Well, over the past couple of days my mom and I made the official decision that we are not going to do amputation. We cannot do that again. Stardom (our last dog) had a horrible reaction to the surgery, had post-operative bleeding issues, and died within a week. And most sites that talk about amputation seem to estimate that even a successful surgery only ads a year or so to life. Of course, talk to your own vet about that. And advice I have heard also suggests consulting with a cancer specialist (veterinary oncologist). You can find them on the internet if your vet doesn't know.
Anyhow, it has been a wrenching decision but it is a relief that the "scary ticking clock" about deciding on surgery or not has gone away for us. Sable is going to be whole and intact for as long as she is happy and comfortable. Then we will let her go. But we are hoping to keep her happy and comfortable for as long as possible using holistic and spiritual practices. Whether that means a month or five years, to us it is quality of time over quantity.
So. I'll just go over a bit of the spiritual type of work I am talking about.
First, I am a Reiki practitioner. Reiki is a form of energy healing that has really taken off, and is often even practiced now in conventional hospitals, and some vet clinics. I am a practitioner of Usui Reiki. I learned the techniques taught by Diane Stein in her book, "Essential Reiki."
http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Reiki-Complete-Ancient-Healing-ebook/dp/B004G5ZYDS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411760850&sr=8-1&keywords=diane+stein
Diane Stein also has a book just about healing for cats and dogs called (which makes sense), "Natural Healing for Dogs and Cats"
http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Healing-Dogs-Diane-Stein-ebook/dp/B004G8PG6K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411760878&sr=8-1&keywords=diane+stein+cats+and+dogs
Stein's books both talk about Reiki for pets. I give Sable Reiki at least once a day, and usually twice. Often that is morning and night (before and after work).
Natural Healing for Dogs & Cats has many other forms of natural healing in it, including flower essences and psychic communication with your pet.
So here is another topic. Especially when we were still considering amputation, I thought it would be important to try to communicate with Sable and see how she felt about things. In general Stein suggests communicating with sick animals to see if they have the will to live or if they would rather be let go, and communicate "love" to them at all times.
The thing with just beginning to practice animal communication at a stressful time like this is, I am unsure of myself. So I asked a friend of mine who practices psychic or spirit communication with animals. He is in France, and he volunteers with primarily cats at a vet clinic. I don't want to share his personal information with out asking, but I thought I would share some of what he emailed me in response to my cry for help. I do this in the hopes that it might also help others.
Hi Leslie,
I did get your personal message and you have done well in contacting me. I always feel grateful when an animal contacts me directly or indirectly through their humans for help.
So, I have thought a moment about how I could help you both and will just write down what spontaneously comes to my mind, you may pick from that list what makes sense to you.
First, for your own communications, to be able to distinguish what comes from her and what comes from you, sometimes I happened to receive an information that I thought “interesting, I would not have thought about that”. So I said to myself that this did not come from me, but from the animal or elsewhere. You may be able to feel that, as well. You may also when receiving an answer or message ask directly “is this Sable speaking to me?” and usually you get an answer, which may simply be a feeling of yes or no. The important thing is trusting, without doubting (not always simple) in the answer you receive.
Second, if you can send me a picture of Sable, I can try and communicate with her. I may also send it with your authorization to my animal communicators group. It is not as active as it was before, but one or two persons may be willing to communicate and share their results with you. As most of them do not speak English, I would be happy to serve as your interpreter.
Third, I have no idea about how advanced you are in meditation and other spiritual techniques, but I would try this, too. I am working a lot with color frequencies lately – as our bodies are essentially made of light and energy – and have good results on my own organism. The principle is quite easy, go into a meditative state, then focus on either the body part or the chakras and work with special or all colors on them by saying the color's name a couple of times. If you are interested in doing this, I can give you more details on how to do it. I may as well be able to do something remotely, if you want me to.
Fourth, on the physical plane, I have experimented with a lot of substances and would right now always try vitamine B17 first. (It should be easier to administer to a dog than to a cat...) Don't forget to also get her a lot out into the sun, for vitamine D production.
Fifth, whatever you give to her, I mean homeopathy or whatever, or even her food, try to energize it or rather bless it before giving it to her. I have accompanied a cat with a bad jaw cancer in the beginning of the year, named Shrek, I think I mentioned him somewhere on the forum. I found this special formula that I feel is very powerful:
If it corresponds to the Universe's will, then I will now receive the codes that are the assistance from up high to help my brother, the cat, in healing himself.
I said that everytime before I gave something to him, be it medicine or food, while holding it in my hand and being connected with my Being or Higher Self.
Sixth, you may try to communicate not with Sable herself, but with the cells in her body. I did that sometimes and found out that the cells have other knowledge, that the animal himself did not have. They may for example tell you that they need a special substance or special color frequency, and then you could give that to them through your mind or in Sable's environment by giving her a blanket or whatever of that color. It may be easier for you than to communicate with Sable herself, as of knowing where the information is from. Cells usually have a very distinctive and basic way of turning things, you may manage to be more aware that this does not come from yourself.
Seventh, maybe the most difficult step is working on yourself. I saw that so many times in myself and other persons. Somebody whom I love a lot, Krishna Das, speaks in one of his videos about the “letting go muscle”. It is this muscle we need when it comes to be available as a person who accompanies in disease and at the end of this earthly live, without being submerged by our own feelings.
Eight, I am sure that you know that the most important thing, whatever the outcome of this situation is to give her love, love and more love. I understood with Shrek that the outcome (he died in the end, but all on his own, we did not need to euthanize him) did not really matter. I would have been more than happy to be able to save him, but apparently, this was not what we had to live both together, but rather that situation that was basically hopeless, depressing etc. and both grow from that and learn about the connection between suffering and love and trust – and go though it together. I think that it was important for him to know that he could count on me. And I have learned through him that the more there is suffering, the more there can be love. And when I say suffering, I don't mean physical suffering alone, nor in the first place, because this is something we can modify quite well with modern vet medicine, but we still have to go through the emotional suffering which comes for them from no longer being able to move, to live like before, and for us to share this time with them.
So, those are just some ideas, I have more if you want, for now which is the moment where you have to find out what Sable wants herself (maybe she guides you there anyway, because you respond on the intuitive level, without noticing that you are communicating) and still try some physical or spiritual methods, or for later, should you need to accompany her (like shaman work on cleaning chakras).
One last thing that comes to my mind is that I felt the need to attach a paper over Shrek's head on the armchair where he spent his days. It said: “Love & Gratitude”. Those are the two most powerful feelings and frequencies according to research done by Masaru Emoto, whom you may know.
Ok, those are my thoughts and ideas, not necessarily in a very clear order. I hope they are of some help to you.
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