Re: Miracles do happen....more

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Posted by Joey Buchan on October 22, 2000 at 15:48:40:

In Reply to: Miracles do happen....more posted by Danica on October 22, 2000 at 15:06:33:

What a GREAT story! I'm so happy to hear your Dozer is doing better. Keep us posted, ok? :)

This remides me of a story I heard when I first got our of High School and was working for a Vet. It seems that when the Vet I was working for was first starting out in the practice of Veterinary medicine, he worked for an older Vet, that didn't quite "have it all together". He tried his best, but it was just time for him to retire and he wasn't ready himself. Anyway, a family came in one day with a dog that had some sort of problem for which I can't remember. After the doctor examined him and told the family what was wrong, they decided to have him put to sleep. I think he was just a farm dog or a hunting dog or something...he didn't mean that much to the family. After the family leaves, the Vet takes the dog back and gives him an injection to put him down. Once he's down, the Vet carries him back and places him into a freezer where they kept the dead animals until someone came to pick them up to dispose them. He goes back up front to do some work and about an hour later he turns around and has the fright of his life because the dog is standing behind him! It seems the good doctor didn't give him enough of the "juice". He takes the poor dog back and tries again and again places him into the freezer. Sure enough, about an hour later the dog wakes up, forces his way out of the freezer and finds his way back to the doctors side! Well, this has such an effect on the man, he decides to do whatever he has to do to make the dog well. He performs whatever surgery or treatment that the dog needed and he ends of keeping the dog at the office as the office "pet". He stayed there for several years after that and lived a very happy life. They often called him the "miracle dog" because he sure didn't want to die and he didn't think it was his time to go! I know this doesn't have much of ANYTHING to do with Dozer or tortoises, but it's such a funny story (to hear my ex-boss tell it anyway) and I hadn't thought of it for so long, I just thought I'd share it here.

Thanks for reading! :)

Joey

: This is the story of dozer, my miracle baby. I hope this may help someone in the future.
: Last winter I was given a sulcata tort named dozer. He is 6-7 years old now. About 1.5 years ago dozer ate bricks in the former owners back yard and they did surgery to remove them. They knew something was wrong because his penis was prolapsed. So last winter dozer came to live with me. He spends his winters in my kitchen with the family. He follows me around and we eat banana's together for a treat. I have become very attached to dozer over the past year, he's like a second child. Last tuesday morning, I was sitting here doing homework and dozer defcated and his penis was prolapsed again. I called the vet. The next morning they did x-rays and said that they didn't see anything that he had eaten. Wheeww was my thoughts because dozer had been at reptile day at school on monday and it was possible that he could have picked something up. So he ran blood tests and they showed nothing so he took more x-rays and he saw something this time. It was something metal about 1 1/2 inches long 1/8 in. wide. I was sick, he had to have surgery again. Friday was the day for surgery. I couldn't eat nor sleep because my baby was going to have surgery again and I couldn't be there with him. So Friday I went in before he had surgery and visited for a long while and then went home to wait by the phone to hear how it went. The call came in at around 5:30 it was my vet. He told me Dozer didn't make it through recovery and that whatever he had eaten was about ready to pass, it was in his feces. I was crushed, my heart sank. I ask the vet to have him ready in the morning so I could bury him properly. So, I sat in the kitchen where dozer stayed and cried then realized I couldn't be home right now so I left and went to greave for my lost family member. When I finally arrived home, there was a message from the vet that dozer, after hours of looking dead, had woke up. He was in fact alive!!! I couldn't wait to call the vet the next morning. When I finally got ahold of him he confirmed that dozer was alive again and explained that is was hard to hear a heart beat on a tortoise and with him just coming out of surgery it was even fainter. He also told me that dozer could home which made my year. Although he may have to go see a specialist because we still don't know what caused the prolapsed penis, I still have my dozer. He won't be at anymore lectures either. I can't say for sure that is where he got whatever he ate, but I can ensure that in my kitchen he doesn't eat anything else. Never give up home people, miracles do happen. Dozer is my miracle baby.
: I would also like to thank everyone that supported dozer when he was sick, and those who supported his nervous mother too!!! You know who you are. Thanks for reading our story

:
: Danni and Dozer

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: : What a GREAT story! I'm so happy to hear your Dozer is doing better. Keep us posted, ok? :) : This remides me of a story I heard when I first got our of High School and was working for a Vet. It seems that when the Vet I was working for was first starting out in the practice of Veterinary medicine, he worked for an older Vet, that didn't quite "have it all together". He tried his best, but it was just time for him to retire and he wasn't ready himself. Anyway, a family came in one day with a dog that had some sort of problem for which I can't remember. After the doctor examined him and told the family what was wrong, they decided to have him put to sleep. I think he was just a farm dog or a hunting dog or something...he didn't mean that much to the family. After the family leaves, the Vet takes the dog back and gives him an injection to put him down. Once he's down, the Vet carries him back and places him into a freezer where they kept the dead animals until someone came to pick them up to dispose them. He goes back up front to do some work and about an hour later he turns around and has the fright of his life because the dog is standing behind him! It seems the good doctor didn't give him enough of the "juice". He takes the poor dog back and tries again and again places him into the freezer. Sure enough, about an hour later the dog wakes up, forces his way out of the freezer and finds his way back to the doctors side! Well, this has such an effect on the man, he decides to do whatever he has to do to make the dog well. He performs whatever surgery or treatment that the dog needed and he ends of keeping the dog at the office as the office "pet". He stayed there for several years after that and lived a very happy life. They often called him the "miracle dog" because he sure didn't want to die and he didn't think it was his time to go! I know this doesn't have much of ANYTHING to do with Dozer or tortoises, but it's such a funny story (to hear my ex-boss tell it anyway) and I hadn't thought of it for so long, I just thought I'd share it here. : Thanks for reading! :) : Joey : : : This is the story of dozer, my miracle baby. I hope this may help someone in the future. : : Last winter I was given a sulcata tort named dozer. He is 6-7 years old now. About 1.5 years ago dozer ate bricks in the former owners back yard and they did surgery to remove them. They knew something was wrong because his penis was prolapsed. So last winter dozer came to live with me. He spends his winters in my kitchen with the family. He follows me around and we eat banana's together for a treat. I have become very attached to dozer over the past year, he's like a second child. Last tuesday morning, I was sitting here doing homework and dozer defcated and his penis was prolapsed again. I called the vet. The next morning they did x-rays and said that they didn't see anything that he had eaten. Wheeww was my thoughts because dozer had been at reptile day at school on monday and it was possible that he could have picked something up. So he ran blood tests and they showed nothing so he took more x-rays and he saw something this time. It was something metal about 1 1/2 inches long 1/8 in. wide. I was sick, he had to have surgery again. Friday was the day for surgery. I couldn't eat nor sleep because my baby was going to have surgery again and I couldn't be there with him. So Friday I went in before he had surgery and visited for a long while and then went home to wait by the phone to hear how it went. The call came in at around 5:30 it was my vet. He told me Dozer didn't make it through recovery and that whatever he had eaten was about ready to pass, it was in his feces. I was crushed, my heart sank. I ask the vet to have him ready in the morning so I could bury him properly. So, I sat in the kitchen where dozer stayed and cried then realized I couldn't be home right now so I left and went to greave for my lost family member. When I finally arrived home, there was a message from the vet that dozer, after hours of looking dead, had woke up. He was in fact alive!!! I couldn't wait to call the vet the next morning. When I finally got ahold of him he confirmed that dozer was alive again and explained that is was hard to hear a heart beat on a tortoise and with him just coming out of surgery it was even fainter. He also told me that dozer could home which made my year. Although he may have to go see a specialist because we still don't know what caused the prolapsed penis, I still have my dozer. He won't be at anymore lectures either. I can't say for sure that is where he got whatever he ate, but I can ensure that in my kitchen he doesn't eat anything else. Never give up home people, miracles do happen. Dozer is my miracle baby. : : I would also like to thank everyone that supported dozer when he was sick, and those who supported his nervous mother too!!! You know who you are. Thanks for reading our story : : : : Danni and Dozer

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