Herbiestein & Steak

I went for my 2nd acupucture treatment on Saturday, and Scuba came along for his treatment as well. This time, I had a LOT more needles poked into me, and my M said I look like frankenstein.

5 on the head...


Countless on the body...


some on my leg...


And guess where they put the last needle??!!?

Above my butt!!!


Of all places!! Apparently the vet said that that is the acupoint for bowel movements, and since I've been having loose/ soft stools recently, this is supposed to help. I tell you, a dog has NO privacy at all!

On top of it, the vet put on some mild electric current to stimulate the acupoints. I look even more like frankenstein now with all those wires. I'm just glad that he did not try to electrocute my butt.

Herbie-stein


Remember what Helios said about the needle being fine at the other end? Here's a close up pic of it.



The vet, who actually does acupuncture for humans, and studied acupuncture for animals as an interest, asked my M if she's ever done acupucture before, and offered to let her try to see if it's painful. So my M bravely agreed to try one needle. If one is brave, I'm a heroic dog with the amount of needles poked in me! She should try getting one at her butt too!

Only on the hand?!?


Scuba tried acupuncture too but that scardey dog screamed when the first needle went in, scaring the hell out of the vet.

Arrghhhgghhhhhh!!!!


He also managed to shake off a few needles, so that screaming baby got a lot less needles than me.

Only 4??!!?


Oh... remember that I overheard my M saying something about steak? She kept her promise! I had steak, and other stuff for dinner that night.

Sizzling steak with garlic


With pan-fried fish in herbs and lemon


and sauteed mushrooms in butter


The end product... with salad


And of course, we had to take picture with the food before we can eat it. You can see Helios was quite upset that he can't dig in immediately. As for me, I'm pretty happy that I'm gonna have a fantastic dinner soon!

Helios: Why can't I eat now???


Finally after a few shots, we were given the 'okay'.

Bon appetite


Yummy!


And silly Helios thought that I would leave crumbs for him. He just had to double check my bowl. I tell you, we licked it so clean that I could have told my M not to bother with washing the bowls.

Check out the clean bowls!



On a side note, I'm removing my stitches on Thursday, so my M will check with the vet if I need any medication for the infection, since right now I'm not on any 'western' medication. However, the TCM vet did give me some herbs which will boost my immunity and reduce the size of the swelling lymph nodes. I've just started on them yesterday and I think it'll take some time to take effect. And the herbs are not cheap either!

More updates later~