Posted by: Marge Paszek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tammy:
What is the name of the book?
Marge
Tammy Kinkade wrote:
>
> 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
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Marge Paszek
Heritage Hill Great Danes
http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Park/4587/
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