The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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A real vet? Not from Iraq or a flea-bitten African merc? I'm honored haha. No really, I appreciate the advice, 9 years is getting on for a big dog, it's just the sheer abruptness of the transition from "as healthy as ever" to the situation he's in now that's painful.
I am aware of ultrasonic therapies for enhancing healing, not that I've ever seen them in practise, the main issue is simply finding a provider for my dog, humans hardly get them here in the first place.
The vet I saw said much the same thing regarding lifespan, I suppose I'm succumbing to the same urge I see in a lot of human patients, which is prioritizing aggressive intervention when something gentler might work too. On the topic of vets specializing in horses, sadly that's even less of a thing here since we don't have a recreational riding culture. Thank you for helping me out!
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