Finally, after many clients’ suggestions, I named my pin cushion “Bessie”. She is very useful and makes counting needles after treatment painless (you know what I mean).
I have been very busy this last month: here is a quick review of some patients I am treating.
Before leaving for Maryland, I saw “Scooby”, a Golden Retriever. Sandee lost “Baron” earlier this year and Scooby entered her life later this year. Scooby likes to make an entrance in the pool. The day before I saw him, he had a 2 hour jumping, and swimming session under his belt. Yes, you guessed it, this athlete wanna be Phelps was a little sore.
“Wednesday” is still doing well, eating well. Her bladder cancer seems to be stabilized or slow growing. As you can see on the picture of her second acupuncture treatment, the needles do not bother her.“Jessie”, my WOOD kitty patient, probably has the same type of bladder cancer as “Wednesday”. To the amazement of Jenny, her owner, she is still around. She is quite a tough little kitty; she is treated for several old kitty ailments, but seems in good spirit despite all this and functioning like nothing is going on. She is on medications, Chinese herbals and acupuncture to support her.
“Pidge” my favorite stubborn Bull Dog, is continuing to loose weight, however, she developed a old dog vestibular syndrome and has been slowly getting back to stand and moving around. I treated her today and we hope she will be moving around better in the next few days.
“Bishop” and “Lucky” are two sweet senior Shelties I started acupuncture and Chinese herbals.
“Patches” is this friendly senior Fox Terrier I started last week for a painful neck. We are waiting to see how much improvement we will see this week.
“Leia” belongs to Rhonda, a super veterinary technician. She likes Labradors and she actually has 5 of them! Leia is 13 yrs old and has some weakness problems with her hind end. Hopefully the acupuncture and Tui-na will help her have a better quality of life.
“Sable” is still good. The ankle wrap (we have one on right now) is doing its job. “Sable” loves to go for short walks, and his muscles are now more relaxed then when I started with him. I remember the first time I saw Sable, John the owner, told me if I try to touch him he’ll bite. He now accepts our touch since he feels more comfortable.
