Success Stories - Gastric Ulcers
Tapping for Jack
Jack
is an 18.2 hand Shire.Heather has never met Jack or his owners. Here is
an e-mail dialogue between Heather and Jack’s Granny as Heather ,who
has successfully used EFT for her own horses, tries tapping for a horse
she has only seen a photo of.
16th December 2008
Heather Smiles: Jen tells me…you’ re struggling to get Jack well. Not
sure if I can help, but I would happy to do a bit of EFT surrogate
healing for him if you would like me to try? Could you send me a brief
history and some photos please? Heather
Jack’s Granny:
Clare has owned Jack for over 4 years now. From first owning him she
noticed occasionally a nasty smell from his nose. Every time anyone
else tried to smell it, it disappeared! He had Baytril and other
antibiotics, only for it to return again.
It
ended up that he needed a tooth out, it had infected his jawbone. He
was in the vets for almost 4 weeks, wasn’t put under full anaesthetic.
They tried to wiggle it loose, and then they made a hole in his face
and knocked it out! There was an enormous amount of puss, which had
gone into his sinuses. He had a sinus flush and came home.
He
went down suddenly with lammi, very frightening as he is an 18.2hh
Shire. I am sure it was toxin related though as never had it before and
not since.
Some
months later the smell came back again and they tried Bayril etc. He
ended up him going back in to have the sinuses flushed in Sept this
year.
When
he had been out the vets for a few weeks, he was very lethargic; head
hung low even walking in from field. Only a slight temp, then he
started pawing the ground. Got vet out again, he thought tumour,
ulcers, and colic.
Back
in the vets they did tests for peritonitis, worm burden that he didn’t
have, hepatitis C, x-rayed his head and neck. Everything clear apart
from when they did the gastro scope and ulcers showed up which were
moderate. 28 days of Gastro guard, back to vets for gastro scope, ulcers gone.
He
is on ulcer, immune and digestive herbs at the moment, but the smell
from the nose is back, just as before. EDT (Equine Dental Technician)
came out and can find nothing wrong with his teeth, checking carefully
where the tooth was removed from, no food/debris caught anywhere.
22nd December 2008
Heather Smiles
Well,
Gwen, I've spent an hour or so this afternoon, just tapping on the
teeth, lammi, ulcers.....so see if you think he's any different.
The things that came up were..
'feeling guilty for being a drain on his peoples energy'
'feeling that dying might be easier, but that he really wanted to get well'.
That he had a lot left to give his people
I
tapped for his ulcers last, and got it down (in comfort) from a 6 (out
of 10) to a 0, but then it went up when he thought about eating in his
stable. So I worked on that a bit, and had a big impression of a very
sleepy horse feeling like he could rest....
Heather’s notes:
From
my hand written notes of this session I’d noted that I had got rather
shivery, and hadn’t known whether I was just cold, or whether this was
some indication of an infection. Jack felt very tired and dispirited. I
put some positive words in ‘choosing to be well and recovering’ and
‘calm and peaceful’
Jack’s Granny
I
asked Clare how Jack seemed tonight when she came in from seeing to the
horses. She said he seemed more relaxed. Now she didn’t know I had been
emailing you, so coincidence or what?
I
have had the feeling he feels guilty too. Not said this to anyone, not
even Clare. Also I have had the feeling about him wanting/not wanting
to give up, in short better off dying. Could see it in his eyes the
other day too. He has been rather grumpy in the stable, ending up one
time that he actually bit Clare! This is not like Jack. I personally
think he is trying to tell us that he is not well again and asking in a
horsy way for us to help him.
Thanks Heather it is really appreciated.
28th December 2008
Heather Smiles
How’s things? done another couple of sessions and come up with
some more imput. How is Jack? I did some tapping Saturday and Sunday I
did a session where the feeling was that Jack was overwhelmed. Odd
feeling of the roof closing in and the walls...very odd! Really clear
sensations in my stomach and chest (quite scary!) and it was almost as
if there was just too much pressure???? Tapped that away, along with a
couple of other things, next morning I checked it again and it was much
less, but more in my chest and breathing.
Let me know if you feel there has been any change....
its
a bit odd, because although I logically felt like I should tap for the
physical sensations, all that kept coming to me were emotions....
Heather's notes:
Did
the first session whilst I was in the bath! Felt Jack was feeling
really bad because of the worry he caused his people, but whilst
tapping for this, suddenly realised that whether they worried or not
was out of his control. His folks worried
or not, and that was not his problem. Felt amazed and relived and quite excited by the thought!
Had
a sensation of purposeless. Almost in the absence of his guilt, what
else was there? I had a really strong feeling of being totally
overwhelmed, really odd sensation, and quite scary! Easily an 8 out of
ten, and mainly in my stomach, and felt really crowded. I presume,
after reading Gwen’s reply that it might have been to do with the
chiropractic treatment he was having at roughly the same time as I was
tapping. He would have been restrained, and a lot of the treatment
would involve ‘pressing’ on parts of his body – accompanied by some
discomfort. I tapped it down to a 2, and then tested by thinking of
people in his stable, horses getting too close etc but got no reaction,
and actually felt like I’d been politely told to ‘shut up now’ so I
stopped. Plus the bath water was getting cold!
The
following morning I checked the ‘overwhelmed’ sensation, nothing in my
stomach, but some constriction in my breathing and a tight chest.Tapped
for the heavy blue ball in my chest until it was tiny and translucent…
Could find no other issues to tap for.
Jack’s Granny
We had the McTimony/Chiropractor out to the horses on Saturday and
he had quite a bit wrong with him on back and neck. Lady said it was to
do with what had happened to him at the vets. He was very, very sore
though and this was around lunchtime. He was not a happy bunny when she
was seeing to him, but having said this, this is the first time he has
had anything really wrong with him, so totally new experience of pain
to make it better if you know what I mean for him. Not really noticed
much more difference though. Sorry.
Hasten to add all this was done in the stable!
Thanks
for still trying it is appreciated. Not had any more smells from his
nose though as yet, but if its like before it was very intermittent
then, so maybe means nothing.
28th January 2009
Heather Smiles:
Hi there, how's things? Just wondering how Jack was? If you could jot down anything that has improved or changed,
even if you don't think it was down to EFT, it would be useful.
Hope all is going well.
Jack’s Granny:
Jack is doing real well. Don’t know if I should have put that down, you know tempting fate and all that
Clare
started taking his temperature on 14th - it was 37.8 - 15th 37.7 - 16th
37.6 - 17th 37.5 - 18th 37.6. He has had no smell from the 14th to
present date. His behaviour is really good, no trying to nip Clare, no
grumpiness and the day before yesterday he was splashing/playing in a
puddle and the same today. He
has been playing with
Saintly as well over the fence, so quite a marked improvement. Oh, also
he is going right round the other side of the field to graze which he
wasn’t doing when the ulcers were playing him up. Have made a mental
note to watch out for that in the future. Have a gut feeling (know it
seems daft but,) just feel that if he feels unwell he wants to be
nearer Saintly and Daisy.
We did put him on thyroid
herbs for 7/10 days, but nothing else altered apart from the oats being
removed from his feed, which was a few weeks ago now.
He seems contented in the stable, even at the gate waiting to come in if the weather is bad, the big wuss.
25th February 2009
Jack’s Granny Jack
is doing real well, although I am still grabbing onto the wood at every
opportunity. Clare has started riding him again, all be it walking only
and he is really enjoying it. No more smell from the nose which is
brilliant, no more sign of pain or discomfort in the stomach. No more
mardiness either. Cant thank you enough for your help Heather, we
really, really appreciate it. Whatever it was you did!
Just
HAD to add this. I have only just realised that I have had no pain
under my eyes (sinus) either for the last few weeks. Wonder if it is
connected, although I am not Jacks owner, Clare is. Makes you wonder,
doesnt it?
Heather's notes.
I
really feel that Gwen's sinus problems are connected to Jacks problems,
despite the fact that Jack actually belongs to her daughter, Claire.
Our animals problems often mirror our own, and vice versa, there is a
clear correlation between our own problems and the problems of our
animals. This makes EFT even more exciting, as tapping for our horses
can directly improve our own health.