Hospice for Animals: Spirits in Transition - Show #129
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Ella’s my friend too - for real, WOOF! I met her last summer, June ‘07, as we rode in the car to Santa Fe and she held my paw all the way…AND she thinks I’m handsome, WOOF!
This week on Animal Talk Naturally we have special friend, whom Kim had the pleasure of meeting in June ‘07, holistic veterinarian, Ella Bittel. She is the founder of the program Spirits in Transition as a wonderful form of hospice for animals. Ella is a practicing holistic veterinarian in CA, with the specialties of acupuncture, acupressure, chiropractic, cranio-sacral work, homeopathy, TTOUCH, and energy work. Here is this week’s synopsis:
Our Guest
Ella Bittel with MomoSynopsis
1. By way of Germany
2. Emotionally challenged
3. Put us on duty
4. Veterinary hospice care
5. Inspired by our animals
6. A Third Option
7. Suffering Perspective
8. In the Moment
9. Geriatric care
10. Pain management
11. The Dying Process
Quotes
Coming to peace with the “real life” process of dying, versus some theoretical concept of it or its distorted TV mask, can let us discover its incredibly life enriching value. Animals can teach us about this if we let them, giving us a last priceless gift from that relationship of person and companion animal.. ~ Ella Bittel
John 5:24 & 6:63-64
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Veterinary naturopaths, Dr. Kim Bloomer and Dr. Jeannie Thomason now in their third year of online talk radio. Unlearning to care for your animals naturally, the human-animal bond and animal nature is their message. You and your animals can be “ears up” for the podcast at www.animaltalknaturally.com.
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From one of our avid listeners, Terry Morrow:
Hey Kim – how are you doing? I’ve been listening to a bunch of your new shows. Good thing I listened to the one recently on hospice and the signs to look for when you’re animal is ready to pass on.
My oldest dog, Max, the one you and I have previously discussed his bouts with pancreatitist in the past and I’ve been supplementing a lot of probiotics, etc. as he passed away this past Friday morning. I thought he might be getting sick again late that night, but unfortunately it was more than being sick. At least I knew the signs and was able to be with him at home. I couldn’t have done anything being 45 minutes away from the nearest emergency vet and since he’d lost all control of his legs, etc., I couldn’t have gotten him in the car since he was a 72 pound dog. I just knew in my heart it was his time and a vet (if he had made it to the vet) would have just prolonged the whole ordeal and cost a fortune. Once I knew what was happening I got him comfortable on sheets, grabbed some green tea and a pillow for my fanny and sat with him for the next two hours and comforted him. I don’t think he was it a lot of pain, mostly scared I think. I haven’t been through this before except for a couple of my cats in the past, but I had to have them put to sleep so of course that happens in less than a minute.
I have to tell you, as much as it hurt to see him go through this and to let him go, I’ve had the feeling he wouldn’t make it through the year. He wasn’t recouping from having tumors removed again less than two months ago as fast as he had last year and was having more problems getting up from lying down. He’d look good one day and the next he would look haggard again and no matter what or how much I fed him he always acted like he was starving. Earlier that day he was acting fine so I was not expecting it that day that’s for sure.
My gut feeling is he did have cancer or something like that going on internally. I did not have the tumors biopsied this time (last year they were malignant) as I had already made the decision not to do chemo, radiation or anything like that. Hate to say it but with six dogs I could not have afforded it and I didn’t feel it would be fair to put him through all that since he has had so many health issues in the past five years.
I’m not telling you this to make you feel bad, Kim, just wanted to let you know that if I hadn’t been listening to your shows I may not have been able to handle this situation as well and probably had gone into panic mode off to the vet. I’m a practical person but love my dogs passionately, but also don’t believe in putting them through so much pain and treatments that would have probably not afforded him much of a quality of life just for me to selfishly keep him with me. I just wanted you to know that even on the hard subjects like this, your show has been a blessing to me.
Hope all is well with you and your loved ones. I heard on one of your shows you are house shopping. Hope you find what you’re looking for soon. Bandit, Bug and all the rest are doing fine and send their love.
Teresa Morrow
Thank you Terry for sharing this with us!!
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