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Candy, with 23 years experience and you look 28... Your hired

 
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Candy, with 23 years experience and you look 28... Your hired but keep in mind the last 12 got fired. Please think outside the box. I am a good person, love my dog, and we just dont deserve this. Wednesday we go smoke blown up our buts at uc davis and monday were going back to deal with the chief veterinarian and we are praying she will help. Only a few people in my whole world believe me and i am not tripping. I hate my world right now and its been going on for four months. Let me make it short and sweet as possible. I do not want any medical advice for me and if you suggest i do i will let you go. Just hear the story. My little japanese chin and i live in truckee where there are no parasites so i did not have her protected for worms. Ignorance on my part. We went hiking in oakland where the black legged tick that carries lime disease lives. We both got ticks attached to us and we both got fleas. We got both and it was undescibably awful. What they say about them attaching like concrete is true. I had to surgically remove them from my sweet girls neck and it killed me. Also on the hike my girl was so upset and i was such a dick. Anyways i was basically laying on damp soil tanning filthy dirty and sweaty for hours. This area was so remote nothing but raccoons could have lived there and maybe a few hikers with dogs could have come through but very rare. At some point during the day i felt this penetrating sensation on the front right side of my hairline on my forehead. But to my surprise nothing was there. Itching like crazy. Now 4 months later still itching major hair loss and tons of clear slimy liquid coming out. These larvae are migrating thru my entire body and my eyes. I dont like sharing this but i passed a bunch of them last week and the toxin turned my ass inside out. With a mirror i could see them impacted in my roids and painfully removed them with a qtip. Now my dog. First signs after ticks and fleas were gone was her desperately pawing her ears looked for month with high powered mag glass with super bright leds on it. Nothing. Vets looked too. Next was her gorgeous coat. Gone. All rough and scaley. Next her ass. All greasy infected and puckered. All along her stool looked different. Like digested worms. Last week vet tec said her anal gland was ruptured. She acts retarded now and sometimes is frightened and does not recognize me. Just like the animals with raccoon roundworms i see on google. Her eyes? Not mucos! Migrating larvae more per day as this continues. How do i know since im sure u dont believe me? I see them in the magnifying glass. They all are similar like an embryo. Not only that they just suddenly appear and she paws wildly because they burn. Not to mention i have always been healthy active and tough as hell with full chest and ribs tattered. Last 4 months? Beat down. Larvae coming out my nose daily and these are larvae not bugars. My mental health? I lost it last week calling and confronting the whole town my house and us had raccoon roundworms. The whole town thinks im crazy. I spent my whole savings and my house is next. Oh and i lost my eyesight and it was from the larvae burning them. Dewormers? We tried it. Everything and more. You name it my dog took it. And i already know about sterilization, seperation, and recontamination. I also know medicine is not effective for travelling larvae. This is ruining our bodies and deteriating our brains, the stool tests? All negative. They are not laying eggs that go in our stool they are reproducing in us. The coughing she does? Imagine the stickist substance you can think of stuck in her lungs, her finally choking it up, but just far enough to reswallow it and cake her botXXXXX XXXXXp with it. Are you getting the picture? No! Not allergies and not post flea bite reaction. Not lime disease. Next im trying dr floras for me in double dose even though it does not mention treating the migration and if uc davis wont get their heads out i am taking her to a natural medicine vet. Ex rays for sure too. Please confirm i have some real obvious signs detected for my dogs zoonotic disease. I didnt make this crap up. Also i want any and all your input so i can bring it with me to uc davis monday. What is that tick panel even though i dont think thats it? Also lime disease blood smear test but dont think that is it either. Oh and lastly she been having shortness of breath and no energy, i really think that she is just too infested to recover and i am so sad. They would not use some type of scanning tool and that other tool that injects in the body to remove them would they? I dont even think they will use it on me because it costs too much. I read all about the chancellor at each university has to report to the tresurer. Please help us Candy. This is not cool. All i have is my dog. Thats it one dog and her treatment comes before mine.

 

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Type of Animal: quest for candy only
Pet's Gender: Female
Pet's Age: 8
Name of Dog: snappy

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Submitted: 402 days and 20 hours ago.
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Expert:  Candy replied402 days and 19 hours ago.

Hello,. Please give me just a little time to review everything in this post as well as previous posts so I can get more familiar with everything you have done so far.

While I am doing this can you please tell me what tests have been done at the vets and what were the results?

Have they done x rays or a tracheal wash?

Have you seen any specialists if so which ones and what has their opinion been?

Have any of your doctors been able to find parasites in you, I only ask this so I can better help your dog I do not think you are asking for help with yourself.

Customer replied402 days and 19 hours ago.

Ofcourse. Im to the point of grasping at thin air. Desperately. Come through and i will adopt 2 of the sickest cats at your choice of pound and i will ask you questions till they are fat and lazy. Swear i will. Tests? Oakland when this first started stool neg. Bloodwork/ thyroid all good. Truckee heartgaurd after the fact pill. Truckee 6 teeth pullee and trial diet to rule out allergies (what a joke) exrays trachea wash never just lots of listening specialists? Was supposed to get a reccomendation for an animal parisitoligist at davis last week but i think the nice gal at the vets office did not specify but she will on monday she is real nice. She even had me bring pathology sample from me to them to look at and i feel like such a freak. No nobody has found anything from me. But nobody knows what they are doing like wrong speciman containers that dont detect guara and the larvae one used alcohol and the other saleen and it was sposed to b fermaldihyde. Everyone is self qualified to charge me but not qualified for the job. Like hiring a carpenter to develop computer software. And the 2 internal medicine doctors they called every hospital i went to before i got there, did not tell me but just laughed off all my inteligent evidence and at the very end, and dont u lose faith in me Candy, played the one card they had been holding that i had done a tiny line a few days before one of the inititial hospital visits that i gave a urine sample to and came up with trace evidence of meth. So primary diagnosis delusions of grandeur. Not it! Thats like telling a lady today if she didnt smoke pot she would not have breast cancer. So wrong. I even got the manager of animal control where i live backing me up. And nevada county health official. I a great guy and dont want other animals and people to go through this. I care. I am a person that would rather give than take

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Expert:  Candy replied402 days and 18 hours ago.

Ok.

Now please understand you are asking me to do something over the internet that multiple doctors could not do in person so in no way can I give a positive diagnosis.
What I can do is give you my thoughts and try to help direct you.One good thing is I am very comfortable thinking out of the box.

One thing you may want to look into is a condition called Morgellons Disease. This is a parasite infection that causes "fibers" to come out of skin lesions - the fibers themselves are alive. There is on going research being done by the CDC on this in humans , however it seems that many people with this disease also report problems in their pets. Many doctors and most vets have never even heard of this so I would read up on it before asking about it .
Below is an article that covers this in detail as well as some other uncommon parasites.
Click here
Here is an article where pet owners discuss this problem in their pets.
Click here
OSU may still be conducting a study on this in animals
Click here
Here is a discussion board for the Morgellons Disease research foundation.
Click here

Some things that I think should be considered

* Consult with a parasitologist. The symptoms you have described with the dog are not consistent with a parasite that we would commonly see. I can tell you where I live we have a problem with raccoon round worms so we see this often and I do not think this is raccoon roundworms.. Some of the things going on with your dog would be consistent with allergies. I can tell you that with certainty as this is one of my areas of interest. I am only saying that not because I think this has anything to do with the worms but so you know that the vet was not pulling things out of his hat when they suggested this.

* X rays and a Tracheal wash. I would get x rays to look at the heart and lungs. The tracheal wash will allow them to remove some of the sticky substance you say she is coughing up to send to the lab for analysis, this will also allow then to test for any parasites, eggs or cycts.

* Stool sample to the lab. Many worms like hookworms shed intermittently so one sample could be neg while the next is positive. 3 consecutive samples should be sent out 3-4 days apart.Deworming only kills adult worms so 3 deworming 3 weeks apart would be recommended.

* Soil and water testing. You would have to call your local county office to see who would do this in your area. I would have soil samples from 3-4 areas of the yard done as well as the water tested for any parasites eggs or cysts.


* Scoping the colon. Scoping the colon will allow them to take a small tissue sample as well as look for any signs of parasites attached to the tissue.


I hope this has given you some additional things to consider. Please keep me posted on how things are going
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