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Thursday, November 24, 2011

November 24, 2011 – Happy Thanksgiving and those darn crows

I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving.  I know at the Transplant House there was LOTS of food and everything I tried was good, there was way to much to try it all.  We are still making our treks to the clinic for Margaret’s 7:00 AM and 7:00 PM IVs of antibiotics and her veins are getting pretty beat up.  They put an IV line in and it has to changed every 3 days but she has never made it past two.  They do not leave the whole IV in all the time just then end (needle and end cap, technically it is not a needle) so they can they use this line, just the end, to put the antibiotics in so she doesn’t have to be stuck twice a day.  Unfortunately they can not use this line to draw blood.  Because of the chemo her hair is thinning daily, she has already started wearing head covers.

Now about the crows, there seems to be thousand of crows in Rochester.  At dawn and dusk the air is filled with thousands of them.  It is wise not to walk under trees or look up around here.  I went through a car wash and a day later my car had many ‘hits’ on it.  It is ridiculous.  Mayo is concerned and has hired a company to bring in ‘"attack birds," including peregrine falcons and hawks’, to scare off the crows’ to try to get rid of them.  I guess if the crows are smart they will fly away or they may be dinner.  I look forward to the success of these raptors.  The crows are also very loud and at dark if you were to shoot a shotgun in the aid you would probably get a dozen or more.  Something tells me that the Rochester police would want to know why you discharged a weapon within city limits though.

Hope you had a good Thanksgiving!
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  1. AnonymousNovember 24, 2011 at 7:13 PM

    So glad all is well thanksgiving and health wise. Have some darling head coverings when I see you. Thanks for the heads up on the crows...now for sure I won't be there til summer....I'm a bit sqeemish on the bird thing
    Love,
    M

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  2. AnonymousNovember 24, 2011 at 7:48 PM

    Happy Thanksgiving, sure you had turkey maybe it was crow?! :)
    Your story reminds me of the movie The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock 1963.
    Hugs,
    Fran

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  3. TeresaNovember 26, 2011 at 11:29 AM

    I hope that the falcons and hawks do the trick! I wonder if owls and swans would help, as they do with goose control. In the meantime, wear a helmet whe you go outside!

    I was once attacked by a crow when walking home from church. It's amazing how loudly those wings can flap, and how wide that wingspan is, when the bird is atop one's noggin! It was weird, very Hitchcock-esque. For a long time after that, every time I went outdoors, I ducked whenever I head a bird call.

    Anyway, it's good that Margaret has a PICC line (Hickman line? G tube?) for her chemo, but I didn't know that they needed to be changed so often! Wow.

    I'm glad that you enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner. :)

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