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From: "Shari & James Nadal" 
To:
Subject: distemper
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 23:37:15 -0700
X-Priority: 3
Hi Ed, this is Shari Nadal, I wrote to you almost 3 years ago
about our dog Buddy and never did get around to sending you his
picture. I just realized by reading the letter I wrote to Dr.
Sears and sent to you that it is almost exactly 3 years that Buddy
has been a part of our family and he's doing great. He has no
health problems (except for some seasonal allergies) or any signs
at all he was ever as sick as he was. I just wanted to send you
a photo of him taken today. He looks a little freaked out but
that's only because he couldn't quite figure out what I was trying
to do in getting a good picture of him! He's a happy, healthy
boy thanks to Dr. Sears. I don't have a before photo, Dr. Sears
took one, I'll send this photo of Buddy on to him too for his
records. Thanks again for your website, I don't believe Buddy
would be with us today if we hadn't found it. Shari Nadal
From: "james&shari" janshan@prodigy.net
To:ed@edbond.com
Subject: our dog's distemper cured
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 01:46:04 -0700
Hello Ed Bond, thank you for your web page, we recently found
it very helpful as you will read below! I was going to write a
separate letter to you, but this is the one I sent Dr. Sears and
it seems to say it all. I apologize I don't have any photos developed
at this time to share, but if you'd like to post our letter on
your web site, please do and as soon as we get a photo we'll send
it to you.
James and Shari Nadal
Hello Dr. Sears, this is coming from James and Shari Nadal who
brought you our Austrailian Shepherd Buddy in last week. I know
my husband called and let one of your staff members know our name
and that Buddy has seemed to fully recover. I just wanted to give
you a little more detail and thank you for taking the chance in
treating him. I was so excited after seeing you but so guardedly
optimistic, I knew Buddy had been sick for a long time, but we
saw some glimmers of improvement after just 12 hours. By 24 hours
you could hardly tell he was sick and by 48 hours he was like
a new dog. It's been a week now since he received the treatment,
he had his last day of antibiotics yesterday, he still was having
a small amount of nasal discharge until a couple of days ago,
but that is gone now too. Best of all, whatever it was that was
causing him to limp in his back leg is gone, he seems to be having
no problems with it at all. He was so underweight when we got
him and it did not seem like he gained any at all during the almost
4 weeks we had him, but since receiving the serum he looks like
he's put on 5 pounds. (we're not positive, but we believe he weighed
about 30 pounds when we brought him home and he weighed 35 at
your clinic, so he may have gained some weight, but it just wasn't
noticeable at all until this last week) Though we had him for
almost a month, it feels like we're just getting to know him now.
Our dog, whose nose we wiped, and didn't play, and walked around
with his tail between his legs for so long now fetches (we didn't
think he knew how to do that!), he greets me happily when I come
home at night, he plays, he steals our kids toys, and most impressive
of all, he walks around with his head held high, his ears perked
up and alert, and he carries his tail like a flag behind him.
Up high and curled, it's a beautiful sight to see. As soon as
we get a good picture of him we will send it to you so you can
put it with his before picture, wow, what a change. We brought
Buddy home on August 3, 2001, you didn't see him until August
30th. Perhaps we were lucky, maybe his body was fighting it, maybe
not being a young puppy helped, we don't know if the limp was
related to the distemper or not, whatever the reason, Buddy seems
to have beat the odds. I remember you mentioning something about
an 80% success rate when you get later into the disease with your
treatment. I believe Buddy has made those odds.
Thank you so much. Gratefully yours, James and Shari Nadal
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From:
DawnHecht@aol.com
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001
Subject: A Great Big Thank You
To: edbond@mediaone.net
Hello Ed, I just wanted to write you a note to
say thank you for taking the time and effort to post all of the
information about Dr. Sears.
I live in Riverside, CA and have a 4 month old Aussie.
She came home from the humane society with Distemper and my vet
told me there was really nothing they could do.
I did not accept this and went on a hunt for more information...that
is when I found your site.
We took Cookie [pictured at left] to Dr. Sears and now she is fine.
Dr Sears is such a great guy...how do we get the word out to more
dr's? I am e-mailing Oprah!!! and everyone else I can think of!
Well, Thanks again- you can go to bed tonight feeling like a hero
because you literally saved my puppy's life!!!!!
Best Wishes to you and your family!
Dawn Hecht
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POSTED
2/9/2001 -- "Bailey was adopted from the Pensacola animal shelter in the
late summer of 2000. He was about eight months old. He seemed OK at the
time, perhaps a little scared or confused, but in less than a week he was
completely lethargic and could not even keep water down. My veterinarian,
Dr. Susan Wells of Lillian Veterinary Clinic in Lilian, Alabama, ran some
tests and diagnosed distemper. After finding your web site, I immediately
called Dr. Sears' office and requested a shipment of serum. We received
the shipment two days later and the vet administered it. In less than 24
hours, Bailey was eating, drinking, able to keep it all down and his bowel
movements were beginning to become more normal. We brought him home two
days later and he has been happy, healthy and full of energy ever since.
He is now a little over a year old and has gained 30 pounds since we first
got him six months ago. My vet and I truly feel this is thanks to Dr. Sears'
cure. We had tried everything to get him better, but nothing worked until
the serum. We were just ecstatic and ran around telling everyone we could
about Dr. Sears."
- Susan M. Kovacs
Elberta, Alabama
But one of Susan Kovacs' dogs we couldn't save. Distemper is
such a nasty virus because it can attack different dogs in very
different ways. Daisy
suffered the neurological attack first.
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1/30/2001
-- This is Bear, a
german shepherd mix rescued from a pound and is thought to be about
nine months old. Here's what her owners had to say:
"Thank You so much
for your story. Our dog Bear was diagnosed with distemper just a few days
ago. She has been having symptoms for about 9-10 days, all but the seizures.
My husband and I have been devastated since our regular vet told us about
this horrible virus, and we have been doing as much research as we can
to find out what we can do to fight it
"Despite the ritual
of antibiotics, vitamin C and vitamin B supplements, fluids and trying
to keep her appetite up, we have been watching Bear wither before our very
eyes. Her eyes were constantly squinting, no appetite, and her nose was
so dried up and clogged that she could only breath through one side. We
knew the seizures were coming, and soon.
"Sunday evening
my husband discovered your story by chance, in a last ditch effort to find
something, anything to save our beautiful girl. The thought of a cure being
5 miles away from our home seemed unbelievable! We knew we had nothing
to lose, so Yesterday morning we took Bear to Dr. Sears in Lancaster. He
took her in immediately, and my husband and I went home almost afraid to
even hope for a full recovery.
"This morning I
went to visit her first thing. When I saw Bear's face, I couldn't help
but cry. Her eyes are bright and wide open! And her nose is so much better,
she has no trouble breathing through it now. Her appetite is up and so
is her energy level. She still has a ways to go, but all this is after
just one treatment! This one treatment with Dr. Sears has done more than
an entire weeks worth of antibiotics. We can finally allow ourselves to
believe in a full recovery. I know that if we hadn't taken her, she never
would have had a chance. Distemper would have easily taken her life, like
the thousands of puppies before her.
"I can't wait to
see Bear tomorrow, and to be able to bring her home. Thank You again for
your story. You have helped restore hope for my husband and I, and save
the life of a precious friend."
Sincerely,
Monica and David Erlich
the_vw_girl@msn.com
Bear before
and after
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8/10/2000
-- This is Dot, who might be a Australian Shepherd - Corgi mix. She was
rescued out of the West Valley Animal Shelter at the end of July, and developed
the signs of distemper within a couple of days. Her rescuer, now
owner, Teresa, got her to Dr.
Sears in time, and Dot has recovered.
Here is Dot's story.
Part I - A Rescue with
distemper
Part II
- The results of the treatment
Part III
- More thoughts about Dr. Sears
"THANK YOU, so much, Dr. Sears! Thank you Ed Bond, and
Terri
Haase, for putting this important information out there for others
to find and hopefully, save their animals too."
rescuerama@hotmail.com |
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6/13/2000 -- This is Kassi, whose owner, Blake,
found my website only days after I put up these pages in May and
got her to Dr. Sears in time. A six-month old puppy, Kassi had just
been rescued from a shelter but quickly showed the early signs of
distemper, including a green mucous discharge from the nose.
"She is another success story for Dr. Sears," Blake [Resqpet@aol.com]
says. "He even has my vet's attention, he got some of the serum
for his practice. . .The titer test shows no signs of the virus
at all. Thank you so much for your site, it saved little Kassi's
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If you have a dog who has been saved by Dr.
Sears, please let me know. I'd
like to post other before/after
photos of distemper-surviving dogs and your comments on this page.
Main page for canine distemper
cure
ed@edbond.com
Dr. Sears email
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