Hi everybody,
Angie is about 75% back to normal now. Her leg is still a bit weak but atleast she can hop and jump upwards a small distance. Better than seeing her depressed, suicidal, and no will to move eat and drink.
What I did in the end was to give her baby food (because I was on a very tight budget), force feed her, pamper her, and gave her my full attention every waking hour and when I'm not at work. But the main thing I did was to take her for ACCUPUNCTURE!! (hi Patrick, I forgot to give you the details of the place today at your store again. Just remembered when I talked to your assistant.) So if your chin is unfortunate enough that it needs accupuncture, the details are as follows:
1) Go and get a referral to the accupuncturist (for small eg chins to medium animals eg big dogs at:
Mount Pleasent Animal Clinic
232 Whitley Road
Tel: 62508333.
You'll have to pay for the consultation fee (I forgot the price) in order to get the referral.
2) After they approved that you'll need the referal, you'll choose the time to go in for accupuncture either on a Wed or Sat. ie you've to make another trip.
The accupuncturist is a very respectable and knowledgeable person, Dr Oh Soon Hock. He works in the Singapore Zoo and uses Mount Pleasent animal clinic on wed and sat as the premisis for accupunture. He is also a biological scientist like me!!!
But needless to say he's on a higher level than me. I paid about $85 inclusive of GST per session. (This price was in Oct/Nov last year.) Each session is about 15mins.
He is one fantastic shi fu! He was explaining a bit about his craft as an accupuncturist and the pressure points and his occupation as a researcher in the zoo. I kinda hope that he gives classes on animal accupuncture but I doubt he gives classes or takes on students.
3) If you are very very desparate, he does home visitations too. I don't know the price he charges for home visitation. You can call him on 9 6636183 (This HP is on his name card.)
I could only take Angie for 2 sessions within 2 weeks partly because of the price but mainly because of the distance. I live on the edge of Singapore in an inconvenient place called Punggol so the taxi fare is a real killer. Total cost per session + travelling cost me about $130. By right I'm suppose to take her there twice a week and at the worst once a week. Other stuff I did at home was to very gently stretch her leg and massage the joint every single day. Then finally after weeks of pampering and spoiling her, she survived. Not many chins or humans for that matter get to go for accupuncture!!! What a spoilt little brat! But I love her (and my other chin Taylor) to bits so it definetly was money well spent.