Moving to Canada made me feel like starting a new life. With a clean slate ahead, my wife and I got a job, rented an apartment and adopted a rescue a year-old kitten.
The was found by one of my friends and co-workers, scared and hiding behind a garbage bin on a cold, rainy winter night.
Originally, she resided at the veterinary clinic and held the role of front desk concierge. Everyone loved her. However when Christmas came, the kennels were full of boarding pets and my boss decided that she should reside in the washroom so as not to trigger the clinic alarm system.
As soon as I imagined her spending the holidays locked in the washroom the decision was made. Mina came home with me for Xmas and never left. We successfully concealed her presence from the landlord for more than four years.
When she was taken away from her clinic concierge job, she spent most of her days on my desk supervising my licensing exam studies. Sometimes I joke that I passed the exams thanks to my cat.
Perhaps she knew that later on, she could use my help when diagnosed with hyperthyroidism.
Mina was a great teacher. She was the pet who "introduced" me to a raw diet and has taken me through the transition of opening my mind to holistic healing. She also taught me that most cats do not like to have their picture taken, finding the eye of my lens to intrusive to her private self.
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Initially, I did all I was taught at vet school: vaccinated her, fed her processed food. When she was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism at 8 years old, I started to feel that if the previous methods couldn't prevent her from getting sick, I would have to find a more natural approach to healing. She was one of the reasons I began to research homeopathy: I conducted a study proving that hyperthyroidism can be treated by purely holistic methods.
Now, at the age of 17 years old, Mina's thyroid values are still normal and some people find it hard to believe that her main treatment was a homeopathic preparation of Natrum Muriaticum - a latin name for simple Sodium Chloride - table salt. Considering that conventional treatments included Methimazole, a drug causing liver toxicity or surgical removal of the thyroid gland (which can be life threatening) homeopathic treatment deserves further attention.
Another interesting thing was that when I inquired about the life history of hyperthyroid cats, almost all of them had been abandoned at early age. From the homeopathic point of view, Natrum muriaticum is a chief remedy for abandonment by the mother and absence of early care and support.
Today, Mina has retired from her head position as guard cat (she would not let any other cats in the house) and enjoys a nice, comfortable life. Unlike Skai with his half-share of a house in Maui, she got a little place with a fenced-in yard on a quiet street in North Vancouver, British Columbia.
She loves hanging out in the garden or sitting on the computer desk. When she was younger, she used to have a penthouse up on the kitchen cabinets, however as a wise senior, she recently moved to the ground level and has her own chair.
We love her dearly and hope that she will continue being in good health and spirit.
