Carol!!! I miss you so much around these parts!!! I miss your writing! You were the primary person who got me interested in freewriting. We email now and then, but why don't we talk on the phone? I have your number in mine so we must have at some point. 

I am on strike from taking pictures on y phone, because I am on strike from using my phone at all. So that shot is from last year sometime, and I zoomed way in so it's all pixelated. But it captures her vim and vigor nicely. And she is coming when she was called. Good dog! 

All of my dogs have died young of cancer, except for the one who died young of protothecosis. This one is going to live a long and healthy life, because I ain't putting medical toxins into her if I can help it. I sure wish I had done this for my kids. 

I am still treating her for Lyme, because it's pretty obvious that's the problem, largely because the remedy is working like a charm, which is how homeopathy works when you get the right remedy. But yes, they tested her for Lyme. They will also analyze all other markers in her blood, urine and stool to determine if she is mounting a proper, natural, defense to the Lyme exposure. This vet will not treat Lyme if the defense seems adequate! I was very happy to hear that. My last vet would not treat her for anything at all unless I first treated her for Lyme which he diagnosed based on a snap test. This was last year. I never went back, and I did not give her the doxycycline. She recovered fully because Lyme hadn't been causing the symptoms I took her in for. She hadn't pooped for a week, was clearly in pain, and walking funny. I went home, gave her a wheat grass enema, she pooped twenty minutes later, and was 100% fine after that. 

You have to chip your dogs? Why? I refuse that spy device in my animals. I let them jab her for rabies, because it's super illegal not to in NYS. But she's also not licensed, so I don't have to prove that she's up to date every single year and can jab her less often, but if I do get caught in that little act of civil disobedience (not licensing my animals), she's likely to be up-to-date on the vaccine and I'll get a little slap on the wrist. 

I have dedicated my body and the body of my dog to science. We're in the control group, the group that doesn't pump the body full of toxins to achieve health. How does that make any sense? What a load of crock. It's fascism I tell ya. Don't get me started. 

Hazel passed the clinical exam with flying colors. Her dental health, especially, seemed to surprise the doctor. I enjoyed a trip to the vet! usually, I am disgruntled after a $500 hit and a tongue lashing. 

Thank you!!! 

It's really hard to find a vet who won't push every vaccine there is on you. Most boarding facilities require all of them, too. I think the vets must get kickbacks of some kind for vaccine compliance, just like our pediatricians do. I'm determined to keep my current animals healthy until ripe old ages, and I believe minimal vaccination is key to this. A healthy body would easily fight all those illnesses with no harmful effects, even Lyme. So far, so good. 

It's always nice to see your smiling personage too, Lizelle! 

I feel so much safer knowing there's a vet who gets this. Hazel is a wonderful dog, I'm so grateful for her.