Follow Your Heart: Navigating a Terminal Diagnosis

What is one of the most difficult things for any animal lover and pet parent to hear? Being told by the vet that your animal's illness is terminal. What do I do now? How can I best support my animal friend? What is the best way forward for our family? These are just a few of the many challenging questions that a terminal diagnosis raises. Author Gail Pope, President and Founder of BrightHaven Center for Animal Rescue, Hospice and Holistic Education, wrote this informative booklet to hold your hand and help you to navigate this path with a deeper sense of peace, confidence and clarity. Gail drew on her consultations with countless distressed caregivers who have reached out to her after receiving such a diagnosis for their animal."Follow Your Heart: Navigating a Terminal Diagnosis" offers practical advice for the caregiver, both for at the vet's office as well at home again with the family. With some guidelines from the BrightHaven perspective of living well each and every day, it compassionately addresses important considerations and options as the way forward is planned, and explores the possibility of hospice care and the natural dying process.The booklet does not support any specific methodology or belief, but simply shares some guidelines to help you make choices with awareness and with love. There's no one right approach or answer-it depends on many factors unique to each situation. BrightHaven is a pioneer and leader in the ever-expanding field of animal hospice, and Gail's experience with hospice-supported natural dying (she's been present at over 600 such deaths) is distinct and well known. Her work in the world of animal healthcare and hospice is widely acclaimed. She has an international consultation practice and is contacted by many vets and animal caregivers regarding BrightHaven's natural methods and protocols.