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When All Seems Hopeless, Don’t Give Up

January 23, 2010 on 11:24 am | In General Posts | 1 Comment

Every day I see pets whose owners share with me the same tragic story. Their veterinarians have told them there is nothing they can do to help their pets. Many of these pets were seen by their veterinarians for routine checkups or what appeared to be minor problems. During the visit, a serious condition, often cancer, was diagnosed. As a result of the seriousness of the disease, the veterinarian offered no hope. Instead, the veterinarian told the owners that their pets had only a few weeks to live and recommended euthanasia when the pets’ condition declined.

Unfortunately, many pet owners around the country are also given a similar tragic diagnosis and hopeless prognosis and follow their veterinarians’ advice, ending their pets’ lives a few weeks after what appears to be a hopeless situation is diagnosed.

What would you do if you were in a similar situation? Would you follow your veterinarian’s advice and give up all hope of your pet recovering from its serious illness? Or would you do what my clients do and seek out another opinion and another system of healthcare?

Integrative/holistic/natural/green therapies can offer “hope for the hopeless.” While I can’t always cure all of my patients, I can offer all of them hope and make them healthier. It is not uncommon for me to treat a pet who is given weeks to live by the previous veterinarian and have that pet live many months or even several years!

The reason for my success? Unlike conventional doctors, I focus on HEALING the pet rather than TREATING the disease.
This is a foreign concept to many doctors. When I was in veterinary school, I was taught to diagnose and treat disease. Our goal was never to improve the health of the pet but simply to win the battle against the disease. When that is not possible, the only other alternative is euthanasia.

However, using integrative therapies, I can now focus on improving my patients’ health rather than simply trying to win the war against a particular disease. Even when the disease ultimately proves fatal, I’m often able to improve the pet’s health and help it live much longer than the previous veterinarian thought possible.

I see these “miracles of healing” every day! If you would like to read more about pet owners who refused to give up on their pets and instead discovered the miracle of natural health, you can read their stories in Unexpected Miracles-Hope and Holistic Healing for Pets.