware there were foxes here either! Poor chooks.
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear Liongirl has made a speedy recovery. We went through the tonsil business a couple of years ago,it made such a difference.
So glad Liongirl is on the mend. Farmgirl had her tonsils out last year and it was the best thing we ever did.
ReplyDeleteSorry about your chickens. So many foxes here that I don't even name ours anymore.... We have lost them during the day before so tend to keep them in quite large runs with a wire roof and the edges well buried.
Oh the poor chickies I hope that fox gets caught soon before he feeds on moe.We lost sons a few years back to the neighbours dog so sad.
ReplyDeleteMy grandson Master 6 has had same problems and your little miss too and is off to his ear nose and throat specialist next month.His mum had sae problem too.Be nice to not hear the snoring anymore.Hope liongirl is all wonderfully well soon xxx
Glad your gorgeous girl is feeling better. Sorry about your chookies : (
ReplyDeleteyou and your little lady are amazing. so glad she bounced back so quickly, she looks ultra precious with her babycino. so sorry to hear about the chickens. here's to a brighter week. your lovely comments and support are so appreciated. maybe see you at a rummage soon? have a good sunday. xx
ReplyDeleteoh gosh that's awful about your chickens. My little boy had his adenoid surgery a couple of weeks ago. We are seeing the benefits already. Glad your little one recovered so quickly.
ReplyDeleteHi miss Mel! Your beautiful girl - what a star!! I am glad to hear that she is recovering so quickly. I hope so much that this does spell the end of your yuckness woes for a while - you truly deserve a break. Very sad about your chickens. It really is hard to imagine foxes running around in the burbs, but I hear that it happens all the time. Much love x
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear Lion Girl had a speedy recovery.
ReplyDeleteMy goodness your fox and the chickens story is something that if not in the country, I thought was relegated to fables. How shocking!!! Terribly sad too.
What terrible news about your lovely chooks - I'm always in fear of this happening at our place too. We're only 5kms from the city but there are quite a few bushland reserves near us and I'm certain they harbour foxes.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure your chickens led very lovely lives and enjoyed every day at your place.
What a trooper your little girl is. Can totally relate to adenoids like useless tonsilly bits...have had Tonsilitis the past few days - ugh. My husband ended up going and sleeping in the spare bed yesterday morning!!
ReplyDeletePoor chickies - we live in inner city Brisbane too and I'm quite worried about leaving them for 5 weeks. At the moment we lock them in to their house and let them out in the morning. Quite the chore that I'm not sure our housemates will be up for...Haven't come up with a good solution yet. The run is quite big and would be quite a lot of work to secure properly!