My Dream Job: Caretaker For Animals in Nova Gaia

Animals are angels

Animals are very high Vibration.
They have a direct connection to Source at all times.
Just like the angels are connected to The Divine.

Animals embody the wisdom, 'Live a good life, learn, and go Home.'

Although Native Americans eat meat, they call the animals Brothers  and Teachers. The Shamans are well-versed in the lessons that each animal has to offer to help us grow in heart.

No matter what your view on animals in captivity, please hear me out.

Thank you.

Is this the original plan--humans helping plants and animals?

I say YES

I say we are 'heading in that direction'

And here's proof

This zoologist is studying the Siberian Tiger in the wild.

This man is testing deer for tuberculosis.

This zookeeper is tending to the feet of an elephant.

UCSD takes care of many patients from the San Diego Zoo.

( I support the zoo. I used to study there, on their student pass.) 

My professor, greeny, stayed up three days and nights taking care of a baby orangutan that had a blood transfusion reaction after open heart surgery. It's the big one now on display. 

On February 6, 2002, greeny made my dreams come true--I got to help him give anesthesia to the panda Bai Yun. It was the best day of my career, and she is my favorite patient!

The zoo thanks UCSD medical staff by hosting a Photo Safari Caravan in the spring.

I have fed a giraffe. The head is fifty pounds, and if it gets in the truck it can hurt you.

So you hold the acacia leaves out far when you feed.

I could feed them all day.

If you see a giraffe on any San Diego Zoo publication, look closely at the spots on the neck--

one has a shape of a perfect heart, it's mid-neck. They always use her photo.

I support the Pacific Marine Mammal Center.

It's a rescue for sick and injured seals and sea lions.

My Christmas gift from Santa was buying them medicines for one week.

My lifestyle is organic and cruelty-free.

I pay extra to support those who work with the land and respect Nature.

I educate my boy about animals and took him to see Jack Hanna.

As Jack autographed the two-year old's favorite plastic hippo, he commented,

'This is nice! Where did you get it?'

My boy said, simply, 'At Target.'

Jack laughed and posed for a picture. It was precious!

How could we care for our beloved Fur Babies,

without the working knowledge of zoologists, zookeepers, ranchers, dairy farmers, marine biologists, and veterinarians? (Not that I am for animal testing in any way--I was a returning student to medical school because I did not wish to do any research as a biology major that would kill animals. My friend got into UCSF on pituitary research--he had to decapitate turtles for the research. I couldnt' do it.)

Medicine for humans owes a great debt to animals too.

My friend in medical school, a devout Hindu and vegan, said I was cruel for keeping my pets and not letting them be free. He said it was cruel and not fair to the animals, any of them, even dogs and cats.

He was right.

And yet, I told him, 'I love my pets!' and I kept them. I couldn't explain why, but I valued the connection, and silently prayed that God would forgive me for not being able to let them go.

I've had the turtle over twenty years, and wrote a poem about her that got put into the Literary Journal of the School of Medicine.

Animals ARE my heroes. They are incredible teachers and friends. Their physiology is fascinating! Did you know that fish and frogs have only three chambers in their hearts? (mammals and birds have four).  Birds also have hollow lightweight bones and air sacs (like a dual chambered lung) to support flight? How it happens is way cool to me as a physician. 

But for now, no matter how you feel about animals in captivity, will you agree, just for today:

• to spay and neuter your pets to avoid unwanted animals
• to adopt a pet to save it from being euthanized at the shelter when you want a new pet.
• to express kindness, love, and compassion in all of your interactions with animals
• to support organizations that heal animals.
• to pray for our angels with fur, feathers, and scales, for All Divine Assistance.
• to do everything possible to avoid further pollution and destruction of natural habitat.
• to respect animals as our brothers and friends, and learn lessons from them all.

Aloha and Mahalos,

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

"Are You My Nurse?"

We are on the brink of a new era in the Healing Arts

This morning in the call room, I was chatting away with the housekeeping lady in Spanish. There were a lot of babies born last night, and she wanted to know how many were girls and were boys. We were talking like old friends, when she stopped. After thinking carefully, she asked me in a whisper, 'Are you a NURSE or something?"

I smiled. Here she was changing the 'Doctor's Sleep Room' sheets and she had no clue about me!
No...I am a doctor.... and I looked her in the eye and kept smiling.

"Wow! All that work, and everything!" she exclaimed.

I laughed inwardly. Many female physicians are mistaken for nurses. I have experienced this all the way through my career. I used to call my mother and complain about it to her. Want to know what she said? She said, 'People think that nurses are pretty and kind. Think of it as a complement!"

I haven't had a problem with it since.

Today, I was watching 'cooking class' at my kid's school. I was in scrubs, because I had been up all night doing epidurals and anesthesia for cesarean sections. Sasha came up to me and asked, 'Are you a hospital lady?'

I said, yes, indeed, I was.

Another girl asked, 'Are you a veterinarian? I thought you worked at my vet's office? (pointing to the scrubs)'

I laughed, and shared that I had wanted to be a veterinarian, but I am terribly allergic to cats, so I take care of people instead.

"Do you help people?"

Then my son piped up, "Help people? She takes care of people who are so sick they are half dead! And last night? She took care of somebody who was having a baby who was not much older than us! Can you imagine that?"

She nodded in agreement. "That is too young."

One the way home I thought about it.

It's my aura.

That is what people are reacting to, when they think I am a nurse. They go by my sex--female--by my profession--healer--and my demeanor--friendly. But it is the aura , the part of me that 'touches' them without saying a word, the one that is so high energy, that makes them come to the conclusion 'nurse'.

Doctors have 'heavy auras'. Wouldn't you agree? They are learned, professional, serious, and very worldly. They drive Mercedes and live in a big house and are rich... My vibration is not 'like' theirs. Not at this time. But I am working on it! I am doing everything I can to wake everybody in Medicine up!

You know, the Vortex I set up in the Doctor's Dining Room is still there! I was wondering at conference yesterday (we have a lecture for CME credits every week)--why everyone was so peaceful and so attentive and why hardly any beepers were going off. It was different! I had forgotten about the Vortex of Light I had opened about three weeks ago. It was when I was in there alone first thing this morning, making my cup of Fog Chaser coffee in the Keurig that I noticed it again, and I KNEW.

Remember, the aura is the key to making changes in medicine. There is no 'defense' against a happy, healthy, energetically vibrant aura. Whether you are the doctor, the nurse, or the patient, in you are in a hospital or office, crank it up! Crank up the energy YOU bring to the healing environment.

It will raise it. It is enough. Remember, when there are new treatments, or new medications, they just slip right in to Medical Practice. It is very rare to 'leave one thing for another across the board', but it often 'just trickles in'. Ask your Angels, Guides, and Deceased Loved Ones to help you make a difference through you no matter where you are in the 'healing paradigm'.  It is hard to stay asleep when someone turns on the light! Shine brightly--wherever you are...

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

Taking Care of The Sick: A Story of Three Blind Mice

This is Three Blind Mice. I bought her to feed the snake. At the time, I didn't know if it was a she or a he.

I socialized her. I spared her. Because of her one eye. I have written about her, I know. But she is sick.

I bought for her a hamster ball. Last time I put her in it, her foot got caught. I loosed it, but now it is infected. Bumblefoot, or pododermatitis. She needs a vet right away.

Her stomach is gargantuan. That's why I think she is pregnant, and therefore, a she. Most rats are mixed together in shipping and at the pet store where they are raised to feed reptiles. That's where she is from. I got to know her, and I couldn't feed her to Cecil the ball python. I bought another.

A coworker at the O.R. is an animal lover. Her daughter's boyfriend is a rat rescue person. She said Three Blind Mice would be lonely, as rats are social. So I bought two week's worth of food for the snake, and let them room in with Three Blind Mice. She didn't know the difference, that they were coming and going.

What I didn't know is Rat 101: they are often pregnant AT THE PET STORE. Pet stores sex them wrong. Your She may be a He after all. And they often are infected with a lung disease that is contageous only to rats, but will lead to heart failure and death.

Rats can get pregnant immediately after giving birth. But rat dads are helpful, supposedly. The trick with rats is to get them fixed. But I didn't know. So there are twelve to twenty babies coming in a rat just on the verge of sepsis.

Do I Reiki?

No. I do more. I take them to the vet. Even if it is expensive. Even if the treatment might not work. 

And I separate the mom away from the others. To a maternity cage.

This did not come easy. I sat there for a moment, thinking about the worth of a four-dollar rat. One that is meant for snake food. I learned about myself, and who I am. And about compassion.  I researched bumblefoot and pregnancy in my Rat guidebook and on the internet. I am a doctor. I help those in suffering. What else is there to do?

The man with the finger partial amputation at the pet store, the reptile one, said, 'If I had known about rats I probably would have gotten into them. They are pretty neat.'

Which leads me to believe, I must double check how I think about animals in general. And about what I eat. And what kind of person I am. There is a lot to be said for the vegetarian lifestyle. And for kindness to animals in general.

Namaste,

Reiki Doc