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Please help us to raise £3232.00 towards Dylan’s corrective hip surgery of £6500.00, which is scheduled for 15th August. Dylan is insured with Pet Plan for £4000 a year, but we’re already into that figure. Dylan potentially has 10 years of life ahead of him, but without this surgery, we’ll be lucky to have him another year at the very most depending on pain management. Dylan has only just turned 4, and is so full of life, mischief and love!
Due to irresponsible breeding, I discovered after saving Dylan from a burst and rapid river, that later left me temporarily paralysed and in a wheelchair, and unable to talk from a ruptured brain stem, that Dylan had one of the worst cases of hip dysplasia, that my Vet, and ex boss (Affectionally known in our house as Wor Tim - Tim Pearson of Orchard House Vets) had seen. Dylan was just 9 months old.
We all want our dogs to live forever, and I can’t even begin to explain why I think I have the right to ask for help. But if you guys are fortunate, or maybe unfortunate to know us, you’ll know that this story is just the very tip of the iceberg.
I’m thankful to tell you that today, despite being massively misdiagnosed, I am upright and can walk short distances and I’ve most certainly regained my speech. I feel fortunate, if it can ever be described as that, to have found out about Dylan’s hip dysplasia early. You see, we are actually Dylan’s second but forever home.
Tim promptly referred Dylan to Moorview Referrals in Backworth. And we met with Jonathan Deacon, the Practice Director and Senior Orthopaedic Surgeon. He explained that Dylan had very under developed pelvic sockets that hold the hip joint in place, but working to build up the muscles surrounding his hips would help protect them. As well as using supplements such as YuMove, YuDerm and Rimadyl anti inflammatories. Dylan was booked in to have Hydrotherapy at Wear Referrals the morning of my big brain haemorrhage, so we didn’t make it, and thus started my almost 4 year recovery and rehabilitation, from an accident, I was never meant to survive.
My Neurologist said “your accident was a one in one million chance of happening, and you are a one in one million to have survived. I’ll never see another one of you during the rest of my career, neither will my predecessor, or my predecessors predecessor
.... I am that girl, I’m the girl that lived!
Dylan has since become my therapy dog. He hasn’t had any special training, he just instinctively knows. He first alerted people when I fell in the bathroom, when I fell down the stairs, and most importantly, he knows when I’m going to seizure. Dylan licks my face and nudges me during and after a seizure, he raises the alarm by barking for help, he’s even gone and fetched people to my aid when doors have been open etc
My motto since the accident we were both involved in, is This Girl Can, well today it’s changing to .... This Dog Can!
Please give as much as you deem fit, each pound collectively can make a great deal of difference.
From the bottom of our hearts - Thank you, you’re all PAWSOME! 🐾❤️🐾
#DylanTheVillain #ThisDogCan
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