Yesterday I had a bit of a baffling experience and would appreciate any feedback.
Yesterday I took a 1 1/2 hr. drive to a Holistic Pet Care place just south of Nashville. The reason being that my dog Charlie was diagnosed here by my local vet with chronic ehrlichia infection about 7 weeks ago. Vet had Charlie on doxycycline for 1 month and then declared treatment was done and that Charlie would not recover. Charlie went lame and is still partially lame and he's not even 6 yrs. old yet!! The vet has written him off to a slow death and there's nothing else he can do.
This was devastating news for me as I live alone and Charlie is my best friend and companion and I cannot accept that he is going to die at such a young age.
So I sought out this Holistic place and after 2 longish phone calls I decided to make the trip up there. I was instructed to bring Charlie's DNA (in the form of cheek swabs and hair follicle samples). I was told they had treated many cases of ehrlichia infections in cats and dogs AND people and they had high hopes for a full recovery with Charlie.
I was there for a couple hours while they did the DNA testing and some allergy testing. After discussing results I was sent home with a few herbal antibiotics and many herbal anti-inflammatories and a whole host of other immune support herbals.
Now comes the interesting part. In 3-4 weeks time from now they will revisit and test again the same DNA samples that I gave them yesterday which they keep on file there in the office. And in this re-testing they will be able to see changes in Charlie's DNA and see how he is progressing in healing and if any of the meds can be dropped or doseages changed. So no need to bring in new DNA samples because all of this can be determined through the original samples.
I asked her how that was possible and she said that his DNA is connected to Charlie wherever he is (like through the information field) and that she doesn't know how to explain it but his original DNA will change as Charlie heals and gets better and it will show in the DNA samples I have already provided so no need to bring new ones.
Now I have never heard of this kind of thing before and I'd love to believe this is true. But I question it seriously and hope I'm not being led down the garden path so to speak. I would appreciate any or all your thoughts on this situation and especially anyone's experience with chronic ehrlichia infection in their pets. And maybe some vet folks could chime in on this DNA approach to healing.
Thanks a bunch for reading if you've gotten this far!
Yesterday I took a 1 1/2 hr. drive to a Holistic Pet Care place just south of Nashville. The reason being that my dog Charlie was diagnosed here by my local vet with chronic ehrlichia infection about 7 weeks ago. Vet had Charlie on doxycycline for 1 month and then declared treatment was done and that Charlie would not recover. Charlie went lame and is still partially lame and he's not even 6 yrs. old yet!! The vet has written him off to a slow death and there's nothing else he can do.
This was devastating news for me as I live alone and Charlie is my best friend and companion and I cannot accept that he is going to die at such a young age.
So I sought out this Holistic place and after 2 longish phone calls I decided to make the trip up there. I was instructed to bring Charlie's DNA (in the form of cheek swabs and hair follicle samples). I was told they had treated many cases of ehrlichia infections in cats and dogs AND people and they had high hopes for a full recovery with Charlie.
I was there for a couple hours while they did the DNA testing and some allergy testing. After discussing results I was sent home with a few herbal antibiotics and many herbal anti-inflammatories and a whole host of other immune support herbals.
Now comes the interesting part. In 3-4 weeks time from now they will revisit and test again the same DNA samples that I gave them yesterday which they keep on file there in the office. And in this re-testing they will be able to see changes in Charlie's DNA and see how he is progressing in healing and if any of the meds can be dropped or doseages changed. So no need to bring in new DNA samples because all of this can be determined through the original samples.
I asked her how that was possible and she said that his DNA is connected to Charlie wherever he is (like through the information field) and that she doesn't know how to explain it but his original DNA will change as Charlie heals and gets better and it will show in the DNA samples I have already provided so no need to bring new ones.
Now I have never heard of this kind of thing before and I'd love to believe this is true. But I question it seriously and hope I'm not being led down the garden path so to speak. I would appreciate any or all your thoughts on this situation and especially anyone's experience with chronic ehrlichia infection in their pets. And maybe some vet folks could chime in on this DNA approach to healing.
Thanks a bunch for reading if you've gotten this far!