Treating Canine Abscess Healed With Essential Oils

My dog Buckaroo Banzai is a 7 year old Standard Poodle or some people may call him a Royal Poodle because he is 75 pounds of Poodle fun.

I found a golf ball sized fluid filled (I assumed) abscess under the skin on his back, between his withers.  I toyed with the idea of taking him to the vet but held back because I had purchased an essential oil book, Animal Desk Reference Book by Melissa Shelton, DVM…..so I did a bit of research and decided I would try out the recommendation from the book and since I am a Young Living Oils distributor and use them for myself and my family…..why would the dog be any different?

I treated it for about 2 weeks with frankincense oil and thieves oil spray, applied morning and evening.  I would gently massage the oil above and around the abscess.  For several days I didn’t see any changes and I thought that if it would get worse, we would go to the vet….I call it my “spidy sense” when I know I need to take urgent action.  

Not long after that, I started to think that it was shrinking or changing and had wished that I can used calipers to measure it before I had started applying the oils.  My sense was that it didn't seem to be as firm or as solid as before. Dang, I wish now that I had applied a little more scientific  discipline to this.

I kept treating and then I started to feel some scabbing on the skin above the abscess.  I rechecked the book and these oils can be put directly on the skin (called neat) without diluting with a carrier oil.  I backed off treating to once per day and the scabbing got thicker and broader.

Our neighbors have pets and got us into Young Living Oils and they were sitting on our deck and I asked for their opinion of Buckaroo’s back.  They both thought that the scabbing was the fluid from the abscess bubbling to the surface.  Which makes perfect sense that the body would either absorb or eliminate the fluid in some way and the scabbing was like dried yellowish pus.

Today, I trimmed away the hair and bathed the area to clean it up and found a little redness but otherwise I was very pleased with what I saw and felt in the area. 

I hope this helps you as well.

We have a friend who is on the road....of self discovery

My husband wrote this to a friend who is in her early 50's and she is on a "walk about", a kind of mid life re-defining of who she is.....now.  I thought it spoke so much about our journey and how we can share where we have been to others who are on a similar place on their journey...perhaps a bit of a "Hero's Journey". 

We tease her a bit that she is out finding herself and she mentioned a saying that resonated with her, "Where ever you go, there you are." ...from one of my favorite movies......

The line is from Buckaroo Banzai…should rent the movie sometime if you haven’t seen it.  ET’s, 8^th dimension, etc… Note it was made in 1984
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!, often shortened to Buckaroo Banzai, is a 1984 science fiction film. It was directed and produced by W. D. Richter, and concerns the efforts of the multi-talented Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, a physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot, and rock musician, to save the world by defeating a band of inter-dimensional aliens called Red Lectroids from Planet 10. The film is a cross between the action/adventure and sci-fi film genres, and also includes elements of comedy, satire, and romance.^[3]

Here should be the scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv_jkju_iZg

Apparently there is a book from 1994, ten years later, http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wherever-you-go-there-you-are-jon-kabat-zinn/1102636030?ean=9781401307783

Here is another interesting take on it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ed-and-deb-shapiro/wherever-you-go-there-you-are_b_858112.html

Anyway…what I was trying to say is it’s about finding and being happy ... being you.  The location really doesn’t matter because “you” are always there with yourself.  Being out of the old makes it seems better, when really what it might do is remove the old that is blocking your view. The old cant see the forest for the trees thing.

Remember The Four Agreements…he talks about how we all live in our own world, our perceived world…he called it a “dream”. And no one else is living your dream. They are living theirs, beside and with you but not in yours. 

Found this quote…“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. -- The Buddha

Enjoy the Journey…and at the end maybe you can use the Grateful Dead famous lyrics, the line from "Truckin'":

Lately it occurs to me: What a long, strange trip it's been.