Such a smart and caring dog! She does worry about me a bit, but I think that dogs worry about us either way, so at least she can tell me that something is wrong and what to do about it.
Vision means I'm going to have a vision migraine blurry wavy vision and I shouldn't drive out do strenuous stuff till it passes, sometimes it makes me lose balance and get dizzy... Usually I get these with florescent lights in stores but today apparently it's just because I'm just going to have a migraine later, she will tell me as the visual problem arrives, and as the migraine gets closer and she becomes more insistent about it, about 10 to 20 min before I get it, which is perfect for me to take my meds. Love my girl, so glad you relearned all the smells to go with the words for me. It is so helpful to have you and makes my health bearable.
Here is another video of Ivy's alerts (this has information about female things if you don't want to watch or read on, but if you a guy with a girl you deal with it so shut up about it in the comments)...I have almost all my symptoms today super not fun but manageable with this hard working dog. The reason I asked about the one for my period twice is because I thought about it and she hit my hand after she had a think about it, so it was an alert and I wanted her to do it again just to verify. So I think I need a list because she knows a lot now so I get lost where I am in the line up. So the alerts she knows so far she has migraine, vision problems (which is wavy lines or heart beats in my eyes sometimes even loss of vision), heart rate over 130, allergic reaction, digestion problems, blood pressure high, blood sugar high, cysts on my ovaries(which I deal with with castor oil to dissolve them), my period (which she decided was important to alert for🤣 thanks girl), haven't had dissociation or panic attack in a while so I am sure she would know it was happening and be able to tell me and the other day I went threw my list of stuff and she said nothing after she said yes on her check(which is the there's a problem(s) so I can ask questions about my symptoms) I said well then is it something else and she said yes, well I just went pee so I ask her about it and she said my pee smelled off🤣 thanks Ivy. I've been taking garlic and new vitamins lately so probably that's why silly dog, but when it is your job to smell the smells about mom you notice changes. Love this dog so much she makes my life so much improved I can get the a daddy so much better with her helpful nose.
This is the not so awesome angle, but still can see a little bit, she alerted for Heart rate, blood pressure, migraine, allergic reaction, digestive allergic reaction and no for blood sugar. Will post the fallow up video of after my meds work in a little while.
So here she is alerting to my problems, she knows the difference in the words and I have another video but it is like her nose out of the screen but I will post it to because you can kinda see.. It goes threw all of them and you can kinda see her alerts she alerts for BP, HR, allergic reaction, and digestive allergic reaction sometimes she will alert to only digestive stuff. She nudges for yes on my hand for each problem I spent a little over a month retraining her because it was only a nudge for everything and I was just guessing based on the events from that day as to what was wrong. This is just like the buttons that dogs use to talk it is the same ideas but my hand and voice are the buttons eye contact (or sometimes ignoring for a 'no your good,' we are still working on it in high traffic areas) and nudge for a 'yes that's the problem you need to take care of.' she is so smart and so helpful she is pretty much only a clingy dog when I'm having something wrong and then she will finally alert after she verified that is the smell she is smelling she will alert for migraines up to 4 hrs before and the judging becomes more frequent and so I can gage how long I have she is getting better about waiting till it is a stronger scent... so I in most cases have about an hour and in this case it was only about 5 min because of my blood pressure raising from my allergic reaction from food someone was cooking in a building I visited today.
Playing with Berry the birthday bear
Happy birthday this is a home made allergy friendly treat, made with sweet potato, sun butter, coconut yogurt frozen in a cup cake silicone for her birthday pup cup.
Celebrating ivy's birth month... Not sure the day she was born on... Celebrating her birthday with a build a bear, this is her giving the little heart a kiss/nib nib❤️🥰 love this little dog!
For migraine alerts here is the process we go threw she comes tells me I take my meds, and we Wait about 10 min, you can see her alert goes from a hard judge to a soft nudge then no nudge and butt scratches for her reward and playing with a stick after the smell is all gone... My video was too long so this is kinda the middle and end, the begging when she came to get me was on a separate video I loaded already.
Ivy coming in to alert for a migraine... If she can't reach my hand she start whining till I get it if the area she can't reach me in.... Trying to load the second video of how she tells me the alert is over but we will see if it will load.
