Hi,
I have three fur babies, two dogs and one cat. I am writing to you all to find out about reiki sessions for my black lab mix Abel.
Abel was adopted from the Humane Society in my town last May. At the time I was living in Florida finishing school and preparing for my move to Mississippi. I knew that one of the ways I wanted to “give back” was to adopt another dog. I found Abel on petfinder.com – it was the saddest thing I had ever seen. I don’t think I will ever forget the pictures of him, he looked small and afraid, he wouldn’t even lift his head up for the shelter workers to take his picture. His tail was between his legs and it was obvious that he was as low to the ground as he could be. As it turns out, his previous owners surrendered him in April and had obviously been physically abusive toward him. They even named him Gimp.
When my sister and I arrived to pick him up, the Humane Society manager told me that he was also heartworm positive (she told me to make sure he stayed on the preventative). As you can imagine, he was also very scared and skittish. We moved to Mississippi a few months after I got Abel and the first weekend I was here, I learned that he howls when he’s left alone. The first vet I went to here put him on some anti-anxiety medicine and we went through some behavior training, but Abel was still howling when I left. And, because he was howling, my other dog Ellie began to howl as well. My neighbor is less than thrilled with me, but I tried to explain to him that I am working on the situation, etc.
Last week, I took Abel to my new vet for his shots and to discuss some other options for managing his behavior. I told him that Abel had heartworms and gave him the information that I know about his background. The long and the short of it is that he has a moderate case of heartworms and has damage to his heart and lungs. He suggested giving him the treatment (antibiotics for a month followed by 2 doses of Immiticide) right away and starting Abel on a different separation anxiety medication. However, his anxiety has to be under control before starting the Immiticide treatment because he has to be confined for 8-10 weeks. Due to the damage in his heart and lungs, they only gave him a fair prognosis and said that there is a chance that I will lose him.
I knew that there was going to be damage from the heartworms and I agree that I can’t wait much longer to treat the condition, but I don’t want to lose him and am very upset with the situation. I firmly believe that love and positive thoughts and energy can heal him and I intend to go through with the treatment recommended by the vet. I am sure Abel can tell that I am upset and I have talked to him about it over the past few days, I promised him that I was going to do whatever I can to make sure that he remains happy and healthy for the rest of his life. I want to know several things though – I want to know how Abel feels about undergoing the treatment prescribed by the vet, if he feels like he and I can also work on together (with Reiki) to get rid of the heartworms and be healed, if there is some way to ease his anxiety when I leave and reassure him that I will always come back to him and for him and that I love him very, very much, and that if/when we start the Immiticide he has to be calm and still. It has really only been the past few days that I have been more comfortable with the treatment prescribed by the vet, and I kept talking about how he might die, etc. to my friends, right in front of him. I hope he didn’t perceive that in a bad way, but I don’t know how he couldn’t have and I am upset with myself for doing this and I did talk to him about it, so I hope he forgives me for doing that.
When we connected with Abel, all you wanted to do is shower him with as much love as you could with all the angels. His new Mama now is giving him all the love and care. We sent him physical healing to entire body focusing on his heart and lungs. We asked the parasites to leave his body. We also sent healing to his muscles.
