Merlin, Indeed in the interest of "self-disclosure," in all of my posts anyone could have seen from my sign-off at any time that I work with Tower Laboratories, a nutriceutical manufacturer whose Pauling therapy vitamin C/lysine protocol has been saving lives from heart disease for the past 14 years. I have made no attempt to hide that fact, though perhaps doing so might have made me seem more like one of you and less like I was trying to "sell" you something. However, despite what I do to support my family and my rescue, I am certainly not paid to spend time posting here about the successes I have seen with intravenous ascorbate in my cat rescue and answering e-mail questions gratis after my 12-hour work days in an effort to help others save animals. My company does not even sell vitamin C for animals and I have never once offered to sell anything to anyone here, so to accuse me of "selling snake oil and preying on people's love of their pets" borders on libel. There is no "ulterior sales motive" here - I am simply trying to help. I am also, as you accurately point out, a published contributing author, and if memory serves, this is the first time I have ever been publicly chastised for sharing information in the interest of helping animals. Perhaps it is really true that people do not value the things they get for free.
I first posted my experience with vitamin C here because I love animals and people and want to see these cats have a chance of survival and yes, help their owners to have "hope" where there would otherwise seem none. It would have been self-serving not to, or to disseminate the information for profit, as many might have. After all, there aren't many options for saving these cats and it seemed to me that some might actually appreciate and find my experience useful. I truly did not expect such a firestorm of skepticism and negativity and I am beginning to regret my initial decision to share at all, though thankfully there have been some to embrace and implement what I have shared, and for them and hopefully many others to follow in our footsteps, it was worth it. The fact that I work in this field affords me knowledge that others may not have - others who are still looking for some of the answers that I have been fortunate enough to discover. I have shared in honesty and with a caring heart and now the information is out there for those who would like to try vitamin C in all forms for their animals. I have not made claims that it will work positively to cure FeLV cats in all cases but have very specifically stated that I don't know what the response would be for cats that are well into the disease process with bone marrow involvement, though I sure intend to find out once we recover from the financial burden of the last three sick cats and their treatments. With the alternative being certain death, my question is, "What compassionate, thinking pet owner would deny an animal a chance at life because he or she "did not believe" that something would work?" My vet has now done three clinical trials with three successful outcomes. Had I been skeptical and waited for published clinical trials, all three cats would now be dead. I lost a kitten in November to FIP because we did not use the correct IV ascorbate protocol and because he was perhaps too far into the disease process to be brought back. Do I wish that I had never discovered or used the vitamin C protocol because my heart was crushed over the loss of him? Of course not, for because of what I learned with him we were successful in saving his sister. Every day she is a living reminder that his death was not in vain, and I will never stop trying to save the ones I can with this protocol because I know it works and it's really all I have. It seemed logical to me that others would appreciate the opportunity to hear of and try this for the animals they love as well, regardless of where or who it came from. Waiting for conventional medicine to understand or embrace this science is costing animals (and humans) their lives but nothing says that their owners and caregivers cannot. We are not talking about an "ordinary" vitamin as most have come to consider vitamin C. The majority of the world's population has no clue about how far-reaching and powerful ascorbic acid truly is for destroying viral and bacterial infections and also reversing heart disease, and how very critical this substance is to human and animal life. While it is tremendously helpful with the common cold virus, this is quite honestly the least of the diseases it can cure. However, the low U.S. RDA for vitamin C is killing human beings one by one, and because our "domesticated" cats and dogs make too little vitamin C and get little to none in their food, it is also killing them. We owe it to them to become educated about this and take action. Clinical trials cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and though NIH funding continues on a broad scale for other less serious diseases and conditions, the NIH has twice been petitioned for and twice denied a grant for funding for such clinical trials of the Pauling therapy for heart disease, the leading cause of death in this country. It's really not hard for the thinking person to do the math and figure out why. The research is indeed being "quashed" and the biggest business to benefit is the pharmaceutical industry. The science behind the power of vitamin C for reversing disease in humans and animals is sound and predates World War II. Other veterinary clinics are using intravenous vitamin C with the same types of success that we have seen, and owners are taking their pets to them for treatment from across the U.S. With a little effort these clinics can be located and contacted for additional information or treatment. In closing, to those of you who might - by some miracle after the negative light cast upon it - still be considering the use of vitamin C therapy for your companion dogs and cats or rescues, the most important thing I can tell you is to be broad-minded about what this acid can do for animals (and humans) in its various forms and what diseases it can treat, some of which are outlined in Dr. Belfield's paper at http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/197x/belfield-w-j_int _assn_prev_med-1978-v2-n3-p10.htm. Don't be afraid to try because you have never heard about it, because there have been no "clinical trials," or because you're afraid to get your hopes up only to have your heart broken if it doesn't work. Your heart will be broken anyway, time and again, as more cherished animals succumb to the ravages of these diseases while you stand helplessly watching. The choice would seem a simple one, regardless of one person's opinion otherwise. Sally Snyder Jewell www.SallysCatHouse.com (perhaps this signature will better qualify me to post here) _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
