Forgive us readers for we have been silent. It has been several weeks since our last update /post.
It is midnight and I am waiting for another 15 minutes to pass before I give Beanca another dose of medicine. Last week, after a week of medicines, the vet looked at her eye and said that it needed surgery for her to see again. I am ot totally clear on what was happening, but it was something about a cataract growing beyond the lens and blocking off light and sight from the eye. Twins being her good eye. When we went to the appointment last Monday, you could only see silvery stuff, no iris, no pupil.
Doctor Dan looked it over and said he could fix it. Wednesday morning Beanca had surgery. She stayed at the vets until Saturday morning. She needs her medicines every 8 hours". Today was 10am, 5pm, and 1 am. She gets 2 drops of 2 different. Medicines. They need 15 or 20 minutes between the different drops, so I go into her cage 6 times a day and wrestle with her to put drops in her eyes.
Needless to say, Beanca is NOT loving this. She has learned the art of Karatalon... The ancient art of empty talon fighting. If she has her way, she will flip me over her perch and out the door. She keeps finding new ways to bite and claw while restrained.
The cage rebuilds are going well. I think we will be done in early 2020 (yes, that is an exaggeration). The weather has gotten much better for outdoor work. Now, if only there were a way to get rid of mosquitoes...
The Rolesville Ship On Site that we had our mailing address through went out of business, so we had to scramble to get a new mailing address. As all of. O know, the. Making address is NOT at our physical location. The physical location is not public, so we keep a public mailing address for everything we do.
Our new mailing address is 4501 New Bern Ave, suite 130-333, Raleigh NC 27610. Twins does not mean we have moved the refuge, oly the mailing address has changed.
That is about it. Oh! Wait! I almost forgot, birds stuff....
This month we have had a lot of stupid hunters come in. These are babies from this year who are away from the nest for the first time, and desperately trying to survive, often b dong something stupid. The stupid hunters are victims of stupid injuries, or of just hunger because they are not catching enough food to survive. Often they come in hungry, and need places to eat and practice flying. We can help that.
One came in with a pox, or some sort of infection. The infection was one that we wee concerned that could spread to the other birds, so we had to euthanize that bird. It was not an easy division. We might have been able to save it, though it was in really bad shape, but it would have been in close contact with our other hospital rids (9 other right now) and put them at risk for catching it.
We have released 3 birds, and gotten in another 9 in the past 2 weeks. It is getting more and more busy.
Our next shows are November 10th and 17th at the Wild Birds Unlimited in Cary (10th) and Raleigh (17th) it is very likely Beanca will be ahere with her friends.
-Steve
