Small Creatures and Critters!

I put up a new bird feeder today,

and wondered who my first guests would be...

I was expecting this guy...
You can tell he's been flourishing on my sunflower seeds,
can't you?!!

And this guy has been hanging around quite a bit.

I certainly didn't think it would be this one...
What do you think it is?
At first I thought it was an owl,
but after I looked closer I thought it might be
a red shouldered hawk...

But I wouldn't have guessed my first guest would be a mockingbird!

I couldn't help  but wonder if he was one of the juveniles that had hung out

on my back deck this past summer and that I had featured on a previous blogpost.

(If you'd like to see it, click on the highlighted letters to take you to that post.)

Well, I haven't painted a ROCK lately,

so I guess I ought to work on that.

Maybe I'll get one done today!

It sounds like more fun than going through years of accumulated "treasures",

trying to decide what to keep, what to throw away,

and what to donate!

You can check it out at Rock4Today, okay?

Thanks for your visit!

No Surgery? Sounds a bit "squirrelly"...

About one month ago I was SICK, SICK, SICK!

I was so sick that I didn't feel like getting out of bed.

At first I just thought I had a bad case of the flu,

but when I became extremely nauseous, was "throwing up", chilling, fever,

and had developed extreme pain in the right lower quadrant of my abdomen,

I became suspicious of appendicitis.
My husband insisted on taking me to the doctor's office.
After ordering a CT scan, my family doctor gave me the choice
 of going home on antibiotics or being admitted to the hospital.
I didn't live far from the hospital, so decided to go home.

As a registered nurse, I felt I was pretty familiar
 with the symptoms of appendicitis,

but looked them up to refresh my memory.

Yep!  I had about every one of them!

To see what they are, click HERE to take you to WebMD.

When my symptoms were slightly improved,
but not gone after six days of antibiotic therapy,

my family doctor referred me to a surgeon.

Now, here was the surprise to me - No surgery recommended!

The surgeon changed my antibiotics, 

and stated that appendicitis cases were often treated this way

instead of the standard "appendectomy" that had been done for years!

He stated that European countries had been doing this treatment

successfully for many years.

He didn't send me home without instructing me to contact him

immediately if the pain worsened, if I started throwing up again,

or if I began vomiting again.

He also said,
"I'm not telling you that you have appendicitis,
but I'm certainly not telling you that you don't!"

We have a saying in the south when something sounds unusual,
unbelievable, or possibly outlandish,
we say it sounds "squirrelly"!

So, I went to the "web" and looked up information to verify this.

In one study, to my surprise I found that 88% of patients treated with antibiotics

recovered without any problems!

(Click on the highlighted letters to see that link.)

Although I had some problems with the side-effects of the antibiotics,

one month later, I seem to have had a full recovery.

Thank you, Jesus!

Sooooo,
like these birds appear to be sharing,
I thought I'd share this information with you!

To see my latest Name of God on Rocks post,

click HERE or for one of my related posts on healing, click HERE!

Thanks for your visit!

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hop on over to Stewart's Gallery, 

where we all get to show off our bird photography.