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Thursday December 9, 2010

Gem of the Day: No time for a gem today. Baby Furby's surgery is scheduled for tomorrow and we have raised only 640.00 of the needed $2000.00.
HELP.




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Dear Small Pawsers,

Welcome to our newest members of our Small Paws® Rescue Online Newsletter, especially to those of you who have seen us on Fox and Friends in New York City, or on Animal Planet on "Dogs 101."

Welcome! We hope you enjoy reading about the Bichons and the people who love them!

If you missed our last newsletter, here it is

Baby Furby is about 9 months old and he is presently being fostered with one of our Ohio Team Leaders, Sharon King, near Worthington Ohio.

He needs PDA heart murmur repair surgery before he goes into congestive heart failure because his heart is overworking and has grown to large for his chest.

Susan tells me we have raised only $680.00 of the needed 2000.00 for his surgery which is scheduled for tomorrow.

I don't want to have to postpone this as his cardiologists says Furby's heart is enlarged and he could start going downhill at any moment. He wants to go in now.

We still have these matching donation challenges for Baby Furby's heart.

As far as I know, none of them have been met yet.

If you can help baby Furby, this is how to do it.

If you can't help, please pray that someone is reading this who can. All My Love, Robin

First, from Sue Hodges in Southern California, we have this matching donation challenge. Thank you again Sue! Is there anyone who can match Sue? If so that will be $200.00 more towards the $2000.00 needed to save this little guys life.


Subject: RE: Jingles Update/ Baby Furby Needs a Heart!/ Penelope Story of Old
Date: 12/8/2010 11:11:38 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: sue.hodges@klgates.com
To: pup3@aol.com


Robin, Please issue a $100. matching challenge to help with Furby's surgery. Best of luck.

Sue

Sue J. Hodges
K&L Gates LLP <

And LIVE from Manhattan in NEW YORK CITY, we have this challenge from Deborah Berger and the now infamous Boris. Thank you both!


Subject: Re: Jingles Update/ Baby Furby Needs a Heart!/ Penelope Story of Old
Date: 12/7/2010 9:35:34 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: normetski@aol.com

Hi Robin,

Boris collected his Hanukkah gelt and would like to put a $100.00 challenge out to the furballs who are waiting on their Christmas gifts. Sometimes you just have to pay it forward. Deborah and the Big B.<

And what better challenge than one from an adoptive Mom of one of our Heart Babies whose life was saved by all of you.! Thank you Jackie for issuing this challenge!

From: jrichard2012@aol.com
Sent: Wed, Dec 8, 2010 4:55 am
Subject: Baby Furby

Hi,

This cold morning I read about Baby Furby's heart issue. I got on the heart reunion page to see what was written about our Pansy SPR, who had heart surgery two years ago! The initial outlook wasn't totally optimistic, so I am super happy to say her outlook for Christmas 2010 is GLOWING! If she could speak she would say Thank you!! So, with our fingers and paws crossed for this baby, we would like to issue a $50 challenge for Furby's heart surgery.

Keep up the good work, Jackie Richard>


And from Claire, the lazy quilter we have this challenge for $25.00! Thank you Claire!


Subject: PAW PRINTS ON MY HEART
Date: 12/6/2010 1:14:05 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: lazyquilter@verizon.net

Dearest friends that I haven't met yet. But you all know who you are. Christmas is coming, but all of my children and grand children are over 21 yrs of age.. that makes me.. old.

Susan, all of us are running on fumes, we all know that. But do we really need to spend that much more on grand children? They're not going to know who gave what anyway. So please issue a $25.00 challenge.

To all a Good Night, and as they say in the military, everyone comes back to table for a meal. As for Small Paws and other rescues, again from the military.. every morning we wake up, it's boots on the ground. May God help us as we try so hard to "bring" these little ones to a loving home.

hugs
Claire with Tatter & Junie>

And we have this challenge for $35.00. Thank you Melissa!

From: "Melissa" <darred29@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 7, 2010 9:47 pm
Subject: Jingles Update/ Baby Furby Needs a Heart!/ Penelope Story of Old

Dear Robin,

Buffy needs to take a medication every month now, and it cost $35 a month, so please issue a matching challenge of $35 for Baby Furby. Thank heavens for Dr. Nguyenba!

Blessings,
Melissa Swoager<

And one new one from Jim Jorgenson. His last challenge for Chester was never answered. Is there someone who can match Jim? (I don't want him to get a complex here..ha..)

Subject: Fwd: Challenge for Chester's Surgery
Date: 12/9/2010 12:58:59 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: Onejorgy@aol.com
To: pup3@aol.com

Robin

Yes. If Chester's challenge was not met, then please issue my challenge for $100 for Furby's surgery. I'm so glad that Chester is doing well. Now it is time for Furby to excel. And thank you for all that you do.

Jim

See vet bills paid for the first 6 days of December totalling $4, 323.50.
Actually our mail came late yesterday and Dave Hagadorn had already done these bills by the time we got our mail. The rest of those vet bills will be paid next week. (We made sure that none of our volunteers are waiting for reimbursement)




See Vet Bills Paid Last Monday Night by Small Paws® Rescue in
November of 2010 totalling $37, 368.90 /

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From Robin:

If you don't have time to read the rest of this, this is the short version. I'm going to be ok regarding recent findings about my thyroid! Thank you for praying for me!

The results of my eight thyroid biopsies just came back as BENIGN and THANK YOU JESUS!

If there if going to be some rare medical thing, you know that I'm going to be the one with it. (That's because I'm special I guess. Some people would say "weird", by I digress.)

The endocrinologist believes that I have something called "Seasonal Thyroid Something" (the "Something is something that I can't remember, and maybe that's a symptom.. not being able to remember the name of your diagnoses, but I digress again.)

It's basically when your body flip flops from making to much thyroid hormone to not enough, coinciding with the seasons, yet your body reacts as if it is hypothyroid, which means it acts like it's not making enough thyroid, all year round.

So is that clear as mud?

I have four cold "nodules", growths, two on each side of my thyroid gland, and all of them, even the largest one he was most concerned about, are benign, but he does still want to shrink them. In order to do that I will begin taking a synthetic thyroid hormone replacement.

Then I'll go in after 30 days to check blood levels to make sure it's the right amount.

Here is more about what I have. Life is good! Thank you for praying for me! I love each one of you! Robin

Change of Seasons

Many thyroid patients aren't aware that TSH can change along with the seasons. The research shows that TSH can naturally rise during colder months, and drop to low normal or even hyperthyroid levels in the warmest months. Some doctors will adjust for this by prescribing slightly increased dosages during colder months, and reducing dosage during warm periods. Most, however, are not aware of this seasonal fluctuation, leaving patients increasingly hypothyroid during cold months, or going through warmer months more hyperthyroid. This seasonal fluctuation can be more pronounced in older people, and in particularly cold climates.

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Humphrey Sisco
Dec 26, 1993~ Aug 30, 2006

When I first saw this beautiful picture of Cheri Sisco's "Humphrey", I thought it was truly the epitome of what we do, and why we do it. I wanted to use this black and white picture of Humphrey, taken only days before his death due to congestive heart failure, to let those who may be new to Small Paws, know what we do and why we do it. Without Small Paws, Humphrey would have never known love. He would have died in a kill shelter, sick and alone. Because of Small Paws, and Cheri Sisco, he lived, he loved, and he smiled.

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