After 2 days of some sort of stomach thing, plus the weather change Luka is back to normal and better this morning. She had a nice walk yesterday, slow and easy with most of it just smelling around, visiting all her old smelly places....you know, dog stuff.
We got her Thera-paws in the mail on Mon. I have to say they are very nice. Well made, stayed on great. They are much better than the ones I have seen in the stores before. (I have seen them over the years but was never impressed much with them, but after Luka got hurt, do you think I could find any around here locally? Nope.) Anyway, they are made from nice stretchy material on top with velcro to keep them on. All padded inside to protect the foot, and the best of all........they have real rubber with tread on the bottoms. Even the toes have rubber on them to keep them from wearing out too fast.
We have really wicked roads and ground up here. There are sharp pieces of shale everywhere. Even in the grassy areas. Luka skinned up her hind feet on the lawn when she first was going down and we were using the towel on her. We needed something that would be tough enough. These boots are just that. Yesterday I was able to lower her feet down so she can feel the ground under her. She did not like having her hind feet up which I had to do before because of the rough ground. I can happily report that she was moving her legs and even going thru some higher grass and sides of the road the boots stayed on. She also seemed to have better balance with her feet down. She was much more relaxed about our walk. Pretty sure that was because it felt more natural to her to have her legs down.
This morning she stood for her poops again. Squatted like a pro then stood back up. She did not knuckle over this morning !!!!
Progress is continuing. I have to say after the prognosis of 3 different vets saying they could NOT help her as they could only recommend surgery and then did not even know if that were an option. One suggested putting her to sleep..grrr.
When we talked to her homeopath, he said it might be slow but her was sure he could help her to heal and that she WOULD walk again. I have to agree that this is coming. She was badly vaccine damaged which she has been fighting also with several distemper type symptoms coming out every week. They come out and then are gone. She also displayed several symptoms of the other diseases that the vaccines are supposed to protect against....this is called vaccinosis. The vaccines are only attenuated. Which means they use live virus (except for the rabies) and put it into a chemical solution to supposedly make it weaker but the body is supposed to be able to fight it with immune response. Great idea, almost homeopathic except they then inject it into the body of the animal. If the dog were to be exposed to the real virus in the wild, it would enter thru the mucous membranes or their nose or mouth. The immune response is much more lethal to viruses in these areas. When you vaccinate you bypass that first line of defense.
When you vaccinate an unhealthy animal such as Luka was, it can be disasterous. Which it was. She got sick, and went down. She was walking when they vaccinated her. She went down 10 days later after being very ill first. She ran a temp, vomited, and had the runs.....even her chiropractor was upset that they had vaccinated her when she was not in good shape.
The homeopathic treatments that Luka has been on are two fold. One remedy is addressing her nerve problems due to the initial injury (working well too!) The other remedies have been to stimulate her own natural immune defenses to fight off and defeat the individual vaccine induced viruses...
So she has been fighting distemper virus, leptospirosis, parvo, hepititis, canine flu and side effects from the rabies vax......
She is coming thru this wonderfully so far. And getting her leg function back. I salute the homeopathic vet and the whole homepathic way of healing. It allows the animal to heal itself, just like God made our bodies to do. Allopathic meds all work by suppression of symptoms. They do not kill most viruses. Nor do they heal. The allopathics would be out of work soon if their meds actually healed people. Unfortunately the homeopathics are all too busy these days fixing what the allopathics have caused by suppression.
Ever think about how most allopathic meds have so many side effects? You hear about them daily on the tv...they advertise some new med that will "help" you with this or that....then in a very fast voice they list the "major" side effects....if you go look them up usually there are way more than they tell you.
Homeopathic remedies do not do that. A homeopathic remedy is a very diluted version of whatever it is that it is curing. I mean very diluted. When given to the animal/human it is given by mouth, usually. The body recognizes that the substance is foreign and immediately gets the immune system up and running to eliminate that from the body by either killing it or detoxing it thru urine or feces....and with a virus it means that body is now immune to it because it has already fought it off once and is now on the lookout for it. It will also work for most other toxic substances.....
I wanted to discuss this here and now as there is a lot of misconception on what homeopathy is all about. It is not understood so people tend to dismiss the way it works. It has been practiced much longer than the allopathic profession. It was perfected and then built upon back in the early 1800's by Samuel Hannemann. He is referred to as the Father of Homeopathy. His studies and research have benefited all who have used it, for the good.
Please do not dismiss something that you have never given a chance nor because you do not understand it. If a homeopathic remedy didn't work, then it was the wrong remedy. The correct remedy given under competant homeopathic care by a professional homeopath always works. Never try to treat yourself if you are not under the care of a homeopath or have been told by one what to do.
Ok, off my soapbox now. To learn more about homeopathy you can visit the following forum and read and learn.
http://www.hpathy.com/homeopathyforums/default.asp
There is a wealth of info there. Read and learn. I am doing that right now with great results shown in my dog Luka. My husband is also being treated now and is showing a marked improvement in just the first few days....I am very pleased. Very pleased.
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