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The following is a true story about my beloved horse, Spring Thaw.
“Spring” is a 21 year old Appaloosa / TB gelding, who was my first “event” horse. Spring and I enjoyed several years of eventing at the lower levels from 1997 to 2004.
It was in the fall of 2004 that I noticed he seemed to fluctuate in and out of health and soundness, also he would have mood swings, after about a month of this erratic behavior I ran some blood tests and found that he had a high titer and antibody to Lyme Disease (August 2004).
At that time I had a conventional veterinarian who treated Spring with 100 Doxycycline pills per day for a total of 4 months, and God Bless this horse he ate these horrible tasting pills with each meal.
At the end of November 2004 we re-tested his blood and he still showed a high titer/ antibody to the disease. Physically Spring seemed to be doing better so based on the amount and length of time he was on the medications I chose to give his internal system a rest, I also admittedly did not understand at the time how this very tricky disease works and hides.
It wasn’t until February 2007 that the Lyme roared back with a vengeance. This time I could clearly see that Spring’s body was being ravaged by the disease: headaches, fever, lameness appearing everyday but in different areas, extreme irritability, and otherwise dull and motionless.
This was clearly NOT my horse – whom I know to be curious, playful, very stoic, cunning and full of life! He was asking for help ...
We pulled another blood test in February 2007 and it came back screaming high titer/ antibody for Lyme. For the following 21 days Spring received IV Tetracycline (2xs per day) and then following that we followed up with Doxycycline at 100 pills per day for one month.
Retested his blood in June of 2007 and the titer had come down a little bit and the antibody reading remained at “high”, in addition to this during the IV dosing we pulled a kidney panel and it came back low normal, making it not possible to treat with the IV for the length of time that would be needed to flush his system.
Over the summer months of 2007 I became quite frustrated watching him suffer in silence and knowing that to put him back on drugs would only jeopardize his kidney’s and not get rid of the lyme disease anyway.
I began to search for other healing modalities that could possibly save my baby, and this is when I called upon a renowned veterinarian known nationally and internationally for her incredible talent in alternative therapies such as as acupuncture, chiropractic and oxygen medicine on horses ... Dr. Judith Shoemaker, DVM who operates out of Nottingham, PA came to our rescue.
It was through Dr. Shoemaker that I learned about the incredible healing powers of oxygen medicine.. Spring was in her opinion classified as a “compromised, drug resistant, chronic Lyme disease horse” and recommended a treatment plan of ozone therapy.
We started the first intravenous dosage of medical oxygen in November 2007 and continued this at the rate of 3x’s per week for three months. In March 2007 we pulled a blood test to check in and the titer went down 23 points, antibodies went from high to moderate. So at this point I reduced treatments to be 2x’s per week and am still treating on that same schedule until we retest the blood in June 2007.
I realize that the blood tests will actually be somewhat confusing as the disease is exiting the body it will show up in the blood – so what I really am paying attention to in this case is the physical signs that I am seeing.
Since I began using oxygen medicine in November 2007, I have seen huge physical changes in this horse, they are listed below:
- Soundness: I “jog” him for soundness checks each time I see him and in the past 4 months he has been solidly sound. There were 2 times that he appeared to be un-even, not lame, but just not 100%
- Energy: Spring acts like he is 5 years old, he trots out to turn out in the morning and again on the way in for the evening, he runs around with the other horses (who really are 5 years old), and plays with them.
- Attitude: Spring is back to himself, curious, inquisitive, interested, never in a cranky mood, appetite is back, I can see him thinking again. He looks happy.
- Riding: I gave up ever riding this horse again in 2004, we became great ground buddies, mostly due to the fact that he was lame more than sound. One day in March I jumped on his back for a walk, since he has been so sound, and he took off with me – galloping all over the fields and bucking – when we finally stopped he seemed very pleased with himself. Granted riding this horse now will be for fun and not competition…but that is my true gift in this healing.
- Color of blood has moved from a murky very dark brown to a bright cherry red.
- Eyes were watering (especially the right one) and now they are nice and bright an dry.
I am convinced without a doubt that medical oxygen has saved my horse from Lyme disease infestation which would have inevitably taken him from me. I am very grateful to Dr. Shoemaker, Oxygen Medicine, and God for lining all this up for us.
I know that if it worked for my horse it would work on people as well, and it is stories like this that will help to raise the healing collective consciousness of the world and be able to escape the confines of traditional medicine when it fails. Please feel free to post this story.
Christianna E. Capra - NYC
www.springreinsofhope.com
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