Back to the Mack

Mackerel, that is.

I realized it’s been a while since I’ve posted.  It’s been bumpy.  Sasha’s itchiness has gotten very intense again, so much so that about a week ago, she chewed a giant hole in the side of her hip within just a few minutes.  We got it all cleaned up, and two days later we turned our heads for two minutes and she ripped it all open again.  We had to cut the hair out of the area so the air could get to it and heal.  We bathed her and sprayed it a couple of times a day with GSE (grapefruit seed extract).  Within a few days, it looks much better.  The itchiness continues.  😦

The pustules on her belly have pretty much healed.  There is still some blackness there.  We’re still trying to spray it a couple of times a day with GSE, but to be honest, we seem to miss spraying more than we remember to do it.

The smell from the bacteria on her vulva comes and goes.  Some days are worse than others.  We try to spray that with the GSE too, but…

We spent some time talking with each other and with Dr. Parker about where she’s at and where she’s been, and analyzing what we’ve done along the way.  We all agreed to try repeating what we had done during the time that she showed the most improvement – prior to giving her the cipro.  So… she’s going back to eating whole raw mackerel, and adding probiotics, enzymes, immune boosters and rentone mixed in Answers raw goat’s milk.  We’re continuing the clay detox for another couple of weeks, we’re also continuing to add some coconut oil and GSE to her diet.  Dr. Parker is working on what remedy to use next…most likely Pulsatilla.

An interesting thing to note about her previously doing well on the mackerel… We’ve always been looking at foods based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and warming/cooling properties.  We know that she runs very hot, so we feed her only cooling (or neutral) foods.  TCM also looks at the concept of dampness vs dryness.  Without even meeting Sasha, a friend of mine who is a holistic health practitioner said that it sounded like her problem was a “damp heat” problem.  Mackerel is considered drying so it offsets dampness.  Perhaps this is why she did well on it.  We’ll see how it goes….

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