Canine Problems:

The photo above is of our past girl Sarah. Sarah went totally and completely blind in her mid life She had SARD which is when the retinas suddenly accidentally detach. She was fine in the morning and in fact out chasing chipmunks in the back yard, but around noon she suddenly went blind and was in full panic. We immediately took her to our vet who said she could see her retinas floating within her eyes. The vet called a specialist who said that Sarah would be totally blind the rest of her life - nothing could be done. Dogs do not recover from detached retina and they believe it has something to do with high blood pressure. 

We did two things, one was post her condition on our blog site. The other was do some research on caring for blind dogs. We got aromatic oil to put on things so she would not bump into walls and door ways. The other was to put bubble wrap on just about everything so she wouldn't hurt herself. We also put a short leash on her so we could lead her around to orient herself. 

It was painful for us when she would think she knew where she was and go to jump up on the sofa and land on something else. In the meantime a very kind lady wrote us and told us her dog had the same thing and someone recommended bilberry which worked. I left immediately for town and bought a bottle of bilberry, After a couple weeks we noticed that Sarah was seeing again so back to the vet. Sure enough her sight was back and the vet and specialist were amazed calling it a true miracle which it was. 

There had been a lot of prayer said for Sarah and regardless of your faith belief her sight had been restored. It truly was a miracle! Neither our vet or the specialist had ever seen  SARD reversed and had no answer for it. 

We also had a fur family member who was deaf. Working with her we were able to communicate well and she lived a normal life. It never occurred to us to do anything but help our fur family members with their disability. It was the same with three of our family who had lost the use of their back legs. I would urge anyone  with a dog that has a disability to learn how to work with them so they can still have a full and useful life.