Moon Dog Gems

✨ Hey y’all… I’M BACK! 🌙🐾

After taking a little time away, Moon Dog Gems is back with a fresh start and a few changes! I’m keeping things simple and focusing on my handcrafted lotions and sprays for now!

🌸 BIG NEWS! Our sprays are getting an upgrade from 2 oz to 4 oz bottles! That’s DOUBLE the goodness and more bang for your buck!

✨ Love a fragrance? Every available scent can be made in ANY of our products! Mix, match, and find your favorites! Find a full fragrance list on Etsy’s pinned section.

Same love, same beautiful fragrances, just doing things a little differently this time around.
Thank you for sticking around! 💕

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Hey friends 🤍
I’ve missed you…truly.

This season of life has asked me to soften and simplify, and I’ve been listening. I’m not gone… just moving in a way that feels a little more manageable right now.

Moon Dog Gems is still open, just in a gentler way, and for now I’m focusing mainly on:
🌿 Moon Drops, my signature lotion beads
🌿 All-space sprays; Acts as a room spray, linen spray, and/or body spray (while supplies last).

Still clean, still pet-friendly, still made with so much love, just honoring where I’m at.

To celebrate this beautiful Spring we are in, I’m offering 30% OFF my ENTIRE Etsy shop through June 🛍️ Candles, lotions, spray, chapsticks, jewelry and healing tools all still available.

Thank you for sticking with me, supporting me, and loving Moon Dog through every season. It truly means more than I can ever say 🤍

❤️ your Mama Moon Dog
Kyndal

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Today I celebrate FND Awareness day! 6 monrhs ago my life was forever changed , I was diagnosed with FND & PNES and now relearning how my body works, every day since.
The more awareness we have the better the treatment. If you have FND or know someone who does, then you know how hard it is to get the correct treatment. No one wants to help you bc they just dont know how, it’s very sad and sometimes very discouraging. Even theough pur daily steuggles we srill have to hold our heads high and get theough the day, the hour, the minute.
Please help Spread the word to spread awareness, this is a very real disease that needs much much more awareness!

Happy to be a part of a great giveaway by Farmhouse Chiropractic!

Hey y’all,
if you’ve seen my last couple of posts, you know life has thrown me a major curveball. I was recently diagnosed with a neurological disorder, and it has put an unexpected pause on my ability to pour candles, make lotions, or do the day-to-day work I love so much. For now, Moon Dog Gems has to slow down — maybe for a few months… maybe much longer. I’m taking things one gentle day at a time while I focus on healing and recovery.

Because of this, I’m doing a major closeout sale to clear the shelves before I temporarily shut everything down: 20%–40% off the entire site, until everything is gone.
With the holidays here, it felt like the perfect way to clear shelves and let folks grab gifts they love — stocking stuffers, teacher gifts, self-care sets, all of it. ✨

I also want to say THANK YOU! Truly, for all of your love and support over the last almost 6 years. I couldn’t have made Moon Dog Gems into what it is without y’all: your orders, your shares, your messages, your excitement, and the way you’ve loved my products and my animals right alongside me. This little dream only grew because you helped me grow it.

Many people have asked how they can support me during this season, and since I’m not a GoFundMe kinda gal, I’ve added optional donation buttons on Etsy for anyone who wants to help with unexpected medical expenses without needing to buy product. No pressure, no pity — just love exchanged in whatever way feels right.

Your support right now means more than you know. Thank you for helping me, help you help me… in the most Moon Dog way possible.
I love y’all so much, and I’m hopeful for what comes next. 🖤🌙

💗 Kyndal

MoonDogGems - Etsy Shop Non-toxic, Eco-Pet friendly goods handcrafted on farm by MoonDogGems located in Altoona, Florida.

Hello my people!!!!!
First of all I want to THANK every single one of you that have been praying, sending light and love, getting in touch with David when I couldn’t respond, researching your little heads off and just being there. Whether you were holding my hand or loving me from afar, I felt every single one of you and I truly feel as my life just leveled up with God at the wheel! I mean did I ever truly think I as in control to begin with….It’s laughable now.
Now by seeing me, at this moment, you may not feel this way. You may look at me and say, “You’re happy about that!?” ABSOLUTELY! The things I’m capable of have even surprised ME!
I also wanted to give my sweet Boop a break and allow his phone to not be ringing or dinging 24/7, so I want to update y’all on what’s been going on.
I will try to keep this short although hard bc it’s a VERY long confusing, drawn out diagnosis. If anyone has any questions please feel free to message me. I feel everyone should know about this bc of how sudden it came on and what I have to live with moving forward. Maybe with this post, I help someone understand their symptoms or diagnosis and can get their ball rolling a hellavu lot quicker than mine and maybe less painful too.
I’ll be honest I don’t even know where to start with this journey because looking back it’s been a long one, leading into this or that, sn*******ng like a Goliath ball of STRESS, collecting everything in its path. I knew I needed a break, but I had candle event after candle event. I even got my product into 3 stores! I wasn’t even able to share that with anyone yet. I had triggered heart issues that turned out to be nothing, Ibut when they were happening thought I was having a heart attack. They put it off to a gallbladder attack, it wasn’t that either. I was given panels, labs, scans and even had an ER visit. Everything literally came back clean as a whistle, everyone calling me a Super Hero on paper bc I had a “clean bill of health” through cardiologist and gastro.
But wait I’m still having symptoms…okay it’s just perimenopuase then. The symptoms were the same pretty much.
My body felt alien to me as “the change” happened but I had been going through this for the past year, why is everything happening now? And why was everything intensified? hmmm…

I was getting headaches almost daily, my body temperature would not regulate having hot flashes while still being cold, insane irritability and exhaustion. Like exhaustion I have never felt in my life. I was under a ton of stress with shows and the stores, being a farm mom, a wife, a bonus mom/gram gram, being a good friend/therapist, adding more and more and more to my plate. Digging up s**t from the past to help others with their present with nowhere to stuff it back into. Chronic hip pain. Ringing in my ears was intensified. Feeling every bit of it. Praying through it. Body feeling it. Head feeling it. Chronic pain. It all came tumbling down…but I still didn’t even know what I was actually putting my brain through by overloading it with that much stress. And no matter what I did, it just got worse. And what did I do? I JUST KEPT GOING…putting even more on my plate so I didn’t look “lazy”, or unworthy or whatever stupid feeling I thought was going to validate me. Sigh.

Fast forward to Monday, October 13. Splitting headache rolled into tuesday. Worst hip pain of my life. Migraine by Wednesday. Tried to treat it. Wouldn’t go away. Ended up in ER that night as I started mimicking a stroke, losing vision, tremoring and having seizures.
y’all I’ve never had a seizure in my life. So this turned pretty scary.
Fast forward 6 hours in ER, diagnosed with Hemiplegic Migraines with Aura.
4 more days this migraine took over. I sat in the dark, ice packs all over my face, hurting the most I’ve ever had a migraine hurt. This one was different though.
Oct 20- Rushed back to ER after trying to help our situation by ourselves since my Primary care turned me away after being one minute late….after all… they have a policy!!! Again laughable bc they make you wait! I ended up having seizures in every doctor/naturopath office I went to that day.
Ended up admitted for 10 full days. Ran almost every test you think they could. We had to push for several very obvious tests, bc of the farm. And a few they just would not test… yes 10 full days in a hospital being poked prodded then bruising from all of the blood draws, having no use of your body the way you’re used to, a lot of times not being able to speak, remember, see, walk, or stand. It kind of gets to you after a bit.

A lot of tests were ran; panels, labs, scans, X-rays. I even had a lumber puncture and blood patch test done. All of the main diseases that this was mimicking; Lymes disease, Epilepsy, Epstein bar, toxoplasmosis, blood clots on the brain, were tested. There were a few like I said, they just would not test.
Thankfully my husband was the most wonderful ally and advocate for me, every single day pushing for every little thing, butting heads, putting up with a lot of s**t to get me an answer, sleeping with me sometimes so I felt safe and always there when I woke up!

10 days at the hospital. We left with not really any kind of answer as to why I dropped to my ass in the middle of my field, lost vision, had seizure upon seizure and had loss of all motor function. This was awesome. 😞

I was able to see a Neurology specialist since my discharge, thank goodness and was able to get somewhat of a diagnosis from her.
Are we ready?

Drum roll please……
The diagnosis (so far) is…..FND (Functional Neurological Disorder) within PNES (Psycogenic Non-epileptic Seizures) with hemiplegic Migraines with Aura along with an optic neuritis behind my left eye!
I do have a couple other things she’d like to have looked at but may or may not play a part in this, or it could be its own entity.

So I have some text down below if you’d like to read more on it, bc some people are very interested in it. Some probably haven’t gotten this far but I don’t care. If I can help even one person then I’ve done something. This disorder is a pretty hard one to diagnose bc it mimics so many other neurological disorders and diseases, it use to be called Conversion Disorder. So I’ve been doing all my research I can but right now it’s very hard to read and write. It’s really pretty crazy, when you read about it how the brain and body just disconnect. Like the brain went on vacation but only for a few body parts & parts of the brain.

It’s been an extremely humbling experience. God and I are tight now I tell ya and my whole life has changed in the past month. Like I said, I should have not loaded so much on, but I truly didn’t know. This was going to happen at some point to me, I literally handed the perfect storm over to it and it took me down. I am just so grateful it happened where it did, while David was with me and in front of the right doctors to get things moving quicker than they would have if I were just a walk-in patient to a new clinic.

So y’all Please, don’t take anything for granted, I’m serious. Words you say…Reflect before you react
The people you hang around…are they toxic? BYE!
Overload of stress….is it really THAT important? NO!
Work…you’re replaceable, you can work yourself into the ground for your job and the second they see fit you could be gone without a second thought…think about what you actually prioritize in life.
Have a partner you rarely talk to bc of social media, cell phones, tv, etc? PUT IT DOWN and get to know each other again.
Spend time with your kids. Be thankful for the people you choose to have by your side. Have people around you that will advocate for you when you cannot speak. That will hold you up and make you comfortable when you have no idea what’s happening to you. Will feed you with airplane and vroom vroom sounds as the bus goes into the garage! (Yes people had to feed me but we made it a memory we wanted to remember).
Make good things out of hard things. And first things first, have a relationship with God, preferably an honest one…he WILL give you the world but you gotta let him have the reigns!
God showed me some pretty crazy stuff in that hospital bed and I couldn’t be more grateful I put everything in His hands.

So what does life look like for me moving froward?
I have been home about 5 days now. I’ve had some seizures with medication but we have found that other natural ways work better so we are leaning on that right now.
I am in recovery In a healing process. But this is a disorder that does what it wants when it wants. There is treatment through a crap ton of intensive therapies but no medication. David and I are finding our own path in the middle of this journey and I feel blessed to have the neurologist I have and the team of doctors/naturopaths we are building to work through this diagnosis.
I am learning how to walk on my own again, as of now I walk with a cane and look like I’m boogie-ing to some pretty groovy tunes with my tremor moves and shakes. My speech has resumed mostly all the way, when I get overstimulated I do have tremors and lose some words in my speech but I AM healing. I have to take it super easy, as even just ”pimp walking” across the barn takes it all out of me and I go straight into a nap.
So there will be healing and recovery, it will take time and literal baby steps and in due time my goal is to dance with David again without having assistance. I have a lot of goals but I also have to remember this was God’s way of telling me to knock it off and take a mother trucking break!!!! God has a weird way but man it works! So learn to listen y’all!So within that Moon Dog Gems will be put on hold I’m not sure what my future looks like with the shop at this point as Im taking it one tiny step, one day at a time. And God is in control so🤷🏻‍♀️

Alright so, thanks for reading this, if you got here. At this point I’m just taking time for rest so my recovery does not turn back into the actual situation again. I’m here. I’m healthy. I’m alive. I‘m positive and still got my sense of humor.

Thanks again you guys. You have no idea what it feels like to have complete strangers checking in on you daily and sending flowers, soft furry animals to snuggle as I missed my babies so much and just being with me through spirit or in the room. You guys really lifted me in there And I Love y’all

I knew I needed a break from work, from the farm, from people and a lot of other things but I kept going. I kept giving. I kept hurting. I just kept on doing it all and still taking on more. Well when God says it’s time to stop he’ll make you stop whether you know it’s for the best or not. This time God stepped in and said, That’s absolutely enough. And boom gave me a debilitating disorder where now I couldn’t do anything. So now 22 days later I am taking a break. I am relearning the true value of what matters most in MY life. I will no longer bend in ways that weren’t meant to be bent into, in the first place. I will recover. I am retiring and I am leveling up. Just need some space for a while so I can spend all of my energy recovering.
I always welcome Prayers from you@all! I can feel each and every one of them. With time and God I will come out of this on the other side stronger, healthier and more fierce than anyone has ever seen.
I can’t wait to meet her, she’s in there I just have to find her again. Please pray y’all. I love you! 💕🙌🏼🧸

I have no clue what I’m doing but I’m glad someone has so much more for me