The last few weeks I have been in the uncomfortable position at times of forgetting to practice what I preach!
I had a hip replacement nearly a month ago, just before having the surgery, I found out that my beloved Meg needed surgery to mend a ruptured cruciate ligament. Vets, doctors, support staff all encouraged me to go ahead with the hip replacement and when I had recovered get Meg the surgery that she needed which is what I did.
Her surgery was in Geelong – 2.5 hours from where I live and I dropped her off in the morning and picked her up in the afternoon for the 2.5 hour trip home again. Strict instructions were that she needed to be kept in a crate for 8 weeks, she needed to be kept on a lead when taken outside to toilet, restricted from any other exercise and more.
If you know Meg, you know that she is a highly active animal who loves her independence and loves to run, loves people and becomes Ms Personality when anyone else is around.
Now imagine this beautiful athlete in horrendous pain, doozy from anesthesia and other drugs, restricted from excitedly greeting visitors, trapped in a small cage with a huge cone on her head.
She cried, she sobbed, she howled. And I would feel at the end of my tether and suddenly remember – you have all these skills and you know they work because they work on other people’s pets. I would give her Reiki and watch her nod off and go to sleep.
She cried, she sobbed, she howled and I would remember that I can communicate with animals and would try – I could not get much from her, but feel confident that she could feel my soothing words and love and she would relax and sleep for a bit.
She cried, she sobbed, she howled and I would remember all the other energy healing tools that I had up my sleeve. I know how well Scalar Wave treatment works, it is incredible, and sometimes I would do it and watch in awe as she settled. Sometimes, my own pain meant that I could not do it effectively, or at all,
Her frustration, and distress has resulted in several attacks on her ‘sister’ Daphne, luckily the one on her head kept them separate. It upsets me to see Daphne tiptoeing around her and frightened of Meg.
Today I got up at midnight to take her out for a wee and had the pleasure of walking around the yard under a huge moon, when she was ready, I brought her back in, she settled into her crate and slept until I got up this morning to start the feeding, walking to toilet, crate situation again and she was in good spirits.
We are nowhere near the end, but I have been reminded of much that I know, but escaped me in my own pain and stress.
- Giving the healing before it is at crisis level makes a huge difference. Neither Meg, nor I, nor healing could touch her when she was devastated and screaming with the indignity of a cage amongst significant pain.
- The person/family in the sick pet’s life probably needs healing too.
- Other pets in the sick pet’s life may need healing as well.
When you book a service with me, you can book one treatment, two at a discount and three at a bigger discount. In my mind that was for a pet who needed more than one treatment, but it is also available for the whole family and I am going to create some discounted family bookings. The healing will be much more effective when everyone is as calm and pain free as possible. My residual pain from my hip surgery made me less patient, less able to figure out in advance what was necessary for pet healing and to anticipate potential risks between Meg and Daphne.
It does us the world of good to have to put ourselves in our client’s shoes and evaluate what works and what needs adjusting. Get in touch to see how we can help your whole family when your pet is in distress!
