my belly hurts

how IBD complications led me to the best cure that works for humans too

Sometimes my belly gets upset.

It’s been happening since I was a little puppy where suddenly I’d throw up or poop yuckies for days. It got so bad in late 2019 that within a few months, I lost almost 1/2 my body weight and the yuckies were full of blood.

Mama took me to the doctors and they did a procedure where they put a camera in me to see into my belly. They said I had advanced Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).

I don’t know what “disease” means about how I’m supposed to live my life, so I kept playing and eating and loving adventures. But it was a lot harder because I didn’t have the strength to jump super high or do zoomies for miles anymore. And I stopped absorbing the nutrients from my food so I was like a skeleton.

this was April 2020 when I felt really sick all the time.

I was sad a lot. So was mama. We both knew I was deciding if I wanted to keep staying on earth, because it’s not fun to be in so much pain all the time and have to take all kinds of weird medicines and then get sick from them and then take all other kinds of medicines to treat the side effects of the first medicines.

But mama kept making each day as fun as possible. We went on daily 1-hour long hikes through the Malibu mountains no matter how sick I was. We layed in the grass together watching birds play and flowers grow. We met lots of new people and pups. I watched mama make me fresh food from the yummies she got at the farmers market.

And we traveled to all kinds of fun new places and stayed at so many different homes it was a great adventure (like in this video where I was rolling around in the grass to try on my new perfume— mama said it was gross dead bugs but I loved it)!

But you know what helped me the most?

Love.

Mama gave me special massages to help my belly cramps loosen up. She even did funny things like take me to reiki and crystal healing sessions with a really nice lady named Heather. The sessions helped my mama feel better which made me feel better so maybe they worked!

Each time my belly hurt or I threw up yuckies, mama would say “great job taking out the trash!” Dr. Palmquist, our favorite doctor, told her to say that so I’d feel like it was no big deal to throw up and that I was doing something good. Again, it helped my mama feel better which made me feel better so maybe it worked!

mama and me at a crystal and sound healing session with Heather

Every single day when I woke up, mama would tell me she loved me and thanked me for choosing to spend a new day with her...she still does this and has never missed a day in all these years.

She’d sing to me on our walks or while holding me in her arms when I was achy. When my eyes looked sad, she’d do that funny reiki thing over my body and end with a loud clap and then I’d jump up and want to play.

There were lots of times when she was crying and doing these things, or when she didn’t do them consistently because she was distracted. But she always did it with love. And I could feel her love so much because love is the way I communicate with the world.

It was like getting a dose of her pure love energy was more potent than anything that comes in a prescription bottle. But I’m not one of those “doctors” humans call the people they listen to, so that’s just my pup opinion.

But here’s what I do know to be true:

Love is the energy from which all of existence is created.

Love reveals truth and the truth is always based in love.

And, love heals.

this is 4 months after the worst, when I decided to stay on earth for more adventures with mama

The past few days my belly’s been upset. But not like before where it’d hurt so bad I didn’t want to move. This morning I wanted to play catch so we did that and then I threw up yuckies. Mama said, “Hooray for taking out the trash! Now let’s get you some yummy slippery elm.”

She made me the slippery elm drink and it felt so good in my irritated belly. She then cooked me a special breakfast and I ate it up super fast and then went over to thank her for the yummies. She did her special reiki thing over my body as she thanked my body for “digesting the food effortlessly and bringing health and ease and restoration to all parts of my being.”

And then I decided to write this Lovenote to you so that anytime your belly hurts, you’ll remember to get a good dose of love in you. Whether you do it by thanking your body for being the best, healthiest vessel to hold all your love or you sip some yummy drink to soothe your insides, when you do it with love, love will heal.

I love you.

🐾 Lovebug

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