Vaccinations are hurting our dogs

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Darcie

Dear Darcie, I just read your e-mail on certain foods and totally agree with you. We had 6 dogs and I cook their meals for them. I did everything right as far as food and their diets and yet I still lost my little pug, Star, on 12/29/2011 to something I had never heard of before. TEN. This was caused by her vaccines. She died a horrible death. It started with a bright red rash on her skin. We rushed her to the emergency vet when it appeared. They said allergic reaction, gave her steroids and sent her home. It looked like it was getting better as the red paled a little. The next week that paling rash turned into blisters which were full of puss. This wasn’t a slow process, it happened over about an hour. We took her to our vet and again they said allergic reaction, gave her more steroids and sent her home. We couldn’t work out what she had come into contact with as nothing had changed at home. I don’t use cleaners like bleach etc. only vinegar based cleaners. Two days later we were back at the vet. This time they bathed her with a special shampoo which I then had to bath her with every second day and put her on antibiotics. Again they said they had no idea what it was. This was the Friday before Christmas. By the day after Christmas she was worse so back to the vet. This time they finally decided I need to see a specialist and sent me to Georgia Veterinary College. Immediately they said it was TEN. We did everything we could for her but it was too late and she died because she went septic.
I wanted to tell you this in the hopes that just maybe another dog could be saved by you letting people know about this terrible reaction to vaccines. Vets don’t tell you that this could happen and in fact don’t seem to know themselves. Apparently it doesn’t happen often but it does happen and not only to animals but to people too. Their chances of surviving are slim but there is a chance if it is diagnosed quickly and the person/animal is treated like a burn victim. If we had known that we would have done everything we could to keep her in a sterile environment and had her on blood cleansers and antibiotics right from the start. Instead our ignorance killed her. Please could you let people know what to look out for. Star was only 5 years old when she died. She was supposed to be with us for many years.
Thanks.
Take care,
Lindy

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When life changes…

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Darcie

Dear Darcie, Let me take this opportunity to tell you what a bright light you’ve been in my life this last year. I have a number of similar things going on, and lost my terv at 14+ last Jan. Seeing Kate’s pics and hearing about your process has been amazing. Thank you for your generosity in sharing your process and I hope all the changes will bring only good going forward. I first got to know you and Kent via Belg-L many years ago, and you were generous with great advice on books when I adopted Conor. So, we have a long history :-) . Kristin

Dear  Kristin, Life is good even when things may seem really bad. Life just is. I know that it’s true. I think that God directs us to a new path with happenings that seem to us at the time as bad things. Perhaps we weren’t listening to His gentle guidance so he put real brick walls in our path to get us to change our life journey. In my case, I was staying with my husband until death do us part no matter what. He wanted to leave everything he knew, the good and the bad, and all that he’d worked for and go make his life somewhere else, he said, and he did. That’s all I’ll say about that here.

I read my Bible every night before I go to sleep, a chapter or two and I sleep well. I’ve read it all the way through 2 times in my life and I’m doing it again. I don’t pretend to understand how peace is given to me so deep in my being, I sure am glad that it is. I simply believe that life is good. Faith. The Bible is a pretty interesting book and just the reading of it adds to my peacefulness. Even in the hardest of the times it gave me comfort and I didn’t lose a night’s sleep in the whole time my life was changing…that’s a pretty powerful statement for the words.

You know, the one thing that tells me the most about my big life change these past few years and that it was instrumented by God’s hand is that…Dancer’s passing in June 2009 was the thing that hurt me most in the past four years. That tells me that my heart had been being blessed with a readiness for what was going to happen. I miss Dancer less and less these days and I’m glad about that. I sure did love that dog to pieces. Losing her really hurt.

I think Everyone should have a higher being, a universal oneness, a higher self, some kind of strength of a wonderful and good kind to rely on in times of good and bad. It makes life so much easier.

Nothing gets me down for long, I believe that all things happen for the good.  My home is peaceful and it’s lovely and clean. If I lost my house tomorrow, it would still all be good. A house isn’t a home. It’s the heart and the love that make a home and that can be wherever you are.

Kate and I are happy and doing great. She fell off the bed last night! Woke me out of a sound sleep. I think she was sleeping so soundly that she wasn’t sure what happened either. She got back into bed and we went back to sleep. :-) – Peace Everybody. – Darcie

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Stranger play date today

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Darcie

I was on my way out to spend my Christmas gift cards…I saw a young black lab playing in the park with his 10 year old boy and the boy’s Mom. Diverted by a chance for a play date!

They gave me the strangest look and angled away from me toward their car. “Hi!” I called. “Hold on a second.” When I caught up with them I introduced myself and asked if their puppy could come and play in the backyard with Kate. They smiled and said okay, still a bit wary of me, a total stranger.

Mom went to get the car from the lot, the boy and I went to my house where I put the black lab pup into the backyard. The boy decided he’d wait for his Mom in the front yard instead of going on in. I smiled at him and went into the house to get Kate.

Kate and the 5 month old puppy played for about 45 minutes. The Mom finally told me that she thought I was coming into the park to give her heck that her dog wasn’t on leash. I told her, “Not me. I think that all dogs should get to play in the park if they’re under some semblance of control.”

When they left it seemed that they were still wondering who the heck I was and why I felt so comfortable approaching them.

Funny world, isn’t it? Well, Kate had a wonderful time and so did the pup. – Darcie

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