Posted by: "Tammy Kinkade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ruby,
...And have you gotten to his section on cancer yet??? If that one isn't an
eye opener, I don't know what is.
I'd found this book at our local library a few weeks ago...and I hadn't told
anyone on the list this for fear that you'd all think I was nuts...but I
used this book on Samson just over a week ago. Having this book in my hand
actually kept me from taking him to the vets when he got sick...and as a
result, he had a small healing crisis of his own.
Here's the story...
On Wednesday, the 20th of October (my birthday, no less), Samson refused
breakfast. Now that in itself is highly weird - this 5 month old pup will
eat *absolutely anything*!! He wouldn't even eat one bite of his chicken (I
feed BARF). Spent the whole day sleeping, which is also odd - he has a very
high energy level and spends most of his time tormenting me or the other 2
now that I'm home and unemployed.
Supper time - the same thing. He refused whatever I was feeding. He'd
pottied normally all day - nothing unusual. But, not long after supper, he
started vomiting. The odd thing was that he vomited up what he'd eaten
Tuesday night - somehow that had managed to stay in his stomach for 24
hours! He vomited 4 or 5 times that night. Still normal potty routines,
but his temp. was about 131.5 - about a degree or so above normal. I tried
Pepto, but that didn't help him - got that book out and realized I was
giving him the wrong stuff, so gave him some Mylanta instead, which seemed
to stop the vomiting. He didn't get me up through the night or anything,
and was fine 'til morning.
Thursday morning he still didn't want to eat, which was fine. I pumped
Pedialyte down him and offered plain yogurt only. He might have licked up a
little - I was just looking for something to help his digestive tract in
case diarrhea followed. He did NOT have a temp. at all after Wednesday
evening. His stools softened throughout the day, but they were still on the
same schedule. His energy level fluctuated quite a bit throughout the day
too...he'd sleep for long periods of time, then play with Hoss just a little
bit. When we were outside, he'd get a bit rompy, too.
Friday he seemed better energy wise and didn't have a bowel movement 'til
later in the day so I started the morning with cottage cheese and the
enzymatic potato mixture Dr. Goldstein recommended (one white potato, one
sweet potato, one slice of turnip and one slice of leek - all boiled
together) to help his digestive system try to regulate. He did get diarrhea
by Friday evening. I went back to fasting - still no temp. No blood in his
stools or urine - and I still haven't spoken to a vet yet...His skin had
started to feel pretty oily and he had started to smell bad.
Saturday - now he really has diarrhea like you'd expect a sick dog to have.
He still has a good energy level, though, and no temp. He plays with Dave
and Hoss off and on throughout the day. I lay off the food still - offering
only chicken broth and water mixed with pedialyte. He has continued to
drink pretty normally throughout this whole period, although one evening he
went a bit overboard, but I don't remember which one it was. Saturday
evening he vomits up the potato mixture from the day before. Still no
temp., but at this point I've gotten pretty worried because I feel like he's
going backwards. After talking to my mom, I decided to call her vet (he's
closest, but he also is too conventional for me). For some reason, they
didn't leave an emergency number, but said to leave a message on the machine
if you have an emergency...so I did. (There are no emergency clinics in NW
Ohio - if you're wondering.) Samson's diarrhea got worse throughout the
rest of the evening. He got me up a number of times in the night - and I
kept a close eye on his stools for blood or anything unusual. He started
whining as he went - it was starting to hurt...(I'm sure I looked pretty
silly out there with a flashlight watching him poop...) Oh, and he's
smelling pretty ripe by now. His skin is really oily and his fur feels
pretty coarse.
Sunday morning he awoke about 5:00 a.m. and Dave took him out. Dave said he
"passed" a golf ball sized chunk of something crunchy looking, which hurt,
too because he whined as he passed it. Then, he did his "happy dance" as
Dave calls it and bounced around the yard awhile like he was so proud of
himself. Dave gave him a bath later that day and he lost a lot of fur.
Smelled nice and sweet afterwards and the smell never did return - the
diarrhea was still there, even after whatever it was he passed. But it
didn't hurt him anymore. Oh, and the vet never did call me...won't be going
back to them ever!!! I guess that's a good thing, though, because I know
they just would have put him on antibiotics and other stuff he didn't need.
After passing his whatever it was, I started with Kaopectate for the first
time to get his diarrhea under control. Continued fasting for the rest of
the day. As I reread parts of Dr. Goldstein's book, I realized that it was
really beginning to sound like he had been ridding himself of some sort of
toxin...whether it was from the dog food he was fed as a young pup or all
the puppy shots he got before he landed with us, I don't know. But Samson
had had a healing crisis all by himself, and thank God I hadn't actually
talked to the vet.
I did call a homeopathic vet in Richmond, IN on Monday and explained the
situation, and she agreed that Samson was ridding his body of some kind of
toxic buildup. He lost about 15 lbs. in the process, and I was finally able
to get him back on normal, solid food meals last Friday, so we've got lots
of weight to put back on. Dr. Blakey said that it was probably brought on
by the fact that I was home and able to be with him through it...his body
knew that I could be home to take care of him...(odd, but she did say that!)
Watching the whole thing in person was just incredible - he felt so much
better after he passed that crunchy thing (I did dissect it and it was just
little hard, yellow crunchy stuff, bound together with feces...) - his
energy level shot up after that and he acted his same old self again....and
the toughest thing was just letting it happen. As good doggy mommies and
daddies, we always automatically think they should go to the vets if there's
something wrong. That's what we've been brainwashed into believing. But
this time I knew that, because he didn't have a temp. and wasn't passing
blood anywhere and his energy level was good, it wasn't your typical
illness. And I knew that they'd just pump him full of antibiotics and send
him home...and Dr. Goldstein's book really makes you take a good hard look
at how your vet treats your pet's symptoms - not the illness!
I held out...and I'm so grateful that I did. It's an amazing process to
witness firsthand!
...And Ruby...I will admit - I haven't had my dogs vaccinated for rabies
since they were pups...Samson is almost 6 months old, and with his
"outgoing" and somewhat aggressive nature, I'm terrified to get his rabies
shot...
To any and all of you who have made it through this whole, terribly long
story. If you haven't read this book, run, don't walk to get it wherever
you can find it (list price is $25.00, but Barnes and Noble has it for
$17.** something online...). Not only does it list homeopathic remedies for
most everything, it really makes you take a look at the way the veterinary
profession plugs vaccines as the ultimate cure-all, and how wrong they are
about that!
Hoss kisses, Pooh snuggles and Samson smacks,
Tammy Kinkade
Defiance, Ohio
