“Get the baby gate!”  We scurried, but the pup waddled right over to our Great Dane and crawled on his head.  He had entered our home and our lives with the aplumb for which he would be known.  Once trim and sassy, he would boom out his beagle bay, and I was so proud.  Dexter’s days went by and he grew old, with all the physical ailments that entails.  My vets and I, one Eastern, one Western, poured over possible replacements, because I was moving to Charleston.

“Go with her, she knows Chinese herbs well, and has had good training,” one vet told me, and that is how we met Dr. Ruth Roberts.  We came to Charleston, and Dexter found a corner in Dr. Roberts’ office where he was comfortable.  And then I was amazed.  Everyone came to his corner – he didn’t go to a table.  During that first session Dr. Roberts spent two hours with Dexter, gracefully bridging between Western and Eastern medicine, giving him a physical, giving him acupuncture, prescribing Western medicines and Eastern herbs.  We also received his well-loved crockpot diet.  Dexter improved steadily and now is receiving non-invasive laser treatment – in his same corner, of course. Once again we go beagling around and there is often a spring in his step.  I believe Dr. Roberts and her staff have added time to Dexter’s life.  Good time.  They will never know just how grateful I am for that. Karen Reidy Mt. Pleasant, SC